Quick Takes

  • Attendees at this year’s Public Broadcasting New Media Conference are blogging about the conference here.
  • The Palm Beach Post reports and editorializes on the Florida State Board of Education’s unanimous vote yesterday approving the sale of local pubcasting stations ...
  • Nine more stations have added American Public Television’s Create, a digital multicast channel featuring cooking, travel, painting and other how-to programming. This ...
  • “[W]e strongly feel that debating the Armenian Genocide is akin to arguing about the Jewish Holocaust in order to project a sense ...
  • “[I]n the 17 months since he jumped to pay radio, Edwards has displayed more range and reportorial chops than some at NPR ...
  • Minnesota Public Radio is suing Al Gore’s television channel over the name “Current,” reports the New York Sun.
  • To probe Tomlinson CPB activities, reformers look to his other federal role

    CPB isn’t covered by the Freedom of Information Act, so nonprofits probing Ken Tomlinson’s period as chairman continue trying to use FOIA ...
  • A warm reception among critics at the Berlin International Film Festival has made the film realization of A Prairie Home Companion a contender for ...
  • “With [Bill] Marimow taking over as vice president of news this week, the print guys may have completed their takeover” of NPR, ...
  • Newsman Dan Rather will be on hand today in Marfa, Texas, to help launch KRTS-FM, a new public radio station serving the ...
  • NPR will soon start broadcasting to Berlin on a frequency recently vacated by Voice of America. It’s the first station the network ...
  • NPR reports on a Class D high-school station in Massachusetts trying to protect its license from takeover by a California religiocaster.
  • The weekly cume audience for WVXU-FM in Cincinnati jumped by 35 percent after a switch to an all-news format last summer, reports ...
  • This American Life‘s deal to produce a TV show requires the show’s relocation to New York, reports the Chicago Reader — a change host Ira Glass ...
  • Michael Getler of PBS, Jeffrey Dvorkin of NPR and two other ombuds recently got together to chat with Marvin Kalb about their ...