Quick Takes

  • Independent Lens is crafting an interactive version of its documentary series for the American Film Institute’s Enhanced TV Workshop, reports the New York Times. Interactive TV ...
  • Examine WAMU’s budget and “there are no thousand-dollar designer trash cans lurking in the numbers, no junkets to Caribbean islands, nothing that ...
  • German public television is defending two of its cultural channels from politicians’ proposal that they be merged to save money, the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung ...
  • Some Vermonters want their state public radio network to carry Democracy Now!, but the network’s president says the show won’t air because of its ...
  • Virginia and the District of Columbia have begun to compete for the site of PBS headquarters, the Washington Business Journal reported. PBS’s lease in ...
  • The Berkshire Eagle criticizes Bill Moyers for his Nov. 28 interview with Jim Bouton, former major league baseball pitcher and author who battled the ...
  • New York’s WNET is looking for a few good donors, reports the Daily News. The station needs cash to digitally restore some of its ...
  • The Annenberg Foundation has given $3.5 million to the Metropolitan Opera to help keep the company’s weekly broadcasts on the air, reports ...
  • KGNU-FM in Boulder, Colo., is working with Public Radio Capital to help buy an AM signal in Denver.
  • Former Connection host Christopher Lydon has started a new weblog devoted to the 2004 presidential election.
  • Maryland Public Television’s contracting and bonus practices came under fire in a report released yesterday by the state’s legislative auditor, reports the Baltimore Sun.
  • The Baltimore Sun runs down the history behind Joan Kroc’s $200 million gift to NPR.
  • The Baltimore Sun‘s David Folkenflik reports on a proposal to privatize Maryland Public Television.
  • Interesting tidbit: Fox News’s right-wing talker Sean Hannity got his start in broadcasting at public station KCSB in Santa Barbara, Calif.
  • Former NPR reporter Sarah Chayes writes in the Columbia Journalism Review that “a sense that [the U.S. press] had abdicated its duty to help ...