Quick Takes
New first for NPR’s Andy Carvin: the Twitter interview
“[W]hat could be more dull than two Twitter geeks with their heads buried in their laptops as the interview subject patiently ...WTF, an insider’s emotional journey through world of comedy, comes to public radio
WTF with Marc Maron, a twice-weekly podcast that regularly ranks among iTunes’ most popular, has been adapted for public radio broadcast. The ...WDSC in Daytona may end PBS programming July 1, could close altogether
WDSC, the PBS affiliate at Daytona State College, is in jeopardy of closing, the local News-Journal is reporting today (May 19), further complicating ...Director experiences real Seoul at this year’s INPUT
“Four jam packed days, dozens of films, discussions, debates, brutal honesty, humor mixed with painfully serious subject matter, and a delirious evening ...Be More Award goes to Masterpiece’s Rebecca Eaton
ORLANDO — Masterpiece Executive Producer Rebecca Eaton is this year’s “Be More” Award recipient. Eaton has increased the icon show’s audience by 54 ...NewsHour’s O’Brien to conduct live Space Shuttle interview
PBS NewsHour science correspondent Miles O’Brien will conduct a live interview with Commander Mark Kelly and the crew of the Space Shuttle Endeavour at ...KCET plans on-air fundraiser for Japan disaster relief
KCET in Los Angeles has received a waiver from the Federal Communications Commission to air a live pledge show for Japan earthquake ...PBS Digital Learning Library graduates into larger LearningMedia
ORLANDO — PBS and WGBH today announced PBS LearningMedia, the next generation of the PBS Digital Learning Library. It’ll be a digital ...Education Department approves $27.3 million for Ready to Learn
Ready to Learn is safe. On Monday (May 16) the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and PBS expressed appreciation to Congress and the ...Australian newspaper hits back at ad breaks inserted into “PBS NewsHour” Down Under
ORLANDO — PBS’s intention to insert underwriting spots into programming on a test basis beginning this fall, creating major buzz at its National ...Surprise! Another GOP governor wants to eliminate state pubcasting funds
A proposal by Maine Gov. Paul LePage (R) to zero-out nearly $2 million in annual funding for the Maine Public Broadcasting Network ...PBS previews new primetime architecture for PTPA in Orlando
Programmers got a look at PBS’s new fall primetime architecture at the Public Television Programmers Association meeting taking place today (May 16) ...It’s in the New York Times, it must be true: Keillor is indeed leaving PHC
OK, it’s really, truly, finally official: A Prairie Home Companion host Garrison Keillor is indeed retiring. That’s what he tells the New York Times, anyway. “In ...WFCR takes new name: New England Public Radio
Western Massachusetts broadcaster WFCR-FM has adopted a new name — one that seems to speak of ongoing expansion: New England Public Radio. ...Onstage monologue goes swimmingly for Walters of “Radiolab”
The fifth issue of Pop Up Magazine — self-described as “the world’s first live magazine” — unfolded onstage in New York last night (May ...
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