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Bill McCarter, chief exec of independent-minded WTTW/WFMT, Chicago
Bill McCarter, who headed Chicago’s WTTW for 27 years before retiring in 1998, died of complications from cancer April 21. He was ...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 ...What Jon Rice gave to viewers and to friends
Jon might say that his prime legacy is this television station. What Jim Day and Jon Rice created from nothing more than ...Public TV programming ‘giant’ Jonathan Rice gone at 84
Jonathan C. Rice, the storied program director and co-founder of KQED-TV in San Francisco, died July 22 [2001] at the age of ...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” ...Award honors not only a leader but a philosophy of service
With this year’s Edward R. Murrow Award, CPB not only honored Richard H. Madden as key leader in public radio, but also affirmed ...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."Audio producer David Isay: Curiosity . . . respect . . . trust
... David Isay, along with a growing number of gifted documentary-makers, are now experiencing the satisfaction of creating serious inquiries into contemporary ...James Yee succumbs after long struggle with cancer
James T. Yee, former executive director of the Independent Television Service (ITVS) died March 17 in Piedmont, Calif., after an 18-month battle ...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 ...A radio woman’s tale: reclaiming her voice
All of these years, Diane Rehm’s voice: the vehicle for ordinary sentences she enunciates so emphatically that they carry their utmost weight. ...Rumors rampant as Ottenhoff steps down
Chief Operating Officer Bob Ottenhoff is leaving the No. 2 position at PBS after eight years working for Ervin Duggan and the ...Marian McPartland: still going full tilt
When the NPR-distributed program Piano Jazz had its 20th anniversary in 1999, Current Contributing Editor David Stewart wrote this profile of the program and its host. ...Henry Hampton: ‘He endured because his vision was so important’
Henry Hampton, the visionary filmmaker who documented the history of the civil rights movement with the landmark PBS series Eyes on the Prize, died ...
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