Quick Takes
If it’s Thursday, it’s Mailbag time
PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler is digging out from three weeks’ worth of letters and emails, and has come up for air to ...Tucson government channel and Arizona Public Media may merge
The City of Tucson is considering merging its government television station with Arizona Public Media, according to the Arizona Daily Star. The ...Blumenthal leaving New Jersey Network
The interim director of the New Jersey Network is departing as of Sept. 17, reports the Bergen (N.J.) Record. State lawmakers are ...Here’s a first: Berenstain Bears in the Lakota language
Twenty episodes of Berenstain Bears cartoons will soon air on South Dakota Public Television — in the Lakota language. The Associated Press ...KMBH in Texas declines to run Frontline Katrina report
The Brownsville Herald is reporting that Harlingen, Texas, PBS affiliate KMBH did not run Frontline’s “Law & Disorder” last week (Aug. 25), ...Static from classical listeners in KTRU deal
Indie rock college students aren’t the only Houston music lovers objecting to Rice University’s decision to sell KTRU, the Houston Chronicle reports. ...NH candidate wants end to CPB funding
It’s election season (it’s it always?) and one New Hampshire candidate is taking on public broadcasting. Republican Congressional hopeful Frank Guinta is ...PBS hires director for online giving
Keith Brengle, former director of online personals for AOL, is the new director of online giving for PBS, Senior V.P. for Development ...Innovators-in-Residence to work at PRI headquarters
Public Radio International (PRI) this week (Aug. 23) announced its new “Innovator-in-Residence” program, inviting technology and social media start-ups with a public ...Nothing like a punny pubcasting headline
Sure, this article is full of interesting stuff on the new Nigerian Sesame Street. But we have to admit that we posted ...Wit, wisdom and more than $1 million
Red Green (aka actor Steve Smith) continues to barnstorm across America, and has helped raise $560,000 for PBS stations so far, he ...UNC-TV reporter was “happy” with being subpoenaed, documents show
Documents obtained by YES! Weekly in Greensboro, N.C., reveal that reporter Eszter Vajda , at the middle of the Alcoa reporting scandal ...MHz teams up with Partnership for 21st Century Skills
MHz Networks has joined forces with the Partnership for 21st Century Skills (P21), a national organization that advocates for American schools to ...GPB gets its game on for high school sports
Georgia Public Broadcasting is kicking off a new division, GPB Sports, according to a statement from the network today (Aug. 25). GPB ...Passionate “Star Gazer” of WPBT dies at 72
Jack Horkheimer, an astronomer who created and hosted the weekly pubTV program Star Gazer from WPBT in Miami, died Aug. 20 in ...
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