Quick Takes
“New media” should have a new name by now
Had enough of “hyper local” “citizen journalists”? Knight Digital Media blogger and news consultant Michele McLellen has. Those are the two phrases ...One new programming choice at KCET “will not win a lot of fans,” critic predicts
Will Los Angeles viewers looking for news coverage on KCET really be interested in “traditional Korean wedding ceremonies, the finer points of ...Newspaper’s Haiti footage grows into pubTV documentary
Two Florida newspapers, an indie filmmaker and WPBT2 in Miami are joining to present “Nou Bouke: Haiti’s Past, Present and Future,” an ...KQED to pick up two coverage areas lost by KCET’s departure
KQED is enlarging its coverage area to include San Luis Obispo and Santa Maria, Calif. In a statement, the station said the ...APTS promotes Lonna Thompson
Lonna Thompson has been promoted to executive vice president and chief operating officer of the Association of Public Television Stations, APTS announced ...“This American Life” invades the Great White North
This American Life, the wildly popular pubradio show hosted by Ira Glass, is going international: It will be heard on CBC Radio One this ...Marketplace and KCET are collaborating on simultaneous radio/TV special
Marketplace from American Public Media and KCET’s SoCal Connected are partnering on a program that will run simultaneously on radio and TV. The special report, ...Indie KCET’s channel moves off VHF on two cable systems
Two California cable systems have shifted Los Angeles’s KCET from its VHF position into the harder-to-find digital tier, now that the station ...Writer disputes that Masterpiece downsized “Downton” because its plot would “baffle” Americans
“Downton Abbey”, premiering this week on Masterpiece, will be a slightly shortened version of the British Edwardian hit. Its original episodes, which aired ...Roger Ebert selects replacement co-host for Elvis Mitchell
Chicago-based blogger Ignatiy Vishnevetsky will be Christy Lemire’s co-host of Roger Ebert Presents at the Movies, which debuts Jan. 21 on nearly 200 PBS ...Classical South Florida to acquire WXEL in West Palm Beach
Barry University has applied to the FCC to transfer its pubcasting station WXEL in West Palm Beach, Fla., to American Public Media’s ...Journalism prof joins Ohio University station as interim director
Ohio University pubcaster WOUB is welcoming a journalism professor as its interim director and g.m., as part of a push to integrate ...Open Mobile Video Coalition brings aboard electronics manufacturers
The Open Mobile Video Coalition has expanded its membership to firms other than broadcasters for its new OMVC Mobile DTV Forum. Dell, ...Hey, WOUB, remember this?
OK, we just could not resist sharing this, although longtime staffers at WOUB in Athens, Ohio, may be annoyed. Or mortified. This ...Frustrated with politics, longtime producer is departing “Left, Right and Center”
Sarah Spitz, producer of Left, Right and Center at KCRW in Santa Monica, Calif., is leaving the show after 15 years. “This was a ...
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