Quick Takes
ivi TV gets help from unexpected allies — four public-interest groups
An intriguing alliance has formed among ivi TV, the brash startup that’s selling Internet access to specially encrypted TV signals, and four ...Journalists should join the fight for Net neutrality
What does a free and open Internet mean for the future of journalism? Quite a lot, writes Kat Aaron, a journalist with ...WTTW’s “Grannies on Safari” hosts hope to escape Egypt today with tour group
Regina Fraser, co-host of Grannies on Safari, says the group just heard from the U.S. State Department today (Feb. 1) and is standing by ...Discussions bubbling up between nonprof news orgs, commercial TV affiliates
Nonprofit news entities are beginning to explore the possibilities of partnering with commercial broadcasters. NBC agreed to have at least five local ...Penn State pubcasting produces video on tactics for reacting to gunmen on campus
University licensee Penn State Public Broadcasting has produced a video advising Penn State students how to react if faced with a gunman ...Ebert’s new show finally arrives in Seattle
PBS member station KBTC in Seattle/Tacoma is picking up the new Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies. Why is that news? Because some local viewers were mightily ...Al Jazeera English still on in U.S. despite Egyptian turmoil, distributor MHz reports
MHz Networks is alerting its 31 pubcasting affiliates nationwide that the shutdown by the Egyptian government of Al Jazeera’s bureau there does ...If you didn’t attend Sundance, “storyfication” is the next-best thing. Sort of.
Did you miss the Sundance Film Festival Jan. 20-30 in Park City, Utah? Yeah, us too. Fear not, ITVS social media wizard ...Guam PBS audit by government agency sets goal of transferring to community licensee
Guam’s Office of Public Accountabilty has released an audit of PBS Guam (PDF) that sets a longterm goal of converting it to ...Tony Geiss dies at 86; longtime Muppet composer, lyricist and creator
Tony Geiss, composer and lyricist for Sesame Street for almost 40 years as well as a creator of several Muppets, died Jan. 21 in ...Signal expansion delays and disappointment in Tampa
Problems with signal interference from the U.S. Coast Guard’s emergency communications system has stymied launch of Tampa’s new full-time classical music service, ...Future of “Need to Know” uncertain; PBS says it’s “evaluating the series carefully”
PBS has not yet decided whether to renew WNET’s newsmag Need to Know, which replaced Bill Moyers Journal in May 2010 (Current, March 22, 2010). PBS said ...Exclusive content deal for Center for Public Integrity
The Center for Public Integrity, the nonprofit investigative news center helmed by public radio veteran Bill Buzenberg, has a new contract to ...UPDATE: Pubcasting travel show hosts caught in Egypt leading group of tourists
The hosts of WTTW’s nationally syndicated Grannies on Safari are in the midst of the chaos in Egypt, where protestors demanding the resignation of President Hosni Mubarak have been ...Weiss’s departure from NPR, reexamined
Why exactly did NPR President Vivian Schiller tell her Senior News V.P. Ellen Weiss to resign or be fired? According to the ...
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