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Phil Redo is leaving WNYC-AM/FM to return to commercial broadcaster Greater Media, where he will oversee five Boston stations. Redo is WNYC’s v.p. of station operations and management.
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Georgia Public Broadcasting has bought an FM station in Rome, Ga., reports the Rome News-Tribune. And in other station news, WDIY-FM in Bethlehem, Pa., will manage and program WXLV-FM in Schnecksville, Pa., a station licensed to Lehigh Carbon Community College. (Coverage in the Allentown Morning Call.)
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The latest Audience 2010 report (PDF) from the Radio Research Consortium finds Arbitron’s methodology to be reliable, which means it can’t be scapegoated for public radio’s audience loss. “Public radio’s national loss of audience momentum is real,” the study says. The previous Audience 2010 installment let satellite radio off the hook.
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The University of Michigan is investigating its public radio and TV stations after the abrupt resignation of director Donovan Reynolds, reports the Detroit Free Press.
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WFMU’s Professor checks in on the Satellite Sisters, formerly of public radio, and his words are not kind: “Some of the urgent topics recently on the Satellite Sisters show: ‘As you listen to the weather forecast this winter, think what it means for your animals’ and ‘Look a salesperson in the eye when you say goodbye’ and most importantly ‘Wipe down exercise machines and mats at the gym after using them.’ I’m NOT kidding.”
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New York’s WNET will not air a controversial panel discussion that was scheduled to run April 17 after the doc, The Armenian Genocide, the Associated Press reports (via Newsday). The forum has been criticized by Armenian-American groups and community leaders for including scholars that deny that the early 20th century killing of more than 1 million Armenians by Turkish forces qualifies as a genocide (earlier post). Activists protested the follow-up panel outside WNET Saturday, but a station spokeswoman said yesterday’s choice to 86 the add-on was “an editorial decision.” An online petition urging PBS to pull the panel discussion has received more than 15,000 signatures.