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ZNet: TOTN lacks antiwar voices
A writer for ZNet takes issue with the range of discussion regarding Iraq on NPR’s Talk of the Nation: “The program framework implicitly deigns ...Pacifica launches new website
Pacifica has launched a new and dramatically revamped website.Fewer consumers understand, want HD Radio
A recent Bridge Ratings survey found that more U.S. consumers know what HD Radio is since a previous June 2006 study, but ...Goldfarb on foreign coverage
“American society is ignorant of what is happening in the world because the managers of its news industry are relying on only ...CNAPR is now Native Public Media
The Center for Native American Public Radio has changed its name to Native Public Media and launched a new website. (PDF of ...Public By Choice launches
“Public By Choice is a multimedia, interactive project designed to educate the audience about the public radio system and offer the system ...TV violence may be next target for Congress, FCC
Reducing television violence may be the next thrust for Washington policymakers looking to expand the FCC’s regulatory powers. Anticipating the release of ...WETA switches back to classical music format
WETA-FM in Washington, D.C., resumed broadcasts of classical music last night in a format change that was closely coordinated with WGMS, a ...Woodruff to return to the “NewsHour”
After a stint as a NewsHour special correspondent, Judy Woodruff signs on full-time Feb. 5 as a senior correspondent and back-up anchor ...Glass to critics: “Public television is terrible”
During an appearance at the Television Critics Association press tour yesterday, This American Life creator and host Ira Glass explained why his ...WNET Board to vote on Bill Baker’s successor
The board of WNET in New York will vote this morning to appoint former NBC News President Neal Shapiro as successor to ...Sound of Young America gets props
Comedian Patton Oswalt, who stars on CBS’s King of Queens, told USA Weekend that public radio’s The Sound of Young America ranks among his favorite podcasts. Host Jesse ...Iowa Public Radio restores On Point
Complaints from listeners have prompted Iowa Public Radio to restore On Point to its weekday news lineup, reports the Des Moines Register. The network had replaced ...For PBS stars, it can be a life’s work
Bill Moyers, 72, resumes weekly appearances on PBS with a new Friday-night version of Bill Moyers’ Journal in April, he announced at the Television ...Carlson Sr. comes to Libby’s defense
Former CPB President Richard Carlson helped raise a $3 million defense fund for I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, the former aide to Vice ...
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