Quick Takes
Thursday roundup: Fahle leaving WDET, EFF chimes in on net neutrality
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Plus: WFMU opens a new performance space, and Chris Hardwick compares NPR reporters to Star Wars characters.
Quick Takes
Thursday roundup: Utah station threatened by CPB grant rules; Public Radio Capital rebrands
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Plus: PBS virtually recreates D-Day, and the latest on the fight over podcasting patents.
Quick Takes
Friday roundup: NewsHour launches new website; podcasting patent fight continues
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• PBS NewsHour unveiled a redesigned website Thursday, featuring responsive design, new navigation menus and an expanded digital editorial presence. The new site combines stories from the program’s weekday and weekend editions, as Current reported in July 2013. “This new site is designed to meet the demands of an expanding and more involved audience,” NewsHour Creative Director Travis Daub wrote in an introductory post, adding that the redesign is the most expansive in the website’s 18-year history. • Pittsburgh Public Media has applied to the FCC for permission to boost the wattage of WYZR-FM, the jazz station it launched in August 2013. The proposed boost to 10,000 watts still would not get WYZR into Pittsburgh from its location in Bethany, W.Va., PPM President Chuck Leavens told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
System/Policy
Podcast lawsuits provoke pubmedia attention, presidential action
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A brewing legal fight initiated by Personal Audio, a Texas-based company that claims to have invented podcasting technology, has entered a new policy arena.
Quick Takes
Electronic Frontier Foundation solicits help to battle podcasting lawsuit
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is waging a public battle against Texas-based technology company Personal Audio over a pending patent lawsuit over podcasts, and now it’s taking the fight a step further.