Quick Takes
Days after KCET’s withdrawal from PBS, surprise and confusion
Although it had been negotiating with KCET for nearly a year over a dues disagreement, PBS was taken aback with the Oct. ...KOCE will step up to primary status in L.A. area, president Mel Rogers says
KOCE in Huntington Beach, Calif., will assume primary PBS station responsibilities in the Los Angeles area when KCET severs its ties with PBS, writes ...KCET to drop PBS membership Jan. 1
KCET, public television’s major station in the nation’s second-largest media market, is dropping its PBS membership as of Jan. 1, 2011, station ...WTIU’s ‘Friday Zone,’ a rare local kids’ show on pubTV, returns for 11th season
The 11th season of what may be the only locally produced kids’ show on public TV premieres today (Oct. 8) on WTIU ...NPR and AFTRA strike deal for five-year contract
At 5:15 a.m. today (Oct. 8), NPR and AFTRA (the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists) reached agreement on a five-year ...So far, no funding for station CAP updates, FCC official says
Lisa Fowlkes, deputy chief of the FCC’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau, addressed the upcoming station Common Alerting Protocol (CAP) update ...ITVS announces 12 films for its Global Perspectives Project
This year’s 12 selections for the Independent Television Service’s Global Perspectives Project tell stories in places as varied as Cambodia, Nicaragua, Iceland, Ethiopia and ...Hawaii PBS gets an especially touching donation
Leslie Wilcox, president of Hawaii PBS, blogs about a generous “major donor.”Tom Harkin: Senator, pubTV supporter, and now Super Reader
Sen. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa), on Wednesday (Oct. 6) was declared an official Super Reader during a visit to Marshalltown, Iowa, to honor ...Writers Guild wants Comcast to pay millions for pubaffairs programming via CPB
The Writers Guild of America East, which reps writers at several pubcasting stations, has written to FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski with a suggestion: ...Fred Rogers Co. gets Department of Justice grant
Lots going on at Mister Rogers’s production company in Pittsburgh. First, it’s no longer known as Family Communications Inc.; it’s now the ...10 stations come together to cover aftermath of Gulf Coast oil spill
Several stations have joined to continue coverage of the BP oil spill in the Gulf Coast region, WBHM-FM in Birmingham, Ala., announced ...PBS.org revamp is coming
The redesign of PBS.org will emphasize broadcast promotions, feature a “Today’s Video” clip for users to catch up on shows that have ...WNET employees get four-day holiday furlough
In a memo to staff today (Oct. 6), WNET/Thirteen President Neal Shapiro announced a four-day furlough for time during the week between ...Local control of pubcasting stations “profoundly important,” Kerger says
“Public Media in a Digital Age” was the topic of the panel discussion Tuesday (Oct. 5) organized by Free Press at the ...
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