Quick Takes

  • “Although the new Forsyte Saga cannot recreate the story’s historic role in television, its revitalized characters offer a delightful escape,” writes Caryn James in ...
  • The FCC has released the findings of 12 studies it commissioned to examine the effects of existing media ownership rules. The agency ...
  • BBC re-tooled its nightly world news program more closely to American interests, and last week began producing the show live from studios ...
  • Sixty couples have met at NPR and married, thus landing on Susan Stamberg’s list tracking the phenomenon, reports USA Today.
  • The Public Telecommunications Facilities Program awarded $36 million in digital conversion grants to 97 public TV stations Sept. 30. An additional $6 ...
  • The board of education in Columbus, Ohio, is likely to keep control of public radio station WCBE, reports This Week. An advisory ...
  • Viewers ignored the rebroadcast of Ken Burns’ Civil War in favor of the Emmys and network shows such as CSI: Miami ...
  • Pacifica plans to launch a daily hourlong digest covering the push for war against Iraq, and will also offer live coverage of ...
  • The Rise and Fall of Jim Crow, debuting tonight on PBS, “does not shout, nor does it exult. It pays homage to sacrifice and ...
  • Pacifica voted to return to its old home of Berkeley after its executive director said the move would save money, reports the ...
  • The increasingly busy Nic Harcourt, host of KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic, tells the L.A. Times he’s “totally overworked.” He just supervised the ...
  • PBS launched a major new website for parents. It features an activity search tool that correlates games, booklists, stories and fun projects ...
  • “Luckily I hadn’t had anything to eat or drink; if I’d had a cup of coffee I might have actually been sweating ...
  • Talks with NPR’s Ben Roe and the BBC’s John Evans from the PRPD are now online at the website of the Association ...
  • “If PBS only had a sense of humor and encouraged more independent creativity and originality, its programs would serve audiences far better,” ...