Quick Takes
Pete Seeger connects with web visitors via PBS Engage
As promised, PBS Engage forwarded reader questions to folk legend Pete Seeger, and now presents the 90-year-old’s answers. Here he explains his ...WNED in Buffalo restructures top management
Big changes at WNED in Buffalo, N.Y., effective immediately. Dick Daly, former senior v.p. of broadcasting, is now senior consultant reporting to ...The difference pubcasting makes for a community in crisis
On a personal visit to the village of Yellow Springs, Ohio, CPB Ombudsman Ken Bode sat in on a live call-in show ...Today’s fascinating pubcasting factoid
Did you know that Jerry Carr, now president and CEO of WXEL in Boynton Beach, Fla., years ago broke his elbow falling ...Letting NPR raise money is a “no brainer”
This American Life raises money directly from its listeners, so why can’t NPR? Pubradio marketing and research consultant John Sutton says the ...Your overseas pubcasting update
The Evangelische Omroep channel of the Dutch public broadcasting system has canceled plans for a comedy show in which “non-religious comedians were ...WNED shows off its show at press tour
For the first time, Buffalo’s WNED has premiered a show at the Television Critics Association tour. Actor Donald Faison (Dr. Turk on Scrubs) ...Going Mad for Sesame Street
The upcoming Sesame Street parody of the hit show Mad Men, announced on the Television Critics Association press tour, inspired the Flavorwire site to make a ...The story of an unexpected gift for NPR
There’s heartwarming story that’s circulating in the blogosphere about a homeless man from Phoenix who passed away and left a $4 million ...WYCC target of federal lawsuit
A new federal lawsuit alleges that WYCC, a PBS member licensed to City Colleges of Chicago, violated terms of its government grant ...Press tour gets preview of PBS plans
PBS announcements from the Television Critics Association press tour in Pasadena: — Curious George is getting his own app. The Curious George ...Cleveland stations plan layoffs, exec pay reductions
WVIZ-TV and WCPN-FM in Cleveland will lay off nine staffers and make “double-digit percentage” cuts to executive salaries, according to the Plain Dealer newspaper. ...Senate Appropriations Committee approves pubcasting funding bill
The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday okayed the fiscal 2010 Labor-HHS appropriations bill, recommending a $450 million two-year advance appropriation for CPB, ...Report follows up on CPB, library efforts
The current issue of Library Journal highlights a June report, Partnership for a Nation of Learners: Joining Forces, Creating Value (PDF), that ...
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