Quick Takes
Philly mag flays WHYY
Philadelphia magazine runs a long, occasionally snide piece on WHYY and its well-compensated CEO, Bill Marrazzo. The writer takes aim at the ...Website helps stations share materials about analog shutoff
What can stations do to smooth the transition when analog TV transmission ends? PubTV’s Affinity Group Coalition has started a new website, ...Pacifica picks Sawaya as executive director
The board of the Pacifica Foundation unanimously named Nicole Sawaya executive director of the left-wing radio network at its meeting in Berkeley, ...What’s all this about Pandora.com?
Mark Ramsey interviews Tim Westergren, founder of Pandora.com. The Internet radio website was mentioned frequently during music and research sessions at the ...Lawmaker to push over-the-air performance royalty
Rep. Howard Berman (D-Calif.) plans to introduce a bill next month that would require over-the-air radio stations to pay performance royalties for ...CPB backs plans to build pubradio audience and major giving
To address the slowing in public radio’s audience growth, CPB put out an RFP today seeking someone to lead a systemwide consultation ...Iowa Congressman finds mistake in Burns’ WWII doc
Iowa Congressman Bruce Braley found a factual error in Ken Burns’ The War, reports Radio Iowa. In his description of “one of ...APMG to bring back classical format to Miami
Rebuffed last week in a bid to buy an FM outlet in the Washington, D.C., area, American Public Media Group has agreed ...What may become a frank and open chat with Jim Russell
The doctor is in. Jim Russell, the longtime radio producer who does business now as The Program Doctor, has just begun taking ...African-American museum already active online
More than 40 stories of black families recorded by the ongoing CPB-funded StoryCorps Griot Project are on the website of the Smithsonian’s ...Nine news Emmys for PBS shows
PBS received nine Emmys last night in the 2007 News and Doc ceremony in New York last night; CBS came in second ...Listening “won’t feel like a civic duty”
Jesse Thorn (“America’s Radio Sweetheart”) doesn’t mind that Esquire has listed his high-energy show, The Sound of Young America, in The Esquire 100. Esquire endorses it ...Election mash-up draws more than 1 million
The online build-your-own Democratic presidential debate–hosted by PBS’s Charlie Rose–has attracted more than 1 million users since it premiered on Sept. 13, ...Two-thirds of PTFP outlays to DTV
The Commerce Department’s Public Telecommunications Facilities Program announced its annual grants, grouped by state, this year totalling $22.4 million, two-thirds for DTV ...
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