Author: Mike Janssen
Zwerdling remains at NPR in new job; tensions still run high
NPR has promised veteran reporter Daniel Zwerdling another year of work, but colleagues are still asking what management’s decision to eliminate his ...FCC thumbs-up starts radio’s digital age
The FCC has approved the front-running technology for digital radio, known as IBOC, but it dismissed or delayed action on several concerns ...NPR reporters challenge Zwerdling layoff
Zwerdling hopes his bosses will reverse their decision to end his job — and so do dozens of colleagues.NPR asks porn entrepreneur to drop KCRW from hold music
It was almost a landmark case: NPR vs. The World’s Most Downloaded Woman. The woman is Danni Ashe, a web-porn entrepreneur whom ...Content Depot: Getting audio gets flexible
This summer public radio will get a taste of an impending change in the technological status quo: the Content Depot. This far-reaching set ...‘The Tavis Smiley Show’: created for a black audience, but all are welcome
There’s a burden resting on the broad shoulders of this man who’s bopping his head to a funky beat, tongue out in a ...Public radio hails Rick Madden for life’s work
Rick Madden, who helped to reinvent public radio during 19 years at the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, succumbed to brain cancer Feb. 21. He ...Public radio hails Rick Madden for life’s work
Rick Madden, who helped to reinvent public radio during 19 years at CPB, died of brain cancer Feb. 21. He was 56. Madden Madden ...Record-breaking deejay shift: 100 hours in Jersey City
The 100 hours that made Glen Jones famous started and ended with a dream. To be precise, they started with “Impossible Dream” ...How ‘Studio 360’ frames art in human terms
Famous or obscure, the dancers, painters, musicians and others who appear on “Studio 360” speak first as people, then as professionals.Bill Siemering reflects on launching ‘ATC’, lessons from international radio work
"In the beginning, we were really not political radicals. But we were radicals for the medium of radio."KCRW’s Ruth Seymour: ‘The art is to keep yourself open to change’
. . . And the way she couples spur-of-the-moment decision-making and openness to change with highly principled management has prompted some to ...Intervention by Congress slashes LPFM licensing 80 percent
Low-power FM? Try nearly no-power. The scope of the controversial noncommercial service shrunk abruptly last month when Congress effectively cut the number ...LPFM rules still disputed; Congress may act
Applicants for low-power FM (LPFM) stations range from mundane (Sacramento’s Sutter Middle School) to exotic (the Women on Top Awareness Series of ...Suit resolved, MPR and PRI maintain ties
In settling its lawsuit over the ownership of Marketplace, Public Radio International secured its grip on its most popular programs. The agreement will ...
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