Quick Takes
Maker of tainted toys kills himself
The owner of a Chinese factory hung himself after the company was blamed for using toxic paint on Sesame Street and Nickelodeon toys sent ...Trivedi keeps laying down Bricklane Beats
The Boston Globe profiles Komal Trivedi, a Public Radio Talent Quest contestant who was eliminated during Round 2 of the ...Gunman’s bullet narrowly misses KPFT dj
Early this morning, a gunman shot through an outer window of Pacifica station KPFT in Houston. The bullet came within 18 ...Variety on THE WAR scheduling
PBS should have thought more about courting viewers age 18-49 (“the demo”) when it scheduled The War, argues an August 9 article ...FCC proposes cap for NCE applicants
The FCC is inviting comments on a proposal to cap the number of applications that a single party can file for noncommercial ...OC Register: Pick not a protest
Ken Rusic, editor of the Orange County Register, says the editor who picked his nose on camera during a taping of KOCE-TV’s ...Sesame Street USA Today
In a story about Sesame Street‘s 38th season, USA Today reports that literacy will be “emphasized even more this year because of ...Citybeat pissed at KPBS
A writer at San Diego’s alt-weekly CityBeat rails on KPBS for canceling two locally-produced programs–the public affairs television program Full Focus and ...IPR’s classical service to launch next month
Iowa Public Radio’s Todd Mundt outlines plans for the network’s new classical music service, slated to launch Sept. 10.Manners made for print
KOCE-TV’s news partnership with the local newspaper, the Orange County Register, has hit a snag in the form of a crude saboteur. ...Pacifica roiled in a dispute over KPFK
Reporting by the Los Angeles Times on rancor within KPFK, Pacifica’s Los Angeles station, prompted this response from Pacifica Executive Director Greg ...PRTQ tests finalists’ interview skills
For Round 3 of the Public Radio Talent Quest, the seven remaining contestants conducted and sat for pubradio-style interviews. Listen, vote and ...KPBS producer laments loss of local shows
Pat Finn, producer of Full Focus, the local weekday public affairs show produced by KPBS-TV in San Diego, laments the station’s recent ...CPB gives MPR emergency grant to fund bridge coverage
CPB just gave Minnesota Public Radio an emergency $25,000 grant “for costs related to coverage of the collapse of the interstate bridge ...
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