Quick Takes

  • Daljit Dhaliwal of ITN has signed with CNN, where she’ll anchor World News, reports The Guardian. (That little pic of Dhaliwal comes from The Unofficial Daljit ...
  • “What’s up with WYMS?” is a site devoted to the embattled Milwaukee radio station.
  • Raquel Welch (born Jo-Raquel Tejada) is “strutting her ethnicity” for the first time in the PBS drama American Family.
  • Public broadcasting is getting more corporate, says the Washington Times.
  • The proliferation of kids’ media and new thinking about how children watch TV have forced Sesame Street to catch up with the times, says ...
  • The FCC will hold two open meetings June 27 to hear public comment about WFUV-FM‘s plans to shorten its broadcasting tower to ...
  • The Yiddish Radio Project has started a “Gems from the Yiddish Radio Archive” feature on its website, a 26-week series of classic ...
  • Chicago’s WTTW-TV laid off fifteen employees last week, according to a Chicago Sun-Times report. The station faces a $3.4 million shortfall in next year’s ...
  • Michigan Radio and Flint’s WFUM-TV have merged to become Michigan Public Media. Donovan Reynolds, former Michigan Radio g.m., will lead the operation. ...
  • The L. A. Times profiles Eva Georgia, new g.m. of L. A. Pacifica station KPFK.
  • There’s new stuff up at WYMS.org, which, oddly enough, is registered to Milwaukee Public Schools.
  • An Oregonian report says Oregon Public Broadcasting cut about 24 jobs—15 percent of its staff—yesterday, in response to the weak economy. Several higher-ups ...
  • White House spokesman Ari Fleischer couldn’t keep his NPR sweatshirt (and why was the network giving him one, anyway?). So who has ...
  • CPB was a lead funder of the report on schools and the Internet, “Are We There Yet?,” released yesterday by the National ...
  • Maryland PTV hires “media crisis manager,” who formerly repped for Linda Tripp. Baltimore Sun stopped taking his pitches after he passed the paper bad ...