Quick Takes
PBS hires KQED’s John Boland
John Boland, executive v.p. of San Francisco’s KQED-TV/FM, will join PBS in September as chief content officer. His hiring, announced at today’s ...Mermigas column on PBS
“New-media’s consumer-supported business model is not much different from public broadcasting’s long-standing membership pledges and corporate sponsorships,” observes media writer Diane Mermigas ...Conrad on HD Radio
Robert Conrad, president of WCLV-FM in Cleveland, says the technological shortcomings of HD Radio “[are] really very discouraging and [are] leading us ...Charlie Rose returns after recovering from surgery
Charlie Rose returns to his round table tonight after emergency heart surgery interrupted on overseas trip in March, AP reports. Topic No. ...James Barrett dies
James Barrett, NPR’s first public relations director and a former director of public information for New York’s WNET, died of pneumonia June ...Louisville Courier-Journal: New team running public radio stations
Board members and senior staffers are running the Public Radio Partnership in Louisville, Ky., in the absence of a permanent president, reports ...Who’s fighting for rightward balance at CPB?
As pubcasting girds for another fight over federal funding, the Washington Times asks “public TV insiders of a conservative bent” whether the rightward cause ...Major pubTV history series backed by NEH
National Endowment for the Humanities announced yesterday $5 million in TV grants to projects including WETA’s four-hour The Jewish Americans; WGBH’s We Shall Remain, a five-parter ...Alaska’s KTOO buys 2 stations
KTOO in Juneau, Alaska, is buying two FM stations to offer a wider selection of programming. It already operates one FM outlet ...House subcommittee cuts CPB funding
The Boston Globe and Broadcasting & Cable report on the House Appropriations subcommittee vote yesterday to cut $115 million in federal aid to public broadcasting. [Links ...TiVo steps out as video presenter
TiVo launches today a service that will let some of its subscribers watch videos from selected Internet sources, including the National Football ...WGA, pubTV stations negotiate contract
Writers Guild of America and three pubTV producing stations completed negotiations on a three-year contract that includes provisions to share revenues from ...NPR : Are NPR Reporters Too Involved in Their Stories?
NPR’s David Kestenbaum’s use of the word “pissed” in a question to an interviewee should not have survived editing, says Ombudsman Jeffrey ...Washingtonpost.com: Taking Offbeat Films Beyond the Niche
The Prairie Home Companion film is the first major release for Picturehouse Films, a recently formed distributor whose president, Bob Berney, is profiled in ...KCTS takes over operations of Yakima station
In a cost-cutting move, Seattle’s KCTS is taking over operations of KYVE, the public TV station in Yakima that it has owned ...
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