Quick Takes
NYTimes on WNET’s Shapiro: He’s not shy
WNET’s new president Neal Shapiro, who came from NBC News, “hasn’t been shy about putting his at times unorthodox stamp on WNET ...Flailing WTVP strikes new deal with Bank of America
WTVP in Peoria, Ill., has struck a new deal with Bank of America to settle the station’s debt, writes station President Chet ...Gates incorporates genealogy into new mag
Henry Louis Gates, Jr., Harvard professor and host of the PBS series African American Lives, is heading up The Root, a new ...PBS puts free educational content on iTunes U
PBS is now offering free multimedia educational content on iTunes U, the educational area of iTunes. Housed in the “Beyond Campus” section, ...Competition for Colorado news listeners
The channel swap planned for Colorado Public Radio’s KFCR News and KVOD Classical stations will cut off service to music lovers in ...Summit for state ed officers and pubTV
Rob Lippincott, PBS’s senior v.p., education, is urging stations to invite their states’ chief public school officers to a Council of Chief ...Indecency police are on patrol
Images of a nude woman’s backside, broadcast in February 2003 before 10 p.m. on ABC stations in the Central and Mountain time ...NTIA: Converter boxes coming next month
Electronics manufacturers and retailers will have digital-to-analog converter boxes on store shelves by Feb. 18, said Meredith Baker, acting head of the ...NYT: Kernis’s TV job is at CNN
Jay Kernis will leave NPR to become managing editor at CNN, according to the New York Times‘ TV Decoder blog. NPR announced Kernis’s departure ...Humble Farmer angles for TV placement
Maine’s Humble Farmer, booted from the state’s public radio network after refusing to tone down his political rants, is mounting a return ...Crossroads film gets Oscar nod
Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience, which aired as part of PBS’s America at a Crossroads series, has received an Academy Award nomination for ...Funding boost moves WTVP closer to survival
WTVP in Peoria, Ill., is $1.5 million closer to staying in business, reports the (Bloomington) Pantagraph. Several major donors contributed the sum, bringing ...WUMB ponders end to its PRI affiliation
The steep price of Public Radio International programming has prompted Boston’s WUMB to consider dropping Mountain Stage and Afropop Worldwide, according to ...‘They used to have to leave your house to get into trouble…’
Frontline producers Rachel Dretzin and John Maggio chatted with Washington Post readers about “Growing Up Online,” their investigation into how social networks, ...Global deal brings BBC content to MySpace
A partnership to be announced today by the BBC and MySpace will bring BBC content to 23 regional MySpace sites around the ...
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