Quick Takes
Park City licensee to “spin off” Salt Lake’s KCPW
KCPW-FM/AM in Salt Lake is up for sale. The board of Community Wireless of Park City, licensee of Park City’s KPCW and ...CPB budget cut follow-up
More on the Bush Administration’s proposed cuts to CPB’s appropriations: Pubcaster advocate Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) told Broadcasting & Cable that “the ...Bids for Yahoo leave pubcasters little time to work on their “business model problem”
What would a Microsoft (or Google) takeover of Yahoo mean for public TV and radio? It will accelerate the growth of online ...Review: Lives 2 finds poetry in famous family trees
The New York Times gives high marks to African-American Lives 2, the follow-up to Henry Louis Gates, Jr.’s celebrity genealogy investigation that ...White House cuts CPB funding for 2009 and beyond
President Bush’s proposed federal budget for fiscal 2009 recommends deep cuts for public broadcasting: the $400 million that was previously approved for ...Chris Anderson’s “dark thoughts” about listening to and supporting public radio
Switching to an iPhone has changed the way Wired editor Chris Anderson listens to public radio, he writes on a blog tied ...WYPR fires the talk host who led its creation
On Friday, Baltimore news/talk station WYPR fired Marc Steiner, the talk show host who led the 2002 campaign to create a freestanding ...Election voices
PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler says NewsHour‘s state-focused “Big Picture” series, which features discussions with citizens about election issues, is “exactly what ...Jane vs. the pigskin
It would be a shame “if ‘Miss Austen Regrets’ goes more unseen than most Masterpiece fare because of PBS’ scheduling, which forces ...Pick a poll
No matter whether you’re a DTV optimist or someone with real concerns about next year’s analog shut-off, there was a survey released ...‘Thanks, OPB, for reaching across the Cascades’
This Daily Astorian editorial lauds the statewide scope of Oregon Public Broadcasting’s new daily radio and online talk show, Think Out Loud.Will KRCL lose its quirk?
Salt Lake City Weekly laments the coming transformation of KRCL from a quirky, eclectic community radio station into one designed to net ...Will there be pledge breaks?
Pubcasters in the Netherlands are sticking to their plans to air the pornographic film Deep Throat next month after the nation’s media ...KOOP ex-volunteer torched the station over music picks, officials charge
On Jan. 5, Paul Feinstein, a 24-year-old former KOOP volunteer angry about past playlist decisions, poured gasoline over the community radio station’s ...Detroit radio vet will head pubTV station
Detroit Public Television’s new president, as of Friday, will be Ritschard (Rich) Homberg, who has been v.p. and g.m. of CBS’s all-news ...
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