Quick Takes
Madeleine Brand jumps to TV, joins KCET’s SoCal Connected
Veteran public radio broadcaster Madeleine Brand has joined the staff of SoCal Connected, KCET’s award-winning news magazine that is moving from weekly to daily ...Sesame Workshop asks Obama campaign to drop Big Bird ad
Sesame Workshop has asked the Obama for America campaign to remove an online ad that contains a cameo appearance from its Big ...BBC World America, Masterpiece announce two co-productions
Masterpiece has signed a co-production deal with BBC World America for two titles. The eight-episode, hourlong Victorian-era series The Paradise finds a young shop girl ...Planet Money reporters talk about team’s approach to news
In the first of a two-part interview on the NetNewsCheck website, Planet Money reporters Adam Davidson and Alex Blumberg talk to writer Michael Depp ...ITVS kicks off effort to pull Independent Lens fans from Thursdays to Mondays
The Independent Television Service has launched a social-media campaign to steer viewers from Thursdays to Monday nights, as Independent Lens prepares to take its ...Pedlow of Latino Public Broadcasting discusses growing importance of Hispanic stories
In an interview Hispanic news site Voxxi, Sandie Viquez Pedlow, executive director of Latino Public Broadcasting, talks about raising the profile of ...Romney signed law that provides WGBH with millions, Boston Globe reports
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney may have said during last week’s debate that he would eliminate funding to public television, but during ...Margaret Drain to leave Boston’s WGBH in February 2013
Margaret Drain, longtime head of national programming for production powerhouse WGBH in Boston, is stepping down in February 2013, the pubTV station ...St. Louis Public Radio, nonprofit Beacon begin collaboration talks
St. Louis Public Radio and the nonprofit St. Louis Beacon have signed a letter of intent to explore an alliance, they announced today. The ...New class of MacArthur fellows includes two POV filmmakers
Two acclaimed filmmakers whose work has been featured on the documentary showcase POV on PBS were among the 2012 “Genius Grant” recipients, announced ...Video of latest Public Media Futures forum now online
Video of the fourth in a series of Public Media Futures forums, held Sept. 20 in San Francisco, is now online at ...FCC soliciting comments on spectrum auctions
The FCC has released a 205-page Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on the upcoming spectrum auctions to clear bandwidth for mobile devices, and ...WTVI brings back first-run PBS shows, rebrands as PBS Charlotte
WTVI in Charlotte, N.C., will return to carrying first-run PBS programming for the first time since 2004, reports the Charlotte Observer. The move will ...PBS planning Jerry Lewis pledge special with producer Jimmy Osmond
Legendary comedian Jerry Lewis will do a rare television special for PBS premiering in March 2013, the month of the entertainer’s 86th ...Call the Midwife scores 1.5 overnight rating for PBS
The Sunday night premiere of Call the Midwife, PBS’s eagerly anticipated limited-run drama series from the BBC, earned a 1.5 rating in Nielsen overnights, ...
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