'A Prairie Home Companion' name becomes 'Live from Here' NEW YORK (AP) - "A Prairie Home Companion" has been given a new name - "Live from Here" - in the wake of creator Garrison Keillor's acrimonious split with Minnesota Public Radio. Chris Thile, the mandolin virtuoso who has hosted the weekly variety show since Keillor's retirement last year, announced the new name Saturday evening as the show opened a live performance in New York City. MPR terminated its contracts with Keillor after it said it had received multiple allegations of improper conduct by Keillor. MPR has declined to give any details except to say the allegations involved treatment of one woman who had worked with Keillor when he was still with the show. Keillor has said he accidentally touched a woman's bare back while trying to console her.
On Fri, Dec 1, 2017 at 1:27 AM, Mark Jeffries <[email protected]> wrote: > MPR's web site schedule (for the News network--MPR has three > networks--News, Classical and the Current adult alternative rock--and "PHC" > is heard on News and Classical) has the new title as "The Chris Thile > Show." APM's syndication site still has it as "PHC." So does WNYC in NY, > but WBEZ in Chicago lists it as "Chris Thile." Surprisingly, APM-operated > (owned by Pasadena City College) KPCC in LA still has it as "PHC," as does > KQED in SF, WGBH in Boston, WAMU in DC and KUOW in Seattle (which uses the > standard site infrastructure that a lot of public radio stations use). But > it seems highly possible that it will be "The Chris Thile Show" for now. > > Mark Jeffries > Saints Spotlight Editor > [email protected] > > On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 12:48 PM, Diner <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Nothing makes sense anymore. Wow. >> >> I've been a huge, HUGE fan of Keillor's since PHC started airing >> nationally in the early eighties. But after what's happened in the past few >> weeks, I guess nothing should surprise me anymore. I'm pretty much numb now. >> >> Though I'm tempted to say that the news was broken by the Lake Wobegon >> Herald Star (and its publisher, Harold Star). >> >> One interesting section of MPR's press release: >> >> By terminating the contracts, MPR and American Public Media (APM) will: >> >> * end distribution and broadcast of The Writer's Almanac and rebroadcasts >> of The Best of A Prairie Home Companion hosted by Garrison Keillor; >> >> * change the name of APM's weekly music and variety program hosted by >> Chris Thile; and, >> >> * separate from the Pretty Good Goods online catalog and the >> PrairieHome.org website. >> >> >> Thile's version of PHC has a live episode (from Town Hall in New York) >> coming up on Saturday. They better change the name of that show soon. >> >> >> >> On Wednesday, November 29, 2017 at 12:55:35 PM UTC-5, Brad Beam wrote: >>> >>> Garrison Keillor fired for alleged improper behavior by Minnesota Public >>> Radio >>> >>> https://usat.ly/2nc20tQ >>> >>> >>> Sent from my iPhone >>> >> -- >> -- >> TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >> Groups "TV or Not TV" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected] >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected] >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en >> --- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "TVorNotTV" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- > -- > TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "TV or Not TV" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected] > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "TVorNotTV" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
