Quick Takes
Yoko Ono appears for PBS at TCA Summer Press Tour
The spotlight shines on PBS today (Aug. 4) and Thursday at the ongoing Television Critics Association Summer Press Tour at the Beverly ...High-stakes fundraising appeal for Long Island’s WLIU
Peconic Public Broadcasting, the nonprofit that mounted a successful bid to purchase WLIU from Long Island University last fall, is struggling to ...Newsical chairs in White House briefing room finally ends
Sorry, pubcasters, NPR has lost the Great White House Briefing Room Front-Center Chair Scramble of 2010. To review: Legendary newswoman Helen Thomas ...Schorr prize offered to rising young journalists
One of the legacies inspired by the late broadcast journalist’s career is the Daniel Schorr Journalism Prize, now seeking contenders for the ...WGBH chooses new broadband/interactive vice president
Alexis Rapo, formerly of Disney-ABC, began work today (Aug. 2) as vice president, broadband and interactive media, for WGBH, the Boston station ...Public Insight Network to be tailored for Spanish-speaking sources in Miami
The Miami Herald and WLRN-FM have joined American Public Media’s Public Insight Network, the citizen journalism system for tapping audience members as ...Look, up in the sky!
Three new Sesame Workshop series will premiere at MIPCOM in Cannes, France, Oct. 4-8, the Workshop announced today (Aug. 2). In the ...Rare Burns films available for pledge
PBS is offering two never-broadcast Ken Burns films for pledge about painter and spiritual teacher William Segal, the New York Times reports. The Segal ...Not our petitions, NPR says
NPR released a statement today (July 30) to Poynter Institute blogger Jim Romenesko, that it is “not involved in any way” with ...Dish Network finally inks pubcasting deal, just not with APTS
After the Association of Public Television Stations spent several years trying to get the satellite provider Dish Network to sign a carriage ...New York’s Thirteen to auction equipment as it prepares to depart building
More than 400 items from the offices and studios of WNET/Thirteen in New York are being auctioned off Aug. 3. The station ...Pittston, Pa., pubradio nearing return to the airwaves
WVIA-FM 89.9 in Pittston, Pa., will return to the air Aug. 3 after a $2 million fire five months ago completely destroyed ...International Sesame Streets now on demand through Amazon
For the first time, fans can watch individual episodes of Sesame Street‘s international productions via Amazon Video On Demand. Included are co-productions ...MHz develops social networking/learning site for the digital media industry
Indie pubcasting network MHz is partnering with IDMAonline on a new website that offers a “social learning network specifically for the digital ...Lehrer came into Emanuel interview with “pre-conceived notions”: CPB ombudsman
CPB Ombudsman Ken Bode faults PBS NewsHour‘s Jim Lehrer for “an opportunity lost and a lesson in what can happen when ...
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