Quick Takes
Disney gains audience, buzz factor
In the kid’s media biz, “the buzz today is around Disney,” according to the New York Times.Andy Carvin reviews Google for Educators
PBS TeacherSource blogger Andy Carvin is underwhelmed by Google for Educators, a new website for K-12 teachers.CPB hires ad exec to lead public awareness campaign
CPB hired ad and PR veteran Del Galloway to lead its Public Awareness initiative.Moyers: “Tomlinson had a chilling effect”
Bill Moyers on PBS, from a Boston Globe Q-and-A: “It’s a place where if you fight you can survive, but it’s not ...WRFG’s Ebon Dooley dies
Ebon Dooley, co-founder and broadcast director of WRFG-FM in Atlanta, died Oct. 12, according to the station. Dooley also represented affiliate stations ...Marimow steps down as head of news at NPR
More on the resignation of NPR’s Bill Marimow in the Baltimore Sun. “He was committed to excellent journalism, but the job also requires attention ...NPR’s Marimow steps down as news veep
Bill Marimow resigned last night as NPR’s v.p. of news and will become its ombudsman, reports the Washington Post. NPR staffers told the Post that ...This American Life offers podcasts
This American Life will offer its show in podcast form for the first time starting this weekend. Each episode will be available free for ...Radio World NewsBytes
The FCC will not accept minor change applications during the application window for an upcoming auction, according to Radio World.Women of NPR lend names to goats
Your next cheeses from Wisconsin might come from goats named after Cokie Roberts and Nina Totenberg, notes the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Fantome Farm in ...CPB Board’s Pryor recovering after major heart surgery
Former U.S. Sen. David Pryor, named last month to the CPB Board, is expected to make a full recovery after undergoing quadruple ...Grant turns up volume on UB program – Business First of Buffalo:
WNED in Buffalo, N.Y., and the University of Buffalo are preparing to launch a public radio series based on oral histories of ...Austin City Limits to leave longtime home
Austin City Limits will move out of its studio on the University of Texas campus, its home for the past 32 years, ...PRPD general sessions
The Public Radio Program Directors Association has posted audio files of general sessions from this year’s PRPD conference at its website.O’Bryon fills Boland’s chair in SF
Linda O’Bryon, a creator and onetime co-anchor of pubTV’s Nightly Business Report at WPBT in Miami, joins San Francisco-based Northern California Public Broadcasting (KQED/KTEH) ...
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