Quick Takes
House passes Continuing Resolution, zeroing out $460 million in CPB funding
At 4:30 a.m. today (Feb. 19) the House approved a huge package of spending cuts, slashing more than $60 billion that included a ...NBR hires Washington lobbyist
Nightly Business Report, acquired last year by businessman Mykalai Kontilai, has hired a lobbyist. Alan Rubin of Buchanan, Ingersoll & Rooney has registered with ...Haarsager takes on leadership of Public Television Major Market Group
Longtime public broadcaster Dennis Haarsager, who led NPR in an interim capacity prior to President Vivian Schiller’s arrival, is the new executive director ...Top 30 TV markets should provide enough spectrum space, new white paper contends
A white paper (PDF) presented this week to the FCC predicts there will be little need for spectrum givebacks outside the Top ...Does Tehran Bureau site have “stamp of approval” from PBS and Frontline?
PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler writes today (Feb. 18) on the Tehran Bureau, a news site founded in 2008 by Iranian-born and Massachusetts-based ...Jefferson Public Radio to renovate two historic properties in Medford, Ore.
The JPR Foundation, which supports Jefferson Public Radio in Ashland, Ore., has big plans – $7 million in big plans, to be ...How’s broadband availability in your community? Find out on the map
The Department of Commerce’s National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) today (Feb. 17) unveiled the first public, searchable nationwide map of broadband ...Obama budget signals priority for public broadcasting, new press secretary says
New White House Press secretary Jay Carney indicated that President Obama puts a priority on noncommercial broadcasting funding, reports Broadcasting & Cable. Carney called ...Both sides continue to speak out on value of pubcasting
Two more of the many opinion pieces circulating on public broadcasting funding: On the side of public media, WGBH President Jon Abbott ...CR amendment to fund CPB tossed out due to point of order
The amendment from Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Oreg.) restoring CPB funds to the Continuing Resolution under debate in the House was gavelled down ...FCC’s Genachowski won’t confirm voluntary spectrum auction in oversight hearing
Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.) told FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski that he has “some dark suspicions” that broadcasters may face mandatory spectrum givebacks ...Pubradio’s Alan Chartock speaks out against Republicans, specifically funding foe Lamborn
Alan Chartock, president of WAMC, Northeast Public Radio, takes on House Republicans in a strongly worded piece in today’s (Feb. 16) Huffington ...Arthur travels to Capitol Hill for press conference to rally pubcasting support
Seven Democratic House members were joined by the PBS Kids character Arthur in a press conference in the breezy sunshine outside the ...Groups announce 1 million signatures to save pubcasting funding
In the last four days, three progressive organizations have collected more than 1 million signatures opposing the GOP plan to defund public ...Mister Rogers goes to Washington, take 2
If you’re looking for a pitch for public media, marketer Izzy Smith points to an entrancing moment of political theater posted on ...
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