Quick Takes

  • The Associated Press profiles Transom.org.
  • Executives at Denver’s two public TV stations “can’t agree whether it’s a blessing or a curse that the city has two PBS ...
  • The Public Broadcasting Button Collection collects promotional buttons from public radio and TV over the years. Sample: “1980. The year NPR stops ...
  • Richard Pearce discusses his film “The Road to Memphis,” an installment in PBS’s The Blues, on the Washington Post‘s website.
  • Twenty-three more public TV organizations received digital conversion funding in the year’s second round of Public Telecommunications Facilities Program grants. Aid went ...
  • Gerald Boyd, the former New York Times editor who stepped down after the Jayson Blair flap, is talking with NPR’s Tavis Smiley about becoming ...
  • Noncommercial radio broadcasters can apply to the FCC to reserve certain vacant FM allotments. The deadline is Nov. 21. (PDF.)
  • As the number of TV channels grows, the number that the average household watches grows much more slowly, illustrating the squeeze on ...
  • KCET, Los Angeles, has backed out of a joint bid for the license of KOCE in Orange County, the Los Angeles Times reported. The ...
  • “It wasn’t until I was 28 that I could write confidently,” says Ira Glass in ReadyMade. “I had been living with a woman ...
  • Kentucky’s Georgetown College is going to sell WRVG, its public radio station. Since this article was published, Current has learned that a group ...
  • A retired physics professor and former Republican state legislator wants license holders to clamp down on a lefty bias that he discerns ...
  • The Blues, a seven-film PBS series debuting Sept. 28, is “overreaching and uneven,” writes New York Times critic Elvis Mitchell. He faults the series for ignoring ...
  • Some record labels and music publishers complain that PBS is underpaying the artists featured in its upcoming series The Blues, according to the New York Times.
  • Information about the upcoming Pacifica elections is online.