Quick Takes
“Damn good schedule” at KCET, President Al Jerome says
KCET President Al Jerome continues to explain the station’s Jan. 1 departure from the PBS system. In the latest interview, in today’s ...Old “Electric Company” clip may just power up your sleepy Friday
It’s Friday afternoon, and you deserve a video break. Today’s feature is brought to you by BestWeekEver.TV, which serves up an Electric Company episode ...More pubcasting producers vote to join Writers Guild of America, East
Producers for History Detectives and America Revealed on PBS are among new members of the Writers Guild of America, East, the union said today (Jan. 28). The ...California Watch launches state investigative news network
California Watch, a project of the Center for Investigative Reporting, today (Jan. 28) announced its new California Watch Media Network, which includes ...Influential Ohio pubcaster Robert Smith Jr. dies; former “Washington Week” producer
Robert D. Smith Jr., a longtime public broadcaster who was an early producer of Washington Week in Review and oversaw the creation of two Ohio ...FCC chooses nine firms to oversee spectrum white-space database
A database of open channels, or “white spaces,” opening on the television spectrum for use by unlicensed devices, will be managed by ...PubTV systemwide initiative aims to invigorate station fundraising
CPB and WGBH today (Jan. 27) announced a two-year, $754,000 project to help stations improve their fundraising capabilities. The Contributor Development Partnership ...Twelve journalists receive reporting grants from the Fund for Investigative Journalism
The Fund for Investigative Journalism, through the Gannett Foundation and the Green Park Foundation, has awarded 12 grants to journalists for travel ...Spectrum auction bill could come back up today
Broadcasting and Cable reports that Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-W. Va.) is expected to reintroduce – possibly as early as today (Jan. 26) – a bill to authorize auctions to ...KUSF supporters rally at San Francisco City Hall
San Francisco Weekly reports that KUSF DJs, fans and Ross Mirkarimi, a San Francisco supervisor, rallied in front of City Hall yesterday (Jan. 25), ...APTS hires GOP lobbyists for pubcasting funding fight
The Association for Public Television Stations has hired two GOP lobbyists from Quinn Gillespie and Associates to help fend off proposals for public ...Idaho Public TV’s Morrill talks numbers with state lawmakers
Idaho PTV g.m. Peter Morrill appeared before state legislators today (Jan. 25) to detail what would happen if the governor’s proposed 6.4 percent ...“Waste Land” gets Oscar nod
The ITVS-supported doc “Waste Land,” by Lucy Walker and Angus Aynsley, scored an Academy Award nomination today (Jan. 25) for feature documentary. ...Steve Miller band, downtown party to open new Austin City Limits venue
KLRU is inaugurating its new Austin City Limits theater with a big bash on Feb. 26 in Austin’s 2nd Street District. The 2nd St. ...It’s half a century on the air for Eight/Arizona PBS
Eight/Arizona PBS is celebrating its 50th anniversary of going live on Jan. 30, 1961; by 1964 it had its first Emmy Award ...
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