Quick Takes
Bonneville to end its partnership with the Washington Post
During its first year on the air, Bonneville-owned Washington Post Radio failed to attract one percent of listeners in the metropolitan D.C. ...PBS Ombudsman on Moyers…Again
Bill Moyers is again the topic of PBS ombudsman Michael Getler’s column. Getler addresses Moyers’ farewell to Karl Rove on Aug. 17 ...Crossroads documentary on anti-Americanism debuts tonight
The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal review The Anti-Americans (a love-hate relationship), a PBS documentary debuting tonight. The film ...The War controversy opens doors for Latinos at PBS
“Call it a guilt trip or a cultural awakening, but some Latino filmmakers feel that the controversy over Ken Burns’ upcoming World ...Vincent goes out swinging at KUOW
Program changes and compensation disputes at Seattle NPR news station KUOW prompted longtime host and engineer Ken Vincent to abruptly quit his ...Ken Burns to participate in National Book Festival
Some 70 authors have been chosen to participate in The Library of Congress’s 2007 National Book Festival on the National Mall, Sept. ...WGBH and AARP to partner
Boston’s WGBH and AARP Publications will partner to produce TV shows designed for viewers 50 and older, reports Broadcasting & Cable. The ...MPT’s V-me launch won’t reach many Latino residents
Maryland Public Television’s cable launch yesterday of V-me, the digital Spanish-language channel, didn’t include areas with the state’s largest Hispanic populations, reports ...Dead air the natural way
The culprit that put Jefferson Public Radio off the air in Shasta County and much of Siskiyou County, Calif., was not a ...Talent Quest blows off Windy City contestants
Two Chicagoans, Chuck Mertz and Anne Glickman, were eliminated from Public Radio Talent Quest, the online contest for future pubradio hosts. Still ...Fiske celebrates 60 years in broadcasting
“I came up in a time when you couldn’t say ‘hell’ on the radio,” says retired Washington broadcaster Fred Fiske, recalling his ...Pubradio romance in full bloom
A union worthy of notice in the New York Times: NPR reporter Alex Cohen and former NPR webmaster Richard Dean were ...Australia’s native peoples now have TV channel
National Indigenous Television, a new satellite TV channel for Austalia’s native peoples that launched in July, is seeking programming in many genres ...This American Life: Paragon of quirk
Atlantic Monthly‘s Michael Hirschorn calls This American Life a quintessential example of a quirky indie sensibility that has gone too far. Also ...World goes national
PBS World, the digital doc and pubaffairs channel, goes national today on 55 stations representing 24 licensees reaching more than 27 percent ...
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