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WMUB drops evening jazz, goes all-news
WMUB in Oxford, Ohio, is adopting an all news/talk format next week. The format switch moves longtime evening host Mama Jazz to ...Food and beverage marketers seek kids online
“The nation’s largest food and beverage companies spent about $1.6 billion in 2006 marketing their products to children [ages 2-17], according to ...Sen. Ted Stevens indicted
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), the longest serving GOP senator in U.S. history and a longtime pubcasting advocate, was indicted on federal corruption ...Backlash against Garfield’s take on online commenters
Bob Garfield tells On the Media listeners what he really thinks about the “frustrating, maddening and extremely discouraging” online feedback he often ...Network builder Jack McBride dies
One of public broadcasting’s master builders, Nebraska’s Jack McBride, died Monday from complications of lung surgery, the Lincoln Journal Star reported. He was 82. ...No such thing as “race transcendence,” says Smiley
“There is no such thing in America as race transcendence, and Obama’s going to find that out real soon,” says Tavis Smiley ...Next on eBay: Sting’s bass, Andy’s Fender Telecaster, Stewart’s drums
In the run-up to WNET/WLIW’s Madison Square Garden benefit concert Aug. 7 — the last performance of the reunion tour of The ...Bryant Park fans keep up the fight
Consultant Rob Paterson, a passionate fan of NPR’s soon-to-sign-off Bryant Park Project, has started The BPP Diner, a Ning site “where the ...Haarsager’s “joyless decision” on Bryant Park
Interim CEO Dennis Haarsager explains NPR’s decision to cancel Bryant Park Project to fans who are lobbying to save the show: “For ...“What’s wrong with WNYC?”
Village Voice columnist Nat Hentoff isn’t happy that WNYC has taken PRI’s “illuminating” To the Point off the air, and he’s unimpressed ...Nova ScienceNow: grotesque, tantalizing
“Take a little of the grotesque, a lot of the tantalizing and a heavy dose of friendly analogies, and you have Nova ...Newscasts provided for commercial station
Starting today, Santa Fe Public Radio (KSFR) will provide five newscasts every weekday to commercial KVSF-FM, owned by Hutton Broadcasting LLC, the Santa ...Jarvis: Forget the curmudgeons
Jeff Jarvis, blogger/professor/new media thinker, reprises his dismissive attitude toward old media “curmudgeons,” based on an experience he had at last weekend’s ...Grief and anger over Bryant Park cancellation
Fans of Bryant Park Project, NPR’s web-based morning news service for younger audiences, are describing the show’s pending cancellation as evidence that ...KPCW’s Feulner signs off, possibly forever
Blair Feulner, founder and longtime manager of KPCW in Park City, Utah, may have talked himself out of a job. During a ...
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