Author: Mike Janssen
Disconnect between board and WHQR manager leads to departure
Stations struggling with mounting deficits often cut jobs, but the shears rarely lop off the highest rank as they did at WHQR ...Vocalo.org shakes up Chicago airwaves with unconventional radio format
The afternoon team at Chicago’s newest noncommercial radio station is on the air, talking crime and punishment. Most public radio shows would ...Stations court, flirt, propose and part by Monterey Bay
A proposed merger of two California pubradio stations fell apart when officials at California State University Monterey Bay voted to keep control ...Baltimore’s WYPR takes heat for dismissing longtime host Marc Steiner
Listeners are flooding the station with emails, posting angry comments and picketing the studios.Talks on infrastructure
Top pubradio executives have begun discussing ideas for a comprehensive “back end” digital storage and distribution system that backers say could support ...‘Radio Lab’: where Big Ideas become audio art
The show from NPR and WNYC explores big ideas in science in an accessible, even addictive style.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 ...Orozco gives small station big-league news presence
Lance Orozco is one of Southern California’s most honored and recognized journalists. Yet he doesn’t work for the Los Angeles Times or a commercial ...Germans pick NPR over Voice of America to broadcast in Berlin
An FM station in Berlin will soon become the first programmed overseas by National Public Radio.Weak audience and income blamed in classical fade
For lovers of classical music, these are difficult times. Once pubradio’s dominant format, classical music is still widespread on the airwaves. As of ...Finale for music as WETA goes all-news
To stop a long slide in audience, WETA-FM in Washington, D.C., will adopt an all-news format Feb. 28. With almost unanimous approval ...Universities to merge stations, creating Iowa Public Radio
Three public radio operations will merge to create a new Iowa Public Radio network, the state’s Board of Regents has confirmed. The net ...New formats in commercial radio could attract public radio fans
Classical music, liberal-friendly talk programming and rock tunes couched in mellow ambiance might sound like familiar public radio fare. But they’re also ...Cost of democratic safeguards is steep, Pacifica discovers
Pacifica’s transition to a listener-elected board of directors carried an unexpectedly high price tag, and network executives are exploring cheaper alternatives. Last year ...Standing on its own, WNYC takes cues from New York City’s vitality
"We don’t do anything in a small way,” says Laura Walker, and in her eight years as president of New York’s WNYC ...
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