Quick Takes
Faith Salie: not your typical pubradio host
Faith Salie’s quick humor and willingness to express astonishment Valley-Girl style (‘Oh my God!’) gives Fair Game a “loosey-goosey” unpublic radio sensibility, ...New HQ, expansion plans for Youth Radio
Youth Radio‘s recent move into new headquarters allows the organization to pursue plans to expand its media training program and production output, ...1452 pubradio wannabes want your vote
Don’t miss your chance to vote in the first round of Public Radio Talent Quest, an online search for new on-air hosts. ...Tribune columnist says KPCW exec’s salary doesn’t jive with station’s mission
Non-profit leaders in Salt Lake City, including KPCW-FM founder Blair Feulner, have “figured out a way to get rich running companies that ...Mini-newscast on mini-screen
Deutsche Welle, Germany’s overeseas broadcaster, now offers “DW-TV News” one-minute hourly newscasts for cellphones in English or German, the Association for International ...NEH grants announced
New York’s WNET, Twin Cities PTV and WNED in Buffalo, NY, are among the most recent winners of National Endowment for the ...Webcasters ask federal appeals court to stall new rates
NPR and other webcasters asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit court to a stay the controversial royalty hike ...NPR’s Girshman headed to CQ
Peggy Girshman, managing editor of NPR’s Newsroom of the Future, has taken a new job at Congressional Quarterly, according to an internal ...Blogger looks for ways to short-circuit the flow of pubradio listeners’ contributions
Open Source’s appeal for listener donations prompted blogger Doc Searls of Linux Journal to write about the hassles involved in contributing to ...‘Open Source’ passing the e-hat
Open Source, the innovative two-year-old show that melds traditional radio with online interactivity, posted an S.O.S. appealing to fans for financial support ...Silicon Valley broadcaster Tom Fanella dies
Tom Fanella, president of KTEH in San Jose, Calif., for 19 years, died Monday of heart failure after fighting cancer for a ...Gaffney: Moderate Muslims getting “the Rosa Parks treatment”
Frank Gaffney, co-producer of the Islam vs. Islamists, is upset that his doc is not getting national carriage and that its new ...Gossip can travel slowly but persists
Word has reached Poland that Tinky-Winky may be gay — and possibly a threat to children. Reuters reported that a government official ...Sacramento station buys Stockton outlet
Sacramento’s Capital Public Radio has purchased its outlet in Stockton, KUOP, which it has operated for six years under an agreement with ...Street named for WETA founder
On Saturday, the government of Arlington County, Va., will name a street that runs past WETA’s offices after the station’s founder, the ...
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