Quick Takes
Indie pubTV channel devotes June to gay programming
MiND, the recent web-and-broadcast reincarnation of Philadelphia’s pubstation WYBE (Current, April 21, 2008) is devoting the month of June to special programming ...Go forth and fail — but be sure to share your experience later
“We don’t celebrate failure and we should,” writes the thought-provoking pubmedia guru Rob Bole in his Public Purpose Media blog. “We always ...Pending Kansas budget may slice pubcasting dollars by more than 50 percent
More than half of the state public broadcasting grants in Kansas will be gone if Gov. Mark Parkinson signs the 2011 budget ...Proffitt leaves KETC after two months
Pubcaster/blogger John Proffitt (see item below), who departed Alaska for KETC in March, has left the St. Louis station. He’d worked there ...Mobile DTV is DOA, pubcasting blogger opines
“I have nothing technically against mobile DTV,” writes pubcaster John Proffitt on his Gravity Medium blog. “It’s a significant achievement in that sense. ...PubTV tops cable, broadcast networks for Daytime Emmy nods
Public television has 52 Daytime Emmy nominations, more than any other broadcast or cable network. Nominees for the 37th annual honors were ...That PBS cap must be aerodynamic
This just in: Photographic evidence of PBS President Paula Kerger with her jaunty PBS hat powering toward the finish line of the ...Get out the duct tape, Red Green may be heading your way
Steve Smith, who plays the title character in The Red Green Show, never expected it to last more than one season. ...Washington Post’s Shales skewers debut of Need to Know
Tom Shales, the Washington Post’s vaunted TV columnist, is one of the few (if only) mainstream media writers so far to critique ...Summit takes up proposals for pubcasting reform
A white paper on the future of public media will help shape the discussion at the Free Press Summit, which kicks off ...PBS, NPR, SNL
In case you missed it, Saturday Night Live managed to parody both PBS and NPR programming within the first 30 minutes of ...Three icon series post double-digit increases in Nielsen ratings
The first-quarter Nielsen numbers that arrived recently at WGBH were surprising — in a very positive way. Antiques Roadshow, Masterpiece and Nova ...Need to Know creates need to vent for these pubcasting viewers
Lots of correspondence to the PBS ombudsman on the Need to Know debut, and “almost all” of it about the weekly pubaffairs ...Kerger conquers chilly, windy triathlon
How about spending a Sunday swimming 750 meters (half a mile), biking 18 miles and running 5K (3 miles)? That’s just was ...New Salt Lake City g.m. has grizzly reputation
When Mike Dunn takes the helm today at University of Utah’s KUED, he’ll probably be the first pubcasting g.m. ever to have ...
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