Quick Takes
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Ladies and gentlemen: The Muppets perform “Bohemian Rhapsody.” (And doesn’t the green dude at 3:47 look like … Brian Williams?)WLIU breaks pledge record
Good news for Peconic Public Broadcasting, new owners of WLIU in Southampton, N.Y.: Listeners contributed a record total of more than $90,000 ...Talkin’ turkey, and other goodies
Thursday’s the big day, and while most of us are gobbling our holiday dinners at least a few pubcasters will be catering ...Gray heads in the pubradio audience, quantified by format
An analysis of aging among public radio listeners put numbers behind Garrison Keillor’s observation that every year there are more gray heads ...New PBS NewsHour brings on Web anchor
When retiring newsman Carl Kasell entered NPR’s broadcast booth in 1975, his voice went out over airwaves bounced across antennae nationwide to ...Kasell gets to sleep in, as of January
Longtime pubcasting voice Carl Kasell, 75, is retiring after three decades of rolling out of bed at 1:05 a.m. for Morning Edition, ...Sesame Workshop participating in president’s Educate to Innovate initiative
Sesame Workshop is making a $7.5 million investment in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics) education with its new Math is Everywhere initiative, ...Law professor working with pubcasters on plan for system’s future
A Rutgers law professor is getting input from NPR, PBS and CPB, along with independent media-makers and community activists, for a report ...Moyers’ Journal and Now will end in April
Bill Moyers will retire his weekly series at the end of April, at the same time its Friday-night stablemate, Now on PBS, ...At KCRW, Seymour sets retirement for February
Ruth Seymour, who built a successful but insistently idiosyncratic Los Angeles station and Internet music source with go-it-alone intuition, announced this week ...Google caption technology goes to PBS videos on YouTube
PBS is part of Google’s new initiative to make millions of videos on YouTube accessible to deaf and hearing-impaired users. The ...Native group and foundation present Indian Country tech report
Native Public Media and the New America Foundation’s Open Technology Initiative today released a study, “New Media, Technology and Internet Use in ...All this, AND Skip Hinton!
Details on most sessions at January’s NETA conference are now online. The confab is at the M Resort in Henderson, Nev., about ...Two PBS docs advance in Oscar race
Two pubTV films are on the short list for Documentary Feature Academy Award nominations, PBS says. Both docs, Food, Inc. on POV ...Former Tampa pubcaster heads online news venture
Another new media site has sprouted, this time in Florida, reports Creative Loafing Tampa Bay. The online paper, 83 Degrees, is published ...
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