Quick Takes
Roger Ebert: NPR is “the voice of our better nature”
Leave it to Roger Ebert to pen a love letter to NPR. The movie critic (and prolific blogger) today (Nov. 19) came ...Linda O’Bryon new president of South Carolina ETV
South Carolina Educational Television has hired Linda O’Bryon, former chief of content at Northern California Public Broadcasting, as its new president and ...Nielsen loses accreditation for 154 diary-only markets
The Media Rating Council, which ensures standards of audience measurement, has removed accreditation for Nielsen’s measurement of its 154 diary-only markets, retroactive ...PBS ombudsman wades into Fey fray
Producers made “a big mistake, one that was virtually certain to come back and bit them and PBS,” by editing out Tina ...Reps. Barton, Burgess request probe of NPR funding, Williams firing
Texas Republican Reps. Joe Barton and Michael Burgess have called for a Government Accountability Office investigation of NPR’s funding. In a letter ...Breaking news: House votes down attempt to kill NPR funding
The House of Representatives today (Nov. 18) voted down a move to defund NPR, in the first Republican-ordered floor vote since the ...Vegas PBS reveals specific per-viewer program costs for its new pledge approach
Las Vegas PBS/Channel 10 is handling pledge in a very different way this season. “We are the only station in the U.S. ...Letter writer hopes to rally community to receive PBS programming
In the midst of all the talk of defunding CPB, here’s a letter to the editor to boost your spirits. Reader Jon ...Fox News chief says NPR execs are “Nazis”
In an interview with Howard Kurtz of The Daily Beast, Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes unleashes on those who challenge the rightward ...FCC calls Tribal Issues Commission meeting for March in D.C.
FCC Commissioner Michael Copps, speaking to the National Congress of American Indians Wednesday (Nov. 7) in Albuquerque, announced a Tribal Issues Commission ...Lyle Lovett helps bid farewell to iconic ACL studio
It’s a wrap. After 36 years, Austin City Limits retired its legendary Studio 6A last week (Nov. 8) with a performance by Lyle Lovett, whose ...Order in the Court 2.0 gets two new staffers
WBUR’s Order in the Court 2.0, winner of a Knight News Challenge grant, continues to progress, reports MediaShift Idea Lab. Two new ...Noncom religious broadcasters say, what about us?
The National Religious Broadcasters group “suggests that the government turn its attention to the needs of a huge, underappreciated resource: noncommercial religious broadcasters.” ...GOP will force floor vote on defunding NPR
House Republicans announced today (Nov. 17) that they plan to force a floor vote on defunding NPR, The Hill is reporting. House GOP Whip ...Now online: PBS NewsHour Science
PBS NewsHour’s new science page went live yesterday (Nov. 16), with original reporting by NewsHour Science Correspondent Miles O’Brien, Digital Correspondent Hari Sreenivasan, Reporter/Producer Jenny ...
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