Quick Takes

  • In the Life, the gay/lesbian pubTV show that raises much of its operating funding from viewers, has set a $350,000 goal for ...
  • “If I felt that I was getting the kind of commitment that I needed to grow the program, then I wouldn’t have ...
  • “When they start pushing the panic button over ‘moral values’ . . .

    … at the bluest of TV channels, public broadcasting’s WNET, in the bluest of cities, New York, you know this country has ...
  • Zoom, the interactive children’s series from Boston’s WGBH, will shutter production after its 2005 season. Kids, and PBS, are “looking for the next ...
  • The Center for Social Media at American University published a study recommending ways to help independent filmmakers negotiate the increasingly difficult process ...
  • “I believe the price of this very considerable change is the right price to pay to achieve the prize of a strong ...
  • A consultant’s study (PDF) recommends that stations licensed to three Iowa universities unite under common management, share resources, and develop three separate ...
  • The FCC got only a few hundred indecency complaints in 2001, but about 14,000 in 2002 and no less than 240,000 in ...
  • “We had agreed on the destination we were to arrive at, but somewhere along the line NPR wavered in the journey,” says ...
  • NPR has named Steve Inskeep and Renee Montagne permanent hosts of Morning Edition.
  • Edie McClurg, perhaps best known for the role of the principal’s secretary in Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, was “Operations Manager, News Anchor, Documentary and ...
  • The Rev. Irene Elizabeth Stroud, a former assistant pastor at First United Methodist Church in Germantown, Pa., was expelled from the clergy ...
  • Joan Ganz Cooney, creator of Sesame Street, will discuss “The Evolution and Signifiance of Sesame Street” at a Smithsonian lecture hall in Washington, D.C., Dec. 8. ...
  • Ken Freedman, station manager of freeform WFMU-FM in Jersey City, N.J., gave a State of the Station address Dec. 1. (MP3) Did ...
  • More in the Philadelphia Daily News about Rachel Buchman, the WHYY reporter who resigned after mouthing off to a conservative group. A Daily News columnist broadens ...