Quick Takes

  • Maine Public Broadcasting may have to lay off employees as it deals with a budget shortfall, reports the Portland Press Herald.
  • Oregon Public Broadcasting is partly responsible for the financial difficulties it faces, according to an Oregonian report. An accompanying article profiles Jack Galmiche, ...
  • Lea Sloan, new PBS v.p. of media relations, tells the Washington Post that a big part of her job will be making sure that ...
  • A group of pubcasting stations interested in Internet services will hold an Integrated Media Conference next April for both radio and TV ...
  • The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals will review whether Frontline can film jury deliberations. “This is an important enough issue, and it’s good ...
  • The novelty has faded: Public radio’s Rewind is going off the air as host Bill Radke seeks a new gig, reports the ...
  • Bill Fantini, radio news director at WHYY in Philadelphia, resigned Dec. 9. Fantini recently developed a state-funded series of positive stories on ...
  • ” . . . Ultimately, it’s a state agency buying good coverage,” comments a broadcast journalism professor on ethical lapses at WHYY-FM, ...
  • The Houston Chronicle reports that prosecutors filed new arguments in the Texas jury taping case.
  • KCTS is “in the midst of a severe financial crisis that has some concerned about whether it can, in the words of ...
  • Attorneys for Frontline and production executive Michael Sullivan explained the rationale for taping jury deliberations in a Texas death penalty case during a ...
  • Radio World‘s Skip Pizzi says digital radio may fail because it promises better sound but little new content. In the same issue, ...
  • The latest Eastern Public Radio newsletter covers Vinnie Curren’s CPB appointment (see below), successful fund drives, format advice and more.
  • Public radio producer Aimée Pomerleau just set up a website, Scorcher Radio.
  • CPB named Vinnie Curren, g.m. of WXPN in Philadelphia, its senior v.p. of radio.