Public television producer John Schott has a weblog.

“We’ve changed our strategy from being an exporter of British programming into being a creator of global programs,” says Mark Young, president of BBC Worldwide Americas, in the L.A. Times.

FCC Chairman Michael Powell is paying a hefty political price for ignoring populist concerns about big media, reports the Washington Post.

The team behind Day to Day, NPR’s new midday newsmagazine, hope the show will be “looser” and “more spontaneous” than other network fare, reports The Los Angeles Times. Day to Day debuts Monday, July 28.

Marketplace host David Brancaccio is leaving the show to co-host PBS’s Now with Bill Moyers. TV Barn has the PBS press release.

Religious broadcasters are among the entities bidding in the sale of Orange County public TV station KOCE, reports the Los Angeles Times.

New York Times columnist Frank Rich contemplates why liberals can’t get a foothold on talk show TV.

A new genre of makeover programs flourishes in Britain, reports the New York Times. “Their proliferation has led to criticisms that British television, once known for its quality and innovation, has deteriorated into a showcase for relatively inexpensive programs that cater to viewers’ lazier and meaner instincts.”

A new report discusses the future of WNCW-FM in Spindale, N.C., according to the Asheville Citizen-Times. In the report, administrators at Isothermal Community College, the station’s owner, tell their board that other broadcasters want to buy or manage WNCW. They also suggest changes to the station if the board decides not to sell. [Earlier coverage of WNCW in Current.]

Joe Hagan reports in the New York Observer that PBS talk host Charlie Rose rushed back to Manhattan when deposed New York Times Editor Howell Raines offered an interview. In the newsmaking interview, Raines came off about as poorly as Jayson Blair in HIS post-scandal debut.

Sept. 16 is the application deadline for rural public TV stations to apply for aid to put their digital signals on the air. The Agriculture Department is making $15 million available, according to a press release. APTS sought the aid as part of a strategy to find federal money beyond the CPB appropriation, as President John Lawson wrote in a commentary this spring.

The CPB Board of Directors adopted these goals as part of the corporation’s fiscal year 2004 budget, July 22, 2003. I. LOCAL SERVICES AND CONTENT Strengthen the value and viability of local stations as essential community institutions by improving their operational effectiveness and fiscal stability, and increasing their capacity to invest in and create sustainable services and content that will advance their local mission. To achieve this Goal, CPB will pursue the following objectives: Measure the value of local service as perceived by the intended beneficiaries – Conduct research to understand how various media are used by the audiences that stations serve or hope to serve in the future, and how the pattern of use is changing as new platforms and media emerge.

Maria Martin, executive producer of public radio’s Latino USA, is leaving the show as it celebrates its 10th anniversary. She says she’s leaving to keep a CPB grant that drew objections from the University of Texas, where the show is produced.

The MITRE Corp. has released its study of whether low-power FM stations can operate on third-adjacent channels to full-power stations. The Prometheus Radio Project, a group of low-power activists, say the study proves the FCC could safely license many more LPFMs. Other stakeholders have yet to comment. [Earlier coverage in Current.]

San Francisco Chronicle critic Tim Goodman has some scathing words for PBS, which he says is “hopelessly broken.” President Pat Mitchell and her programmers “can’t form a declarative sentence to save their lives.” (Via Romenesko.)