Quick Takes
Board readies sale of KCSM-TV in San Mateo, Calif.
The licensee for KCSM-TV is preparing to sell the California public broadcasting station. The board of the San Mateo County Community College ...Ahoy, Capt. Clack!
Tom and Ray Magliozzi of Car Talk got out of the garage and headed for the Charles River for WBUR’s annual Spring Festival at ...WMFE-TV says its “cash reserves are limited” and delay in sale “would be devastating”
Orlando’s WMFE-TV this week said in comments to the Federal Communications Commission that a delay in its sale to religious broadcaster Daystar ...Looks like Maine pubcasters won’t be zeroed out of state budget after all
Maine Public Broadcasting Network got very good news late Thursday (June 9) when the state legislature’s Appropriations and Financial Affairs Committee voted ...Nashville Public Radio adds second channel; Vanderbilt dumps radio
As in Houston, a student station in Nashville will move from broadcast to the Web, and the local pubradio station has doubled ...Heads up, producers: Your annual Academy approaches
Applications are now being accepted for the 2011 Producers Workshop at WGBH, part of the CPB/PBS Producers Academy. It’s open to producers ...WHYY pulls out of the red into the black
WHYY overcame a deficit of $3.9 million to end the last fiscal year with a $1.7 million surplus, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. WHYY’s new ...“We must defend” public broadcasting, Moyers says
In an interview with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now!, longtime PBS newsman Bill Moyers sounds a warning. “Public broadcasting, which remains a place that ...94 percent of noncom stations air less than half hour of local news daily, FCC ...
“Information Needs of Communities: The Changing Media Landscape in a Broadband Age,” a report on the future of media in America from ...WLRN protests pubcasting cuts by ending state-funded legislative coverage
WLRN in Miami is dropping use of the Florida Public Radio Network in protest of Gov. Rick Scott’s decision to end all ...Bill on spectrum auction passes Senate Commerce Committee
The Senate Commerce Committee voted 21 to 4 today (June 8) to authorize incentive auctions to compensate broadcasters that give up spectrum ...Number of over-the-air TV homes grew over last year, new survey shows
According to research out this week from Knowledge Networks, the number of Americans exclusively using over-the-air (OTA) television broadcasting in their home ...Eshoo recovering from appendectomy
U.S. Rep. Anna Eshoo (D-Calif.), a longtime pubcasting champion on Capitol Hill, underwent a successful laparoscopic appendectomy at Stanford Hospital in Palo ...NewsHour, Chicago Tonight to work jointly on content using Joyce Foundation grant
PBS NewsHour and WTTW just received a $250,000, one-year grant from the Joyce Foundation to collaborate on coverage of Great Lakes region news. The ...Pittsburgh jazz fans object to WDUQ format change
A group of community leaders and jazz fans working to preserve music programming on Pittsburgh’s WDUQ, the NPR News and jazz ...
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