Quick Takes
Newly independent KCET invites viewers to “Rethink TV”
It’s 2011, and you know what that means: KCET is on its own, formally untethered from the pubTV mothership PBS. Here’s a ...WETA’s Bieber decides against previously announced move to Seattle’s KCTS
KCTS in Seattle now says that WETA producer Jeff Bieber will not be coming on as vice president of content, as it ...Wick Rowland is Denver Post’s TV person of the year
The TV critic for the Denver Post has selected Wick Rowland, president of KBDI/Colorado Public Television, as the local 2010 television person of the ...KCET creates Kids & Family channel
In 2011, KCET in Los Angeles will replace PBS’s famous children’s programming with a new digital family channel, as well as a daily ...“New York Street Games” on PBS gets nod as one of TV’s best in 2010
The documentary “New York Street Games” snagged a spot for PBS in the top 10 TV shows of 2010 as complied by New York Daily News ...Knight winner ponders lack of minority participation in ONA confab
2010 Knight News Challenge winner Retha Hill attended the Online News Association gathering in October in Washington, D.C., and found it valuable. ...WHRO helps blind listeners keep up with publications
The Hampton Roads Virginia Voice, a service of dual licensee WHRO in Hampton Roads, Va., uses more than 90 volunteer readers to ...NPR has become “Champale,” Shearer opines
“I think comparing NPR to the BBC is like comparing Champale to Champagne,” writes actor, satirist and KCRW’s Le Show host Harry Shearer in ...NPR lands in third place on annual PR blunders list
NPR’s handling of the Juan Williams controversy holds the No. 3 spot on the 16th annual year-end “Top 10 PR Blunders List,” compiled ...Nebraska pubTV crew endures challenging conditions in Antarctica
Think it’s cold where you are? A Nebraska Educational Television crew endured 35-degrees-below-zero temperatures when they shot Tuesday’s (Dec. 28) Nova episode, “Secrets ...MPT President Rob Shuman to retire in June
Robert J. Shuman, president of Maryland Public Television since 1986, announced last week that he’ll retire at the end of June. The ...KOCE’s 2011 schedule won’t include three longtime pubTV shows
KOCE, soon to be PBS SoCal, will not carry Independent Lens, Charlie Rose and Nightly Business Report as of Jan. 1, when it becomes the Los ...PBS favors East Coast’s “big three” shows over other stations’ programming, KCET execs say
KCET station execs told the Los Angeles Times that an institutional bias within PBS favoring East Coast stations marginalized its contribution to the system. ...Hallelujah! It’s a musical treat from NewsHour
Your Current blogger has been looking for the perfect holiday item for you, and leave it to PBS NewsHour to provide it: “Hallelujah! A Global Mash-up of ...University commercial station to go public in Georgia
Pending FCC approval, the University of Georgia will transform its commercial TV station WNEG to a public station to be named WUGA, the ...
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