Quick Takes
PRI adds two CBC programs to distribution portfolio
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The shows debuted last month.
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Show creator Jonathan Goldstein is moving on to unspecified “new projects.”
Did one of public TV’s most revered figures really cede editorial control to a celebrity? It certainly looks that way to PBS ombudsman Michael Getler.
Shows that air on U.S. public radio will once again be spared.
Plus: Pubmedia’s James Beard Award winners, and a “national conversation” about the future of the CBC.
Canada’s public broadcasting network is eliminating 657 jobs after suffering cuts in federal funding and the loss of a broadcast license for National Hockey League games.
Plus: KCETLink has some laughs, the CBC cuts more than 600 jobs and WCRB searches for a sonic logo.
Plus: CBC braces for huge losses, and the Fred Rogers Center honors Yo-Yo Ma.
New York’s WNYC has released for the first time recordings of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. interviewed on several occasions in the 1960s by Eleanor Fischer, a Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reporter who later worked for NPR. The interviews capture King discussing a wide range of subjects, including his childhood, his adoption of nonviolent resistance tactics, and the Montgomery bus boycott. The recordings were among tapes given to WNYC’s archive in 2008 after Fischer passed away. “We are a rich archive in content but not a huge staff of people and we have received many collections,” wrote Archive Director Andy Lanset in an email to Current.