Quick Takes

  • Magliozzis’ wrench ready to turn

    Click and Clack’s As the Wrench Turns, the animated TV version of NPR’s popular Car Talk, has its first 10 hour-long episodes ...
  • Way too wet in Tuscaloosa

    A TV studio at the University of Alabama’s Center for Public Television and Radio will be out of commission for months because ...
  • Study finds modest growth in online radio audience

    Is the online radio audience growing or flat? Researchers behind The Infinite Dial 2008: Radio’s Digital Platforms chart an “all-time high” in ...
  • Menu planning for the Social Media Cafe

    The Columbus Social Media Cafe, an endeavor to engage local bloggers in the creation of Web 2.0 public media that benefits the ...
  • PRX gets MacArthur award

    The Public Radio Exchange has received a MacArthur Foundation Award for Creative and Effective Institutions, an annual $500,000 grant awarded only to ...
  • APTS engages search firm for Lawson successor

    Public TV’s lobbying unit, the Association of Public Television Stations, said today it expects to hire a new president by September. The ...
  • Three Webby nominations for NPR Music

    This year’s slate of Webby nominees includes thirteen different public broadcasting websites and mobile services, as well as PBS Kids Sprout, ...
  • Mr. McFeely: Behind the Music

    A documentary about David Newell, who played Mr. McFeely on Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood and continues to makes in-character appearances 40 years later, ...
  • Adobe’s new video player

    Adobe has released its new, free Flash-based video player, which includes content from PBS and the Bay Area’s KQED. Viewers can stream ...
  • Record Web traffic for “Bush’s War”

    Frontline‘s “Bush’s War” has garnered more than 1.5 million online views of all or part of the program. The website features an ...
  • APTS decamps to Crystal City

    PubTV’s government-relations unit, the Association of Public Television Stations (APTS), will move its offices this weekend from downtown Washington to the same ...
  • NPR web chief moves to innovating crafts e-market

    Maria Thomas, builder of NPR’s web services since 2001, will return to cutting-edge e-commerce in May, PaidContent.org reported Tuesday. She’ll be chief ...
  • Peabody Award to fired host revives protests

    Yesterday’s announcement that WYPR founder and former host Mark Steiner won a Peabody Award coincided with the station’s on-air fundraising drive and ...
  • Pubcasters win 14 Peabody Awards

    Of the 35 George Foster Peabody Awards announced today, 14 went to programs produced and/or aired by public broadcasters. Winners, chosen by ...
  • This American Life … live … in high-def … in 317 theaters

    On May 1, before its second season on the Showtime cable channel, This American Life will try a one-night-only live HD broadcast ...