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Challenge to FCC indecency rules gets Supreme Court hearing
The Washington Post reports on the Supreme Court’s announcement yesterday that it will take up the Fox Broadcasting lawsuit challenging FCC policy ...Sawaya gets a positive review from one p.d.
The program director of Pacifica station KPFT-FM in Houston spent some time recently with Nicole Sawaya, who recently recommitted to serving as ...Could Barnicle appear on Boston’s WBUR?
The g.m. of Boston’s WBUR-FM tells the Boston Phoenix that he’s been talking with Mike Barnicle, the local columnist who faced accusations of plagiarizing ...Haarsager joins podcast interview
Gravity Medium points to a NewsGang podcast featuring Dennis Haarsager, now interim CEO at NPR, as well as Doc Searls, Steve Gillmor ...Spam, McDonald’s-style
Andy Carvin calls attention to an e-mail fraud scheme that uses the name of Joan Kroc, the philanthropist who gave NPR more ...Extended plans announced with Henry Louis Gates, Ken Burns
CPB, meeting with station leaders this week near Washington, announced extended funding for two pubTV stars, Ken Burns and Harvard’s Henry Louis ...Pubcasting donor says KCPW owners should play fair with local supporters
“In a moral sense or in a fair game sense, we who pledged on pledge drives and gave money to building the ...Get My Vote: NPR launches public beta website of user-generated content
Get My Vote, a new NPR website presenting user-generated content, launched in public beta yesterday. NPR’s Andy Carvin, who led development of ...Dvorkin on Stern’s ouster: NPR execs who ignore stations “do so at their peril”
“NPR’s weakness is that is has too often undervalued the quality of radio-ness in building the organization,” writes Jeffrey Dvorkin, former NPR ...What’s the hold-up in creating a legal system for licensing music for podcasts?
It’s inertia that’s preventing the music labels and other rights holders from setting up a system to legally incorporate music into podcasts, ...Money, not continued pubradio service, talks in bids for Salt Lake’s KCPW
There’s a bidding war going on for KCPW-FM/AM in Salt Lake City. Current licensee Community Wireless has told former g.m. Ed Sweeney ...FCC sets settlement deadline for first batch of MXed noncom FM applicants
The FCC will process its backlog of mutually exclusive applications for noncommercial FM stations by identifying and working through groups of MXed ...Many different takes on Stern’s exit from NPR
Gravity Medium has compiled a list of news reports and blog commentary on Ken Stern’s exit as NPR ceo. Here’s one that’s ...Haarsager responds to tech bloggers angered by Stern’s ouster
“This is not a coup by Luddite station CEOs who want to stop or slow down effective responses to [the] very types ...Does Andrew W.K. now get an obscure nickname?
Rocker Andrew W.K. has written a song for public radio’s Fair Game with lyrics based on the words of John McLaughlin, host of The McLaughlin Group. ...
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