Quick Takes
Management may buy WXEL-TV
South Florida’s WXEL-TV/Channel 42 may be purchased by its current management for $700,000, the Palm Beach Post is reporting today (April 1). That’s “a bargain ...Orlando’s overlapped WMFE exits the public TV business, sells Channel 24
WMFE, the public TV and radio station in Orlando, Fla., said today (April 1) it’s getting out of the TV business and ...Cochran, Blumenauer named Champions of Public Broadcasting
Two longtime pubcasting congressional advocates, Sen. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.), will receive this year’s Champion of Public Broadcasting ...Largest Nova audience in five years for “Japan’s Killer Quake” episode
Nova’s March 30 episode, “Japan’s Killer Quake,” was watched by some 7 million viewers, based on Nielsen data from 49 metered markets — ...“Need to Know” drops anchor Meacham
Jon Meacham is leaving the co-anchor’s chair at Need to Know, and Alison Stewart will be the solo host, according to MediaBistro’s TV Newser ...Moyers may return to PBS in “Something Different”
Newsman Bill Moyers could be be returning to PBS, the New York Times is reporting. The Carnegie Corporation of New York’s board apparently approved ...PubTV, radio rake in Peabody Awards
Pubcasters won 18 of the 39 George Foster Peabody Awards announced this morning by the University of Georgia. PBS led the ...Layoffs, program cutbacks loom at South Dakota Public Broadcasting
South Dakota Public Broadcasting will reduce local programming and educational services and lay off seven of 57 employees as a result of ...KCET reportedly in talks to sell studio property to Church of Scientology
KCET is in negotiations to sell its Sunset Boulevard studios to the Church of Scientology, the Los Angeles Times is reporting. Real estate brokers tell the ...South Dakota Public Broadcasting shoots (video) and scores!
A South Dakota Public Broadcasting video has gone viral with more than half a million views, thanks to a spectacular heave-ho, half-court basketball ...Latino Public Broadcasting hires Sandie Viquez Pedlow as new director
Sandie Viquez Pedlow takes over as executive director of Latino Public Broadcasting on July 6, according to an announcement today (March 30). ...Economist editorial: NPR may be better off without federal funding
The debate over federal funding to public radio isn’t really about how the money is distributed, and how much local stations depend ...Red Green rolls on
How’d pubcasting fave Red Green come up with that name, anyway? “I was making fun of a guy who had a TV ...WQXR’s Limor Tomer departing for post at Metropolitan Museum of Art
Limor Tomer, executive producer for music at New York Public Radio’s classical station WQXR, is leaving to head up the Metropolitan Museum ...MacNeil returns to NewsHour for special reports on autism
Robert MacNeil, co-founder of PBS NewsHour, is returning to the show to present Autism Today, a six-part series on the disorder that affects 1 in 110 ...
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