Quick Takes
“Cucina Amore” host denies involvement in dog deaths
Damian Mandola, cookbook author, restaurateur and host of the former PBS show Cucina Amore, is embroiled in a neighborhood dispute in Driftwood, ...Pensacola pubTV lays off local host
Part of WSRE-TV’s overhaul of local programming in Pensacola, Fla., includes cutting Robin Reshard, host of its Connecting the Community show. She’d ...WNED names studio after million-dollar “quiet” benefactor
The staff at WNED in Buffalo, N.Y., was stunned when the station received a $1.4 million bequest from Charles N. Hubbell. The ...Obama picks longtime radio pubcaster for CPB board spot
Patricia Deal Cahill is President Obama’s nominee for a seat on the CPB Board. A White House press release details Cahill’s career ...“Time Team” member now monitors fossils instead of freshmen
How did Colin Campbell, an art school grad who designs landscapes for a Baltimore video game firm, end up hosting Oregon Public ...Family hopes exhumation leads to PBS film
The descendants of a U.S. general from the War of 1812 are requesting his exhumation, in part to inspire production of a ...Presidential message will be part of Capitol Fourth celebration
Here’s a nice exclusive for PBS: President Barack Obama will present a message to the nation on the network’s A Capitol Fourth ...WUFT transitions from classical to news/talk
Starting Aug. 3, University of Florida’s WUFT-FM is discontinuing classical music to run NPR news and talk. The station also will expand ...WHTJ staffers now working from home
WHTJ in Richmond, Va., has shrunk from five employees to just two–both of whom work from home, reports The Hook, a weekly newpaper in ...Iowa Public Radio cuts nine spots
Nine positions, or 14 percent of the workforce, are gone at Iowa Public Radio. A statement from CEO Mary Grace Herrington said ...Conference takes first steps toward official nonprof investigative network
The Watchdogs at Pocantico conference, “Building an Investigative News Network,” has wrapped up in Tarrytown, N.Y., and attendees from nearly 30 media ...Wayne Dyer = New Age, letter writer says
Time for the PBS ombudsman’s Mailbag column. Michael Getler received a letter from a viewer upset about the PBS Board’s sectarian programming ...House committee may investigate Arbitron’s Portable People Meters
The Miami-Dade (Fla.) County Board of Supervisors is the latest entity to take on Arbitron’s Portable People Meters. On Tuesday the board ...Public Radio Tech Survey kicks off July 27
The second Public Radio Tech Survey, a web-based analysis of listeners, runs for three weeks starting July 27. It will explore new ...Lightbulbs going off all over Aspen as pubcasters mingle at Ideas Festival
Public broadcasters are in the impressive mix of forward-thinkers this week at the Aspen Institute’s fifth annual Ideas Festival. Here it is, ...
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