Quick Takes
New York Post questions whether PBS should exist
“Move on, Big Bird,” insists a New York Post headline. It cites problems such as WNET’s recent federal investigation, then launches ...Charlotte PBS affiliate begins cutbacks in staff, programming
The slashing has begun at WTVI in Charlotte, N.C., after Mecklenburg County cut its support from nearly $860,000 to just $95,000, according ...Knight-McCormick fellows include four public broadcasters
Four pubcasters are among 20 fellows announced today (June 23) for the 2010 Knight-McCormick Leadership Institute hosted by the Knight Digital Media ...Yellowstone pubradio personality dies at 55
Lois Bent, a longtime voice on Yellowstone Public Radio, died June 15 after an 18-month fight against cancer. She was 55. According to ...WTTW honors John Callaway with fellowship
Chicago’s WTTW has created the John Callaway Excellence in Online Journalism Fellowship, the station will announce on this evening’s Chicago Tonight (June ...CPB Board gets reports on station collaborations at meeting in Beverly Hills
Among items on the agenda at the CPB meeting wrapping up today (June 23) in Los Angeles are reports on pubTV collaboration ...PBS’s satellite developer John Ball dies
John Edward Dewar Ball, who oversaw development of PBS’s first satellite-based programming delivery system and was an early supporter of closed ...WGBH helping Disney World visitors to “hear” the park
The Media Access Group at WGBH is providing audio descriptions of Walt Disney World for visitors with vision loss. A new palm-sized ...Half of testers use mobile DTV devices once or twice a day, comments reveal
The first reactions from consumers are rolling in from ongoing tests of mobile DTV in and around Washington, D.C., according to a ...FCC gathering tech experts for broadcast engineering forum June 25
PBS’s Chief Technology Officer John McCoskey is among speakers at the Federal Communication Commission’s upcoming broadcast engineering forum (PDF). The June 25 ...Washington State burg to get first locally produced pubradio station
A think tank in tiny Hoquiam, Wash., about 70 miles west of Olympia, has received a license from the FCC to create ...El Paso PBS station gets interim general manager
With the departure of g.m. Craig Brush earlier this month from PBS affiliate KCOS in El Paso, Texas, retired TV exec Dan ...New program delivery technology now in beta testing, after holdups
PBS’s Next Generation Interconnection System-Non-Real-Time Program File Delivery Project (NGIS-NRT) is back on track, after challenges including federal funding snags, a ...KQED producer blogs her Arctic journey
Gretchen Weber, associate producer for Climate Watch on KQED in San Francisco, is spending two weeks at Toolik Field Station, an ...Lack of vision hinders bringing in new pubTV viewers, experts tell paper
Crain’s Chicago Business today (June 21) takes a look into both WTTW’s current money woes and pubTV’s future plans. The Chicago PBS ...
Current is an editorially independent, nonprofit service of the American University School of Communication. We're funded by your subscriptions, your donations, advertising, and a generous grant from the Wyncote Foundation.