Quick Takes
WFCR secures AM outlet for its news expansion
Massachusetts station WFCR is buying WNNZ, a 50,000-watt outlet on 640 AM, and converting it into noncommercial operation, the WFCR Foundation announced ...“Think twice” before attending Oct. 30 rallies, Schiller tells NPR staffers
In a memo to NPR employees today (Oct. 13) posted on the Poynter Online Romenesko journalism blog, President Vivian Schiller cautioned staffers ...CPB’s Harrison expects pubmedia news coverage to “gore people’s oxen”
In an interview with the St. Louis Beacon, the nonprof news site partnering with St. Louis’s KETC, CPB President Pat Harrison makes ...LA Times TV critic ponders KCET’s fundraising future without PBS shows
“KCET is dead; long live KCET,” writes Los Angeles Times TV Critic Robert Lloyd in today’s (Oct. 13) column. He’s adopting a wait-and-see attitude ...President appoints “Takeaway,” Sesame Workshop contributor to financial board
President Barack Obama today (Oct. 13) announced his choice for appointments to several administration posts. Included is Beth Kobliner, to serve as ...Is an independent KCET an innovative concept, or doomed to failure?
Here’s an interesting exchange on the future of soon-indie KCET between Doc Searls, head of Project VRM at Harvard’s Berkman Center for ...Kling reveals his plan for regional news expansion
Just what does Minnesota Public Radio’s Bill Kling have in mind for the regional news initiative announced last month as his next ...Forty years ago: KPFT bombed off the air twice in its first year
Pacifica Radio’s KPFT in Houston “was the first radio station in the United States to be bombed off the air” in May ...How to use video games for more than fun
“Gaming for the Greater Good” is the intriguing title of the Wednesday (Oct. 13) webinar from the National Center for Media Engagement. ...First Core Publisher news site explores upstate New York economy
The first Core Publisher news site from Public Interactive is up and running to “rave reviews” from sponsoring station WXXI in Rochester, ...NPR study oversimplifies barriers to audience growth, Sutton says
NPR’s latest audience study provides good insights for promotion, marketing and multi-platform service strategies, but its recommendation that NPR adopt a less ...Radio K at University of Minnesota loses CPB funding
CPB has cut $50,000 in funding from the University of Minnesota’s Radio K due to low ratings, reports the school’s Minnesota Daily newspaper. Radio ...Ron Hull, still busy in pubcasting after 55 years
Here’s a tribute to public broadcasting at its best, through the experiences of longtime Nebraska Educational Television programmer Ron Hull, who just ...Knight News Challenge introduces new categories
The Knight Foundation announced four new categories for its next Knight News Challenge: mobile, authenticity, sustainability and community. Details at Knightblog and ...Four major pubmedia intiatives “suffer from similar limitations,” blogger writes
PBCore, Public Media Platform, Argo and American Archive: “One or more may rock our world,” writes Barrett Golding on Hacks/Hackers of the ...
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