Quick Takes

  • Conservative writer Rob Long writes in the L.A. Times why he donates to NPR though its programming drives him to shout back, ...
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    July 30, 2003

  • A Venice Beach bike repairman told coworkers a recent pledge to KCRW scored him “a kick-ass tote bag,” “reports” the humor mag The Onion. ...
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    July 30, 2003

  • WNET’s Bill Baker decries the twin disasters of FCC deregulation and diminished support for pubcasters in an op-ed for the University of ...
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    July 28, 2003

  • The new Broadway show Avenue Q, produced by former employees of Sesame Street, spoofs the kids’ show by dragging it “into a curse-filled world of Gen-X ...
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    July 28, 2003

  • Public television producer John Schott has a weblog.
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    July 28, 2003

  • “We’ve changed our strategy from being an exporter of British programming into being a creator of global programs,” says Mark Young, president ...
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    July 28, 2003

  • FCC Chairman Michael Powell is paying a hefty political price for ignoring populist concerns about big media, reports the Washington Post.
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    July 25, 2003

  • The team behind Day to Day, NPR’s new midday newsmagazine, hope the show will be “looser” and “more spontaneous” than other network fare, reports The ...
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    July 25, 2003

  • Marketplace host David Brancaccio is leaving the show to co-host PBS’s Now with Bill Moyers. TV Barn has the PBS press release.
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    July 24, 2003

  • Religious broadcasters are among the entities bidding in the sale of Orange County public TV station KOCE, reports the Los Angeles Times.
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    July 24, 2003

  • New York Times columnist Frank Rich contemplates why liberals can’t get a foothold on talk show TV.
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    July 23, 2003

  • A new genre of makeover programs flourishes in Britain, reports the New York Times. “Their proliferation has led to criticisms that British television, once ...
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    July 23, 2003

  • A new report discusses the future of WNCW-FM in Spindale, N.C., according to the Asheville Citizen-Times. In the report, administrators at Isothermal Community College, ...
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    July 22, 2003

  • Joe Hagan reports in the New York Observer that PBS talk host Charlie Rose rushed back to Manhattan when deposed New York Times Editor Howell Raines ...
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    July 22, 2003

  • Sept. 16 is the application deadline for rural public TV stations to apply for aid to put their digital signals on the ...
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    July 22, 2003