Quick Takes

  • Pacifica appointed Don Rojas to manage WBAI, its New York station.
  • An activist raises concerns about Eva Georgia, general manager of Los Angeles Pacifica station KPFK-FM, in an article for the L.A. Independent ...
  • Prosecutors in a Houston capital murder case are challenging a judge’s order to allow Frontline to film the upcoming trial and jury deliberations, ...
  • Frontline producer and reporter Martin Smith discusses “In Search of Al Qaeda”, which aired last night on many PBS stations.
  • A profile in today’s Washington Post describes the Nov. 24 debut of Skinwalkers as a defining moment for PBS President Pat Mitchell.
  • PBS’s publicity blitz for Skinwalkers on Mystery! is churning up a spate of favorable press. Google’s news search engine turned up 11 newspaper stories ...
  • PBS’s Benjamin Franklin apparently held its own against stiff November sweeps competition. The first part of the two-night miniseries pulled in a ...
  • Pacifica held a marathon fundraiser Nov. 19 and is seeking grants to preserve decaying tapes that document recent decades of activism in ...
  • This year’s Public Radio Talk Conference was received so well that PRNDI has scheduled a second annual event for May 2003.
  • John Potthast is leaving Maryland Public Television to oversee development of new national programming for WETA in Arlington, Va., reports the Washington ...
  • The bad blood between Virginia’s public TV stations has come to a boil, reports the Richmond Times-Dispatch. The stations are feuding over how to ...
  • Activists have been picketing Minnesota Public Radio to protest what they believe is biased, pro-war reporting on the network and on NPR. ...
  • Four New York radio stations jockeying for Manhattan listeners are stepping on each other’s toes in the process, raising worries about interference, ...
  • Pacifica is trying to save its deteriorating archives, which include recordings of many famous artists, authors, politicians and activists. [More coverage in ...
  • Milwaukee Public Schools issued a Request for Proposals Oct. 15 to find an operator for its radio station, WYMS. (Microsoft Word file.)