Quick Takes
Freakonomics Radio crunches homerun stats for its ‘Marketplace’ debut
Freakonomics Radio, a new co-production featuring journalist and Freakonomics co-author Stephen Dubner, unveiled its biweekly segment for Marketplace yesterday. The topic for ...WMFE plans two-week furloughs after membership and underwriting don’t meet goals
WMFE/Public Media for Central Florida is instituting two-week furloughs for all 35 staffers, reports the Orlando Sentinel. Also, there’s also no raises this fiscal year. ...KETC/Channel 9 to become Nine Network of Public Media
CPB President Pat Harrison will be in St. Louis on Oct. 12 as KETC/Channel 9 unveils its new brand identity as the ...Pubaffairs anchor departing Arizona Public Media for local radio
Bill Buckmaster announced Tuesday (Oct. 5) that he is leaving his the Arizona Illustrated anchor chair after 23 years on Arizona Public Media. His ...Survey explores whether public wants to have public-funded media
Is public funding of media a good idea? That’s what Spot.us, an open source project to fuel “community powered reporting,” wanted to ...NPR’s Twitter audience: 30-somethings who get their news online
NPR’s Twitter followers are “gadget hounds” and “news junkies,” according to survey results released last week by NPR Research. Of the 10,244 ...Partnership between Miami Herald and WLRN going strong after seven years
In the Miami Herald today (Oct. 3), Executive Editor Anders Gyllenhaal updates readers on its collaboration with WLRN, pubradio and TV for south Florida. ...Racy postcards in Mr. Hooper’s store? Who knew?
Writer David Fagin doesn’t quite understand the furor over pop star Katy Perry’s bustier on Sesame Street. He worked for the show several years back and reveals ...Craigslist founder predicts that NPR will be reporting powerhouse
NPR will be a dominant force in media in 10 years because its membership-based funding model is “finely tuned to the ...FEMA approves new emergency alert protocol; stations have 180 days to update
The Federal Emergency Management Agency on Thursday (Sept. 30) adopted the new digital message format for the Common Alerting Protocol standard, reports ...Potential LA-area consortium stations meet
Execs from the four Los Angeles-area PBS affiliates considering a collaboration met Wednesday (Sept. 28) to discuss a restructuring plan, according to ...PBS North to premiere mental-health series tonight
An ambitious 18-part series of call-in shows on mental health premieres tonight (Sept. 30), produced by WDSE/WRPT PBS North, serving northeastern Minnesota ...STEM Collaborative joins four pubTV stations in middle-school work
Four pubTV stations are joining in a STEM Collaborative to help middle-schoolers in science, technology, engineering and math, the stations announced today ...Still no decisions for New Jersey Network
New Jersey Network staffers, state officials, professors from Princeton and Rutgers, civic and union leaders and viewers and listeners spoke Wednesday (Sept. ...PBS, other broadcasters suing TV programming provider ivi
Several major broadcasters, including PBS, and other content providers filed a lawsuit in New York federal district court against ivi TV on ...
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