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At NPR’s blog, Robert Smith is sizing up the competition: the new Washington Post radio station that launched this morning. “You want to take this outside for a debate over globalization? I didn’t think so.”
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“National Public Radio recently issued a testy note to Boston Acoustics, complaining about reception problems with a radio NPR had bought in huge numbers for giveaways,” reports the Philadelphia Daily News.
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Public radio reporter and producer Kathy McAnally died March 24 of cancer. She was 55. This remembrance aired on San Francisco’s KQED-FM, where McAnally worked for many years.
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Rebecca Roberts, daughter of Cokie, will host a new local talk show on WETA-FM in Washington, D.C., starting this summer. (Second item.)
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PBS ombudsman Michael Getler addresses viewer complaints about pledge programming and posts letters from pledge-weary pubTV fans in his most recent column. “PBS needs to change its name!” writes a viewer in Grand Rapids, Mich. “My suggestion is to call PBS the ‘Please Buy Something’ network.”
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CPB is accepting applications for another round of digital conversion grants to public radio stations.
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CPB plans to launch a Station Renewal Project for pubradio stations that could fall short of new audience service criteria for Community Service Grants. A recent Request for Proposals seeks a pubradio professional to serve as a consultant on the project.
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See Chicago Public Radio’s Torey Malatia get all Glengarry Glen Ross at his station’s pledge drive. Also, the station is offering a This American Life 100th Anniversary mug as a premium (that’s right, 100th anniversary).