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“After just five weeks on the air, it seems that MPR’s new alt-rock-and-variety station is already a significant tastemaker in town,” says the Twin Cities’ City Pages, which devotes three articles to “89.3 The Current.”
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“Let’s take a moment to acknowledge something that has, in fact, been true for some time: Technical innovation in U.S. radio broadcasting is being led by public radio,” writes Paul McLane in Radio World.
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Terry Gross’s idea of cooking used to be “opening a can of Progresso minestrone and taking out their vegetables, keeping the broth and putting in my own vegetables,” she says in Delware’s News Journal.
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The San Francisco Chronicle looks at the the competition between secular and religious broadcasters for low-power FM stations.
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In the MP3 era, “the art of the set and the segue is in imminent danger of dying,” writes WFMU deejay Dave Mandl in the Brooklyn Rail.
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A Boston Globe writer looks at the business model — or lack thereof — of podcasting. “One problem is that, much like the Web before advertising and e-commerce, there’s no money in podcasting yet,” he says.
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Former WBUR-FM host Christopher Lydon will host an evening talk show on WUML-FM, reports the Lowell Sun. The Lowell, Mass., station is licensed to the University of Massachussetts, and the students who host some of the station’s programs object to Lydon’s arrival.
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Indicating perhaps that PBS did not have to fear some four-letter words in a recent Frontline, the FCC yesterday chose not to stifle the right of (actors playing) soldiers to swear while risking their lives in war. (Surprised?) The order (news release, full text) rejected indecency complaints about ABC’s airing of Saving Private Ryan last fall.
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PBS’s president stands by her decision (“not an easy one”) to pull the two-mommies episode of Buster, reported Broadcasting & Cable. “I wouldn’t inject PBS stations into a culture war they did not start and cannot stop,” Pat Mitchell said at an AWRT meeting Feb. 25. Via Benton.org.