Quick Takes
The Daily Show, Chicago-style, from WTTW
WTTW and performers from Chicago’s Second City and the comedy troupe Schadenfreude have produced IL-Informed, a comedy show that satirizes local issues–and ...In NYC, The Police will play for pubTV
At The Police’s farewell show in New York this summer, every breath they take will be for trees and public TV. Proceeds ...A Place of Our Own adds newswoman to cast
TV anchor Elizabeth Sanchez is the new host of A Place of Our Own, KCET’s English program for parents and caretakers of ...Tough enough for cable TV
At the History Channel, home of Ice Road Truckers, the host of the new weekly series Tougher in Alaska, premiering Thursday, May ...MPT’s $1 million gift is its largest ever
Real estate developer Edward H. Kaplan, chairman of the Maryland Public Broadcasting Commission, and his wife, Irene, will give MPT $1 million ...Getler: Moyers soft on Rev. Wright
In his latest column, PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler takes note of some positive aspects of Bill Moyers’ interview with the Rev. Jeremiah ...Rehm’s show to remain a pubradio fixture
Talk shot host Diane Rehm tells a Michigan TV station that she expects to continue hosting her show for at least another ...PBS news duo to receive Cronkite Award
Jim Lehrer and Robert MacNeil have been chosen to receive this year’s Walter Cronkite Award for Excellence in Journalism, reports the Arizona Republic. The ...British press weighs in on Beeb-WLIW split
“The idea that we don’t see our future intertwined with public television and radio is absolutely not true,” says Michele Grant, the ...CPB will reward outstanding radio testimonials with cash
CPB will give $3,000 to the stations that produce the three most compelling My Source radio testimonial spots, the corporation announced. CPB ...Winslow: Lehrer recovering nicely from heart surgery
Jim Lehrer will return to the Newshour in a few weeks after recovering from heart valve surgery, Linda Winslow, e.p., told PBS’s ...WGBH, Sesame Street lead PBS slate of Daytime Emmy nominees
Daytime Emmy nominations announced this week by the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences include 44 for PBS programs. Ten series ...James Day, pioneering pubTV exec and program host, dies at 89
James Day, co-founder of San Francisco’s KQED and host of the influential weekly interview program Kaleidoscope, died last Thursday from respiratory failure. ...Ten new pubTV stations join Raising Readers
CPB and PBS have selected 10 new pubTV stations to participate in Raising Readers, a program to improve the reading skills of ...Meet Etsy’s new COO, Maria Thomas
Etsy, the online crafts marketplace that hired NPR digital media chief Maria Thomas as its new c.o.o., produced a video to introduce ...
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