Quick Takes
PRI adds two CBC programs to distribution portfolio
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The shows debuted last month.
Programs/Content
‘WireTap’ will wind down stateside with ‘sendoff season’
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Show creator Jonathan Goldstein is moving on to unspecified “new projects.”
"The Pub" Podcast
The Pub #15: Did Skip Gates cave to Ben Affleck?; CBC releases Ghomeshi investigation; Why local radio voices have more bass
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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.
Quick Takes
CBC to cut an additional 1,000-1,500 jobs by 2020
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Shows that air on U.S. public radio will once again be spared.
Quick Takes
Wednesday roundup: PBS Digital won’t pursue product placement; KUNM revisits plagiarism charge
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Plus: Pubmedia’s James Beard Award winners, and a “national conversation” about the future of the CBC.
System/Policy
Deep cuts at CBC spare shows airing on U.S. public radio
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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.
Quick Takes
Friday roundup: Heartbleed poses danger for newsrooms; PRPD elects new chair
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Plus: KCETLink has some laughs, the CBC cuts more than 600 jobs and WCRB searches for a sonic logo.
Quick Takes
Wednesday roundup: Sesame Go app launches; Pacifica heads to court
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Plus: CBC braces for huge losses, and the Fred Rogers Center honors Yo-Yo Ma.
Programs/Content
WNYC shares previously unreleased recordings of Martin Luther King Jr. interviews
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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.