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How Trump Managed To Kill Bipartisaan Support For Public Broadcasting

Trump had campaigned on retribution and made the news media a core element of his grievance. Public broadcasting has offered a ready target, given the government funding, and he has repeatedly claimed NPR and PBS demonstrate ideological bias. - NPR

“Citizen Kane”‘s Rosebud Sleigh Sells For $14.75M

Film director Joe Dante had owned the piece since 1984, when a person was clearing out a section of the Paramount Pictures film lot that had once been owned by RKO, the defunct studio which produced "Citizen Kane." - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)

The Art Of Extra-ing

 In gaps between jobs, an assortment of artists, coders and labourers played policemen, caterers and journalists. As one of the extras playing a journalist, I could draw on personal experience. - The Observer (UK)

Cancelling Colbert: The Ideological Purge Comes To Late Night TV

CBS knows what all this looks like. They’re trying very hard to address the optics. - Washington Post

Congress Approves Trump’s Clawback Of All Public Radio And TV Funding

The bill reclaims the entire $1.1 billion previously appropriated for the next two years for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The CPB distributes two-thirds of its funding to over 1,500 local public radio and TV stations, with most of the rest going to NPR and PBS to support national programming. - AP

CBS Cancels “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert” In A “Purely Financial Decision”

The cancellation, effective next May, of US late-night TV’s highest-rated program comes as CBS’s corporate parent, Paramount Global, seeks FCC approval of an $8.4 billion merger with Skydance Media. Colbert has long been a strong and high-profile critic of Donald Trump, including in his monologues on The Late Show. - CNN

Editors Used To be The Gatekeepers. Now That They’re Largely Gone, Should We Bring Them Back?

 We still live in the world Condé Nast and its intimidating editors created. We just don’t know how to make sense of it, because we lack the requisite curatorial eyes. - Washington Post (MSN)

US Senate Votes To Kill Funding For Public Broadcasting

The measure, known formally as a “rescission package,” is a request from President Donald Trump to take back $9 billion in funds that Congress has already appropriated for foreign aid and public broadcasting. - Poynter

Battle Between Operators Of South Florida’s Public Radio Station And Owners Of Its License

South Florida Public Media Group has raised funds for the southeast Florida public radio and TV stations since 1974 and managed them since 2022. The Group wants to buy a station in West Palm Beach, but the owner of WLRN’s frequencies, the Miami-Dade County School Board, is trying to block the purchase. - Inside Radio

When Condé Nast Was Fat And Sassy (And Really Successful)

What these editors have in common more than some Horatio-Alger-with-a-pica-ruler climb is that they were good at their jobs. They had strong visions and were good at marshaling talent to execute them. They were also the avatars of a major generational turnover in Anglophone culture. - The New York Times

KQED, San Francisco Public Radio/TV, Lays Off 15% Of Staff

Approximately 50 positions are being eliminated, including the entire video division, as the Bay Area’s flagship public media outlet faces a projected $12 million deficit. Last year the station had an $8 million shortfall and laid off 34 staffers. - San Francisco Chronicle (MSN)

Public Broadcasting’s Last Ditch Efforts To Save Public Funding

Congress is expected to vote on that proposal, known as a rescission request, by the end of the week. If approved, it would end federal support for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which distributes money to NPR, PBS and local stations. - The New York Times

Poll: Public Broadcasting Is Overwhelmingly Popular With The American Public

Over half of Republicans (58%) and three-quarters of Democrats (77%) support federal funding for public radio. And 59% of Republicans and 76% of Democrats agree it is a good value for taxpayer dollars. - NPR

NYTimes Removes Four Longtime Critics From Their Beats

The quartet of Times critics — television critic Margaret Lyons, music critic Jon Pareles, theater critic Jesse Green and classical music critic Zach Woolfe — will “be taking on new roles, and we will be conducting a search for critics on their beats in the weeks to come." - Variety

More Trouble For BBC: 300,000 More Households Have Stopped Paying Licence Fee

“As the broadcaster continues to battle the rise of YouTube and streaming services that have split audiences ..., its annual report revealed 23.8m licences were in force at the end of the year, down from 24.1m in 2023-24. The drop means a loss of about £50m in revenue for the corporation.” - The Guardian

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