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 ...
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