Quick Takes
As clock ticks, Native groups ask FCC for more time
Native Public Media and the National Congress of American Indians are warning the FCC that many tribal licensees may be unable to ...Republican lawmakers preserve most funding for SCETV
South Carolina ETV avoided steep funding cuts last month as the state’s Republican-controlled legislature thwarted Gov. Nikki Haley’s attempt to eliminate two-thirds ...Grants bolster Native radio program services
Two foundation grants will back capacity-building for Koahnic Broadcasting Corporation, the public media nonprofit that operates KNBA in Anchorage, Alaska, and produces ...NPR, PBS focusing on corporate sponsor opportunities, mag says
Public broadcasting “has proved helpful to a growing list of advertisers across multiple categories,” according to a story today (July 11) on ...Two managers out at Nightly Business Report
Two longtime top newsroom managers are gone from Nightly Business Report in Miami. Managing Editor Wendie Feinberg and Rodney Ward, executive vice president of ...Blog chooses CPB’s Harrison for weekly honor
CPB President Pat Harrison was recently selected as “People’s Hero of the Week” by the Broadband and Social Justice Blog from the ...“New U” entrepreneur fellowship program opens
Applications are now being accepted for the latest round of the New U: News Entrepreneurs Working Through UNITY fellowship, a competitive ...Arizona PBS teams with Nightly Business Report for Phoenix bureau
Nightly Business Report has opened a Phoenix bureau in partnership with Eight, Arizona PBS. Ted Simons, host of the station’s Horizon current-events show, will lead ...Sprout channel plans “Kindness Counts” anti-bullying effort
Sprout, the children’s TV partnership of Sesame Workshop, PBS, NBC Universal and HIT Entertainment, is launching a multiplatform initiative in August, “Kindness ...KEET scores grants for unique doc that uses Japanese woodblock animation
KEET-TV in Eureka, Calif., one of the smallest stations in the pubTV system, has received two grants for its documentary, J.A. JIVE: Jazz ...Public TV’s DNA may keep it from jumping into local news coverage, Grossman says
Lawrence Grossman, PBS president from 1976 to 1984, tells the Columbia Journalism Review that the educational roots of public TV stations, as extensions of ...KCET gets funding for online/on-air arts show
KCET-TV just received a $206,300, two-year grant from the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors for a new arts series titled ARC, reports ...Pubcasters continue fight for vital PTFP funding
NPR and the Association of Public Television Stations haven’t yet given up on the Public Telecommunication Facilities Program, which was shut down ...The project that almost got away
In an excerpt from NPR Media Correspondent David Folkenflik’s book Page One: Inside The New York Times and the Future of Journalism, Knight Foundation ...WTMD launches social network for exploring Charm City
Baltimore’s WTMD 89.7 FM and Urbanite Magazine teamed up to launch The Great Baltimore Check-In, a web-based city-wide networking game that mixes ...
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