Quick Takes
Vocalo blogs shifting to WBEZ.org
Robert Feder, media blogger on Chicago Public Radio’s Vocalo.org, writes that its blogs are taking “a short break” and will return in ...Sesame Street via Christopher Street?
A Twitter from Sesame Street’s Bert, longtime pal of Ernie, prompted Sesame Workshop to declare that, no, the two are not gay. In Bert’s ...College students to accompany Freedom Riders for 50th anniversary trip as part of outreach
American Experience’s “Freedom Riders” doc is giving 40 college students the chance to ride along with the civil rights activists on the route of ...ivi asks for change of venue in ongoing fight to stream TV signals, including pubcasters
In a U.S. District Court filing in New York on Friday (Oct. 22), ivi TV asked that the case against it by ...CPB’s Boles talks digital pubmedia innovation at FedTalks 2010
Rob Bole, CPB’s v.p., digital media strategy, spoke on “Public Media in a Digital Age” Oct. 12 at the FedTalks 2010 confab. ...Seven ITVS films heading to prestigious film fest
The Independent Television Service (ITVS) reports that seven of its productions have been chosen as official selections for the 23rd International Documentary ...NBR partnering with Planet Forward on environmental programs
Planet Forward, a multimedia environmental innovation project at George Washington University, will be collaborating with Nightly Business Report to develop environmental programming, NBR has ...Tomlinson now favors defunding CPB
Ken Tomlinson, the former CPB chair who was forced off the board after campaigning secretly and successfully to get two weekly political ...NPR fires news analyst Juan Williams
NPR fired news analyst Juan Williams late yesterday over comments he made about Muslims during an Oct. 18 appearance on Fox News. ...Vegas PBS wins TOBY Award for unique green station and building management
The Vegas PBS Educational Technology Campus has been awarded the Outstanding Building of the Year (TOBY) Award in the Earth category by ...Ebert selects WTTW to record his latest series
The new Roger Ebert Presents At the Movies will be recorded at WTTW, “returning to the roots of Roger Ebert and Gene Siskel’s original Sneak Previews ...Got a phone? Got NewsHour
Don’t lose this number — 712-432-6610 — because that’s yet another way to get PBS NewsHour. The show announced today (Oct. 19) that the audio is ...LOL, it’s the Pledgecats
Here’s a quirky and hilarious pledge idea. By now you may be among the millions of fans of Lolcats, the silly “kittehs” ...FAIR examines pubcasting in latest issue; NewsHour, Need to Know lack diversity, it says
The November issue of Extra! from FAIR (Fairness and Accuracy in Media) takes on public broadcasting. There are stories on how the system ...KCET “has a chance to redefine” local broadcast media, analysts say
Two high-profile public media analysts are enthusiastically in KCET’s corner after its decision to depart PBS membership. “KCET now has the chance ...
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