Quick Takes
Nearly 1,400 nonprofs and agencies manage access channels, project finds
Here’s the third update on Rob McCausland’s interesting Mapping Community Television project. (Here are parts one and two.) McCausland is director of ...WITF sings, “Go Public!” on its uber-catchy YouTube video
Central Pennsylvania’s WITF has released what may very well be the first hip-hop/bouncy pop/rap music video supporting Congressional support for pubcasting funding. ...Craigslist founder backs pubmedia funding
Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, posted a statement on his blog Tuesday (Feb. 8) in support of pubcasting funding. “I feel that ...Howard Hughes Medical Institute invests $60 million for TV science documentaries
The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, which has supported Nova, scienceNOW and science reporting on the PBS NewsHour, has announced a $60 million documentary film initiative “that ...FCC fines KCET $10,000, alleging public file access violations
The Federal Communications Commission is fining KCET in Los Angeles $10,000 for failing to make available the station’s public inspection file. The ...CPB looking for stations in communities with high dropout numbers
CPB has issued a request for proposals for stations to serve as hubs for Project 12: Operation Graduation. The $12 million dropout ...Minnesota Public Radio opens Washington, D.C., bureau
Minnesota Public Radio’s Washington, D.C., bureau is up and running, with Berlin-based former NPR reporter and editor Brett Neely as correspondent, says ...House member says Congressional funding to CPB is “critical”
Who’s in public broadcasting’s corner as funding cuts loom? Rep. Steve Rothman (D-N.J.), for one. On Tuesday (Feb. 8) he issued a statement saying ...New Jersey Network worth $51.2 million, appraisal for RFP’s says
The New Jersey Network of four public TV and nine public radio stations is appraised at $51.2 million in documents accompanying three requests for ...With help from Knight, Gotham Gazette provides online political funding tool
Gotham Gazette, a nonprofit news source funded by the Union Foundation, a good-government group that dates to 1897, has launched an online ...Research finds strong protection, autonomy in government-backed journalism overseas
In a new international study of public media systems in 14 democracies, two New York University media scholars find that many countries ...Mozilla gets $2.5 million from Knight for news technology fellows
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is providing open-source software pioneer Mozilla a $2.5 million grant to place technologists in newsrooms. The 15 Knight-Mozilla ...Sirius XM’s P.O.T.U.S. channel will now carry PBS NewsHour
PBS NewsHour will be heard on Sirius XM Radio’s P.O.T.U.S weeknights at 6 p.m. Eastern starting today (Feb. 7). P.O.T.U.S. is nonpartisan, 24-hour news ...Executive director stepping down from Latino Public Broadcasting
Patricia Boero has resigned as executive director of Latino Public Broadcasting, the organization announced today (Feb. 7), to spend more time in ...Roadshow’s Keno brothers now have their own furniture line
Leslie and Leigh Keno, the twin antique furniture appraisers on WGBH’s Antiques Roadshow, will debut their own line of furniture, Keno Bros., the week of ...
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