Quick Takes
Nielsen to expand into radio ratings?
TV ratings juggernaut Nielsen Media Research is in talks with Clear Channel’s electronic ratings service about measuring radio listening, potentially threatening Arbitron’s ...State accuses contractor with safety violations in Iowa tower deaths
A state agency has cited a tower service company for three violations of safety regulations involved in a fatal accident on an ...Caleca and Mendes depart PBS this month
Two of PBS’s top technical officers are leaving this month: Ed Caleca, senior v.p. of technology and operations, and Andre Mendes, chief ...Amy Goodman to begin newspaper column
King Features Syndicate will begin distributing a weekly current-affairs column by Democracy Now! host Amy Goodman on Oct. 24, Editor & Publisher reports. She ...PRI to launch evening comedy/variety show
This fall Public Radio International will launch Fair Game with Faith Salie, an hourlong evening program featuring interviews, political satire and in-studio musical performances. ...Performance Today, SymphonyCast move to APM
Beginning early next year, American Public Media in St. Paul, Minn., will produce public radio’s Performance Today and SymphonyCast. NPR will end production of the ...Conclusions and speculation on the effects of tots’ TV
The New York Times reviews recent research findings on what toddlers learn from television while Slate speculates on whether there’s a link ...WNIT to relocate to South Bend
WNIT in Elkhart, Ind., plans to move to downtown South Bend in 2009, taking over a building to be vacated by the ...WTC’s blue and white collar heroes
Of the two documentaries airing tonight that recall the fiery collapses of the World Trade Center’s twin towers, New York Times Critic ...Bozell to hand over reins of PTC
Brent Bozell will step down as president of the Parent’s Television Council, the group that led the charge against broadcast indecency after ...Claim: New TV tech will double visible color palette
Researchers in Switzerland say they’re developing a nano technology that will allow future TVs to present every color the human eye can ...Emmy broadcast prompts obscenity complaint
The Los Angeles Times reports that the Parents Television Council filed an FCC complaint over obscenities uttered by two actresses during the ...Ombudsman on PBS’s online ads
Viewers aren’t complaining much about PBS’s online advertising practices, writes PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler, but criticisms leveled by media activist Jeff Chester ...Tavis Smiley’s “Covenant”
Writing for The Nation, Amy Alexander examines the impact of Tavis Smiley’s The Covenant with Black America. “One doesn’t just read The Covenant With Black America,” she says. ...Deep linked video increases exposure, bandwidth costs
AOL and Microsoft video services are deep linking to public TV content, reports Dennis Haarsager via his Technology 360 blog, which allows ...
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