Year: 2006
WNET eyes capital campaign to finance its expansion
With the election of financier James Tisch as chairman of Educational Broadcasting Corporation — and Paula Kerger’s recent departure as executive v.p. ...Douridas charged for cocaine possession
Chris Douridas, a deejay at KCRW-FM in Santa Monica, Calif., was charged yesterday with one count of cocaine possession, reports the Los Angeles Times. ...Digital Distribution Consortium for pubradio convenes
Todd Mundt writes that stakeholders in public radio have formed a Digital Distribution Consortium to map a shared digital infrastructure for the ...KOOP rebuilds
KOOP-FM in Austin, Texas, is building new studios after two fires destroyed the community station’s old home and knocked it off the ...In Texas, Fighting to Keep Brahms on Air – New York Times
Lovers of classical music are fighting to keep KTPB in Kilgore, Texas, on the air, reports the New York Times. “Just because we live ...Study: Few consumers know that HD Radio offers multicast capability
A radio audience research firm found that only one percent of respondents to a telephone survey knew that HD Radio can provide ...Boing Boing: This American Life / podcaster flap: former intern rebuts.
At Boing Boing, a former intern with This American Life weighs in on a debate over unofficial podcasts of the show. Thanks to this ...Radio exec gets probation
The Detroit Free Press reports that Michael Coleman, g.m. of WDET-FM in Detroit, was sentenced to two years’ probation June 22 for embezzling from ...Technology360: NPR vs. PBS web traffic
Dennis Haarsager uses Alexa to compare web traffic for NPR.org and PBS.org and finds them pretty close. But the website of New ...McCain amendment would help LPFM
Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) is sponsoring an amendment to a telecommunications bill (PDF) that would ease protections for full-power FM stations from ...Interview with Michele Norris
“I meet someone, and, after they figure out what I do, they tell me how much NPR means to them,” says All Things Considered ...The mysterious appeal of Garrison Keillor. By Sam Anderson
Slate‘s Sam Anderson analyzes at length the resolutely unstylish style of Garrison Keillor and dubs him “the shock jock of wholesomeness.”Van Cliburn opposes sale of Texas music station
Closing pubradio station KTPB will “devalue Kilgore College as an institution of higher learning,” pianist Van Cliburn wrote to the college trustees, ...PBS: pixilate that dirty mouth!
The Boston Globe reports on new PBS guidelines requiring producers to completely bleep compound swear words (such as “mother f*****!”) and visually blur the ...Dvorkin heads to CCJ
Jeffrey Dvorkin is leaving his post as NPR’s ombudsman to serve as executive director of the Committee of Concerned Journalists and the ...
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