Quick Takes
KTOO launches new services
KTOO in Juneau, Alaska, launched three distinct programming streams Friday, one news and two music, making use of two newly acquired FM ...Half of Peabodys go to pubcast programs
Programs on public TV and radio received seven of the 14 duPont-Columbia Awards announced Saturday. Winners include Martin Scorsese’s Dylan bio on American Masters; ...Indiana pubradio net buys station
Northeast Indiana Public Radio in Fort Wayne plans to pay a commercial broadcaster $1.75 million for an FM channel on which it ...Law students organize against satellite radio merger
As Sirius Satellite Radio flirts with competitor XM Satellite Radio (sending their stock prices rising), a group of George Washington University law ...Sometimes your what do what?
Faith Salie, host of PRI’s Fair Game, lists 10 things Esquire readers don’t know about women.NewsHour didn’t show all sides in Iraq panel, FAIR says
Lefty media watchdog Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting criticized a recent NewsHour panel discussion of the war in Iraq, saying it included ...Study on TV violence prompts warning to broadcasters
The violence depicted in broadcast networks’ primetime programs is approaching “epidemic proportions,” according to a study issued yesterday by the Parents Television ...PubTV programmers launch new blog
Live from Las Vegas! PubTV programmers Keith York and Garry Denny are blogging about their adventures at the International Consumer Electronics Show. ...Keillor’s rules for reading the paper
A traditional newspaper is far more stylish than a laptop, Garrison Keillor writes in this Salon piece. “A man at a laptop ...BP backs KCET’s twin series with $15 million
KCET has received its biggest-ever underwriting grant: $15 million to go national with its twin Peabody-winning parenting/caregiving programs A Place of Our Own and Los ...NAB to launch DTV publicity campaign
APTS will be part of a coalition of broadcasting, retail and social interest groups, led by the National Association of Broadcasters, that ...Open Media Network promotes PC-to-TV downloads
Open Media Network, the online non-commercial content portal featuring lots of pubcaster programs, is optimizing its video for larger screens, it announced ...Tomlinson won’t seek BBG renomination
Kenneth Tomlinson, ousted former chair of the CPB Board, asked President Bush not to renominate him to the Broadcasting Board of Governors, ...Getler calls for more aggressive Iraq coverage
PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler proposes a new year’s resolution for public TV journalists and producers of news and public affairs programs: ratchet ...NPR develops another morning show — for relative youngsters
NPR announced today that it’s developing a new show — target audience, ages 25-44 — that will compete with its own Morning Edition. The ...
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