Year: 2006
Todd Mundt returns to Iowa to head IPR’s Content Media Efforts
Todd Mundt will join Iowa Public Radio in Des Moines next month as director of content and media. Mundt now serves as ...KCET.org showcases indie gaming
KCET.org launched a special feature on the independent movement within the gaming industry. Flow, a New Age Pac-Man of the sea, is ...KWIT/KOJI launches all-Spanish website
KWIT/KOJI-FM in Sioux City, Iowa, has launched an all-Spanish website.Jake Shapiro: PRX “Long Tail” mention
Jake Shapiro points out that The Long Tail by Chris Anderson, editor of Wired magazine, mentions the Public Radio Exchange.Daniel Schorr, Doing 90 in a 30 Zone
NPR honored Daniel Schorr on the occasion of his upcoming 90th birthday with a luncheon yesterday, reports the Washington Post, but didn’t invite the ...A radio tradition that we tune out
A Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist addresses the idiosyncratic block of ethnic programming that airs Sundays on the city’s WCPN-FM. “It’s a throwback,” writes Tom ...WFMU’s four million page views
Ken Freedman, g.m. of WFMU-FM in Jersey City, N.J., commemorates his blog’s four millionth page view with an analysis of web stats. ...Geezer pundits and Marilyn Monroe
Commentary by geezer pundits smother the subject of Marilyn Monroe: Still Life, an American Masters biography debuting on PBS tonight, writes New York Times critic Virginia Hefferman.WNYC’s Planned Move Will Finish Its Breakup With the City – New York Times
The New York Times takes note of WNYC’s move from its shabby headquarters in the city’s Municipal Building to a $45 million space downtown. ...Shearer strikes back
Harry Shearer told Le Show listeners last weekend that Wisconsin Public Radio in Madison canceled his show due to unhappiness with political content, reports ...NPR rallies system to jointly build ‘trusted space’
NPR launched the next phase of public radio’s New Realities process last week, releasing an ambitious plan to strengthen ties with listeners ...Indecency’s winding road, 1978-2006
July 3, 1978 FCC v. Pacifica Foundation: The Supreme Court upheld the FCC’s right to ban indecent speech when children could be expected ...Paterson on Sievers
Consultant Robert Paterson says that NPR’s packaging of Leroy Sievers’ “My Cancer” series is “a pointer for the future of public radio.” ...WBUR is phasing out arts criticism – The Boston Globe
Arts criticism at Boston’s WBUR-FM is being phased out and the station’s art critic was laid off, reports the Globe.PBS Kids Go! channel: plan is no-go for now
After fewer than half of PBS stations made commitments to carry a proposed multicast channel for school-aged children, the network pulled back ...
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