Quick Takes
Newspaper cites “Saddle Up” in tax-credit misappropriation case
Pubcasting show Saddle Up With Dennis Brouse is caught up in a tax-credit controversy, reports the DesMoines Register. The director of the ...Launch of Apple’s iPad is buzzworthy for NPR
Amid all the buzz over the launch of Apple’s iPad last weekend, the free app and specialized website that NPR created for ...Digital Distribution Fund grants again available
Round 15 is now open for Digital Distribution Fund grants from CPB. Funding for television transmission facilities, digital translator projects and digital ...AIRblast: an indie’s guide to pubradio distribution
Barrett Golding, producer of Hearing Voices, describes the ins and outs of public radio distribution in a two-part series for AIRblast, the ...Comcast triumphs over FCC in key net neutrality ruling
Comcast has won an important lawsuit against the Federal Communications Commission that may threaten its ambitious broadband agenda, reports the Washington Post. ...Moth Radio Hour returns with major foundation grant
The MacArthur Foundation awarded a two-year, $200,000 grant for production of The Moth Radio Hour, a series of live story telling performances ...A famous head, a lost mouth and the History Detectives
Thanks to PBS’s History Detectives, Andrew Jackson’s mouth will be returned to his head. It’s part of an upcoming episode filmed on the USS ...Home-brew beer law could endanger WYES fundraiser
WYES in New Orleans is fretting over how the pending Louisiana Homemade Beer Law will affect its long-running International Beer T asting, ...This Budd’s for you, but not for the CBC
CBC Radio has canned Barbara Budd, co-host of As It Happens — radio that’s too cheeky to be Canadian. She leaves the ...Connection to community important to “New Muslim Cool,” report details
“New Muslim Cool: Engaging Stakeholders in the Filmmaking Process” is the latest Public Media 2.0 Field Report from the Center for Social ...APTS names Thompson interim president
Lonna Thompson will serve as interim president and CEO of the Association of Public Television Stations in the wake of Larry Sidman’s ...Car rams through wall at WPBS in northern New York
WPBS in Watertown, N.Y., got a jolt early last Saturday when a car crashed through one of its walls, reports Newzjunky.com, a ...Take an afternoon music video break, courtesy of WETA
It’s cherry blossom (and pledge) time in Washington, D.C., and WETA is offering an e-card on its website to share a bit ...It’s a national nosh for POV’s “Food, Inc.”
Planning to watch Food, Inc., on April 21 on PBS? Great opportunity for a potluck, POV points out. It’s encouraging viewers nationwide ...Jaime Escalante dies; inspirational educator had PBS show
Famed educator Jaime Escalante, of PBS’s Futures with Jaime Escalante, died early yesterday morning, reports the Associated Press. He was 79. ...
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