Quick Takes

  • Victor Hogstrom, president at Chattanooga’s pubTV station WTCI, steps up to Kansas City’s KCPT, where he succeeds Bill Reed. Polly Anderson, development ...
  • A House appropriation subcommittee has voted to cut $100 mil from CPB funding, deny $89 mil in DTV and satellite requests from ...
  • During a visit to WXXI, PBS’s Pat Mitchell earns points with the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle editorial page for stepping back from conflict over ...
  • Rabbit Radio is a Dashboard widget for Apple’s Tiger operating system that “makes listening to your favourite NPR stations easy.”
  • Steve Salyer, president of Public Radio International, will resign this fall to head the Salzburg Seminar, an Austria-based forum for international issues. ...
  • “I am the observer,” says Daniel Schorr in the Washington Post as he reflects on what turned him into a journalist. “Other people do ...
  • The new ombudsman at the New York Times, Byron Calame, endorses the newspaper’s decision to appoint a separate newsroom veteran, the “standards editor”, to ...
  • CPB’s general counsel has taken the FCC job vacated by her new boss. Donna Gregg, CPB’s top lawyer since October 2002, will ...
  • The FCC has granted 17 construction permits for low-power FM stations, reports Radio World.
  • Media Matters for America and its new blog offspring, Hands Off Public Broadcasting, see inadequate balance in CPB’s pair of ombudsmen. While ...
  • “I think radio needs a lot more silliness,” says Garrison Keillor in the Boston Globe.
  • Sound Money is changing its name to Marketplace Money.
  • NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin and two colleagues joined Diane Rehm today to discuss the CPB ombuds and other aspects of their field. ...
  • “We want members who are responsive to readers, not to governments or lobby groups,” said NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin in the New York Times, ...
  • “PBS does not belong to any single constituency, no one political party, no activist group, no foundation, no funder, no agenda of ...