Quick Takes
Roadshow scores highest-ever appraisal
Public TV ratings fave Antiques Roadshow recorded its highest-value appraisal ever on July 23 in Tulsa, Okla. Asian arts expert Lark Mason estimated that ...KCET briefly pulls ahead of PBS’s main station in L.A.
Though it now does without PBS programs, KCET briefly recovered its role as the most-watched public TV station in Los Angeles in ...Pittsburgh’s all-news startup gets an assist from CPB
CPB is backing development of Essential Public Media, the nonprofit whose purchase of Pittsburgh’s WDUQ is pending before the FCC. At the ...Juan Williams’s account of his NPR ouster hits bookstores today
Fox News analyst Juan Williams is back in the news — promoting his new book Muzzled: The Assault on Honest Debate, which ...PBS dishes up new food site
A preview version of the upcoming PBS Food website went online today (July 25), according to the PBS Station Products and Innovation ...Few pubradio licensees considering sales or mergers, survey finds
The vast majority of stations responding to the University Station Alliance’s most recent economic survey reported that they’re not likely to be ...Pre-Baroque deejay Robert Aubry Davis to do show in ladies’ housecoats
Robert Aubry Davis is not painfully shy. He does pledge breaks for Washington’s WETA-TV, after all. For the winter holidays, local media ...At 61, KCRW’s Diana Nyad preparing for record-breaking swim
Marathon swimmer and KCRW commentator Diana Nyad, 61 years old, is getting ready to swim for 60 hours over 103 miles across ...Lights. Camera. Help. festival in Austin spotlights cause films
Here’s a Q&A from KUT in Austin, Texas, with two of the creators of Lights. Camera. Help., who discuss the only festival ...Daily Show’s Jon Stewart: Here’s a real news media pile-on
In a retort to media critics who question news competitors’ motives in devoting so much coverage to the phone-hacking scandal that has ...V-me Kids now available on former PBS member station WIPR in Puerto Rico
V-me Kids, V-me’s cable channel for Latino preschoolers, is now running on WIPR in Puerto Rico, which just dropped its membership to ...Anonymous donors provide help to WHYY for NJN deal
At least two anonymous contributions are assisting WHYY in Philadelphia in its takeover of five FM stations from the NJN Network, reports Shore ...WXEL-TV terminates three employees; potential owners to launch capital campaign
WXEL-TV in Boynton Beach, Fla., has laid off three staffers, station President Bernie Henneberg told the Palm Beach Post Monday (July 18). The station ...Public Media Chat leaders Tweet a fond farewell
The hosts of Monday night Public Media Chats, who have been conversing with the system in 140-character bursts since February 2010, signed ...Flynn of MacNeil/Lehrer to join FORA
Rob Flynn, communications and marketing v.p. for MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, is departing after 11 years to accept a newly created position as sales ...
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