Quick Takes

  • More cable channel change woes

    Time Warner cable customers in York, Maine, are peeved that two Boston television stations, including WGBH, have been dropped from their familiar ...
  • NPR Members meeting goes electronic

    NPR hopes to boost participation in its annual Members Meeting by providing a forum for online participation via WebEx, the Web conferencing ...
  • More news on upcoming PBS NewsHour

    Here’s a transcript of NewsHour e.p. Linda Winslow’s remarks at PBS Showcase detailing the many changes coming to the show in the fall. ...
  • Kerger addresses membership criteria

    PBS chief Paula Kerger, in her State of the System address to pubcasters at the PBS Showcase yesterday, touched on the ongoing ...
  • A bright future for WBGH mural

    WGBH’s digital mural is back. “We are just very, very happy,” said WGBH spokeswoman Lucy Sholley. This is a tale of a ...
  • A new NewsHour coming

    Big changes at NewsHour. No, the rumors aren’t true: Jim Lehrer isn’t stepping down. Not exactly. What will happen is he’ll have a ...
  • PBS hopes to grow news content with cross-pollination

    Ever pondered the possibilities of news shows on PBS such NewsHour, Nightly Business Report and Frontline co-mingling resources and cooperating to produce content? That was a ...
  • TV critic optimistic about pubTV fall shows

    Baltimore Sun TV critic David Zurawik predicts a strong fall pubTV lineup, despite ongoing funding problems. ” … Even in this time of downsizing ...
  • New investigative reporting unit to focus on California

    The Center for Investigative Reporting in Berkeley, Calif., is launching a statewide multimedia reporting initiative with funding from the James Irvine and ...
  • Iranian court suspends Saberi’s sentence

    Roxana Saberi is to be released from Iranian prison today. The freelance Iranian-American journalist, who has reported for NPR and other major ...
  • Euro pubTV bigwigs ponder rubber chickens

    Pubcasters in Europe are getting serious about comedy. Some 500 met in Lucerne, Switzerland, this week, according to The Associated Press, “to ...
  • Pubradio host lives long and prospers

    The local Morning Edition host at WCAI in Cape Cod, Dan Tritle, sure is looking forward to the new Star Trek movie. So he’s a Trekkie? ...
  • It’s two for one for Burns in Florida

    Talk about multitasking. As part of a whirlwind, 45-plus city promotional tour for National Parks, Ken Burns threw out the first pitch at the ...
  • 20th annual concert coming to PBS

    Here’s a preview of the “The National Memorial Day Concert.” It’s the 20th annual airing of the presentation from the capitol on ...
  • Pubcasters request translators to cover DTV gaps

    Three pubTV stations have applied to the FCC for a new class of translators that will help them fill in DTV coverage ...