Quick Takes
Kansas pubcasters get state funds for next fiscal year, but warning about future
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback signed a $13.8 billion budget Saturday (May 28) for the fiscal year beginning July 1, which includes $1.5 million in ...Phil Redo to oversee news and culture for WGBH-FM
The new managing director of news and culture for WGBH-FM/89.7 in Boston is Phil Redo. He’ll guide the overall strategy of the ...Time-shifted radio arrives with DAR.fm
Here’s a tantilizing development: a free TiVo for radio. That’s the promise of DAR.fm (for Digital Audio Recorder), a Web site that ...Public stations producing live webcasts from Primavera, Sasquatch Music festivals
Public media stations are producing live webcasts from two major music festivals this Memorial Day weekend. New Jersey’s WFMU returns to Barcelona, ...Supporters cheer as trustees approve new PBS station in Florida
After the University of Central Florida Board of Trustees approved the new WUCF-PBS on Thursday (May 26), “a small crowd at the ...Two Florida schools strike deal to bring PBS to Orlando via new station, WUCF-PBS
The University of Central Florida Board of Trustees today (May 26) gave its approval to become the PBS licensee for Orlando, the Orlando ...Florida governor eliminates public radio and television funding
Florida public broadcasters are reeling after Republican Gov. Rick Scott vetoed all public radio and television Community Service Grants today (May 26). ...WMFE Board hears opposition to sale
Eight persons showed up at a WMFE Board of Trustees meeting Wednesday night (May 25) to voice concerns about sale of the ...KCET raises more than $70,000 for Japanese disaster relief
KCET in Los Angeles raised $70,495 during its May 24 live televised benefit for Japan, 100 percent of which will go to ...Sale closes on Palm Beach’s WXEL-FM
Florida’s WXEL-FM, the public radio station that broadcast on 90.7 FM in Palm Beach, has been converted into full-time music outlet WPBI, ...“NBR” to air on SiriusXM radio each weeknight
The Nightly Business Report will be broadcast by SiriusXM nationally five nights per week starting May 30, the Miami Herald is reporting today (May 26). SiriusXM ...It’s official: Pittsburgh’s new pubradio FM to go all-news, jazz migrates to HD channel
Essential Public Media unveiled plans to operate 90.5 FM in Pittsburgh, the station now broadcasting NPR News and jazz as WDUQ, as ...Wisconsin cuts public broadcasting funding — then cuts some more
The Wisconsin legislature’s budget committee today (May 25) approved slicing an extra half-million dollars from an agency that helps deliver the broadcasts ...NPR Ombudsman: Criticism of Soros grant not confined to right-wing partisans
Outgoing NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard reviews the network’s decision to accept an $1.8 million grant from George Soros’s Open Society Foundations last ...KET pubcaster knows Oprah Winfrey as a doggone good host
All of America (well, nearly) is bracing for Oprah Winfrey’s final talk show today (May 25). But Bill Goodman, host of Kentucky Tonight on ...
Current is an editorially independent, nonprofit service of the American University School of Communication. We're funded by your subscriptions, your donations, advertising, and a generous grant from the Wyncote Foundation.