Quick Takes
Revenue slides for WWOZ, Jazz Fest
After far-flung listeners and pubradio stations pitched in to aid WWOZ’s recovery from Hurricane Katrina in 2005, donations to the New Orleans ...Is pubradio willing to spend what it will take to grow the audience?
Surveying the wreckage of canceled public radio shows, research and marketing consultant John Sutton outlines the lessons learned from NPR’s Day to ...ITVS selects five projects for funding
The Independent Television Service has announced contracts with five projects from its International Call 2008. The films selected to receive production funding ...Proposed 50 percent NY fund cut stuns pubcasters
New York’s public broadcasters were shocked by Gov. David Paterson’s proposed 50 percent cut in state funding, a move they say may ...WGBH lays off 12
Boston’s WGBH added to the host of recent announcements of station layoffs today with the news that it will lay off 12 ...APM shutters Weekend America
American Public Media announced today that it will cease production of Weekend America, its two-hour weekly digest, as of Jan. 31. The cancellation will ...Retired CBS exec to helm KPCW in Park City
The new manager of Utah’s KPCW-FM is retired television executive Jonathan Klein, according to the Salt Lake Tribune. Klein managed Baltimore ...New book details history of “Sesame Street”
Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street by former TV Guide editor Michael Davis hits bookstores Dec. 26. The book “also ...NPR, pubTV holding steady for news viewers
NPR is maintaining a generally steady listenership among Americans for their daily news, Gallup polling shows. Some 18 percent of Americans listen ...MPBN shutting down transmitters, cutting jobs, salaries
Cutbacks in state and federal funding have prompted changes at Maine Public Broadcasting Network, President Jim Dowe announced to staff on Dec. ...“Newspaper death spiral,” and a proposal to avoid it, envisioned for pubcasting
The worst of the “Econolypse” is yet to come and public broadcasters need a plan of action, writes Robert Paterson, a consultant ...Transition team talks Public Media 2.0
Alec Ross of President-elect Barack Obama’s transition team met with pubmedia reps Dec. 16 in Washington at a forum organized by the ...APM/MPR deficit may be up to $2M
American Public Media and Minnesota Public Radio are running between $1.5 million and $2 million under budget for the fiscal year that ...Support grows after demise of college FM station
KTXT-FM in Lubbock, Texas, one of the nation’s most powerful college radio stations, closed Dec. 10 due to financial constraints. Since then, ...Skepticism within NPR about lay-off decisions; Facebook group fundraising to save ‘Day to Day’
NPR Ombudsman Alicia Shepard answers questions about the budget cuts announced by NPR last week and reports on reactions among NPR staff: ...
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