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Former college radio director arrested for embezzling
New Jersey police arrested the former director of Seton Hall University’s WSOU-FM on charges of embezzling more than $500,000 from the university ...BBC offers more listener control
BBC’s free iPlayer not only offers downloads of the past week of the TV network’s programs but also the listeners’ own choice ...Ten Primetime Emmy nods for “Bleak House”
Bleak House leads PBS’s slate of programs nominated for Primetime Emmys. The Masterpiece Theatre miniseries received nominations in 10 categories and American Masters drew 9 Emmy nods. PBS ...The Long Tail
The New Yorker finds a few “blind spots” in The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson, the ...ContentDepot rolls out this month
NPR’s Public Radio Satellite System rolls out the ContentDepot this month after almost two years of delays, reports Radio World. “ContentDepot promises to simplify ...Journalism as an act of patriotism
Viewer responses to Frontline‘s “The Dark Side” and a botched NewsHour interview prompt PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler to expound on the patriotism of journalists.Couric should try what NPR and PBS do
What should CBS and Katie Couric do with the Evening News? On CBS’s site, guest columnist William Powers from the National Journal ...Om-buddies? Not really.
“Comments continue to drift in about the PBS program on the Armenian genocide,” CPB ombudsman Ken Bode writes in his latest column, ...WNET eyes capital campaign to finance its expansion
With the election of financier James Tisch as chairman of Educational Broadcasting Corporation — and Paula Kerger’s recent departure as executive v.p. ...Douridas charged for cocaine possession
Chris Douridas, a deejay at KCRW-FM in Santa Monica, Calif., was charged yesterday with one count of cocaine possession, reports the Los Angeles Times. ...Digital Distribution Consortium for pubradio convenes
Todd Mundt writes that stakeholders in public radio have formed a Digital Distribution Consortium to map a shared digital infrastructure for the ...KOOP rebuilds
KOOP-FM in Austin, Texas, is building new studios after two fires destroyed the community station’s old home and knocked it off the ...In Texas, Fighting to Keep Brahms on Air – New York Times
Lovers of classical music are fighting to keep KTPB in Kilgore, Texas, on the air, reports the New York Times. “Just because we live ...Study: Few consumers know that HD Radio offers multicast capability
A radio audience research firm found that only one percent of respondents to a telephone survey knew that HD Radio can provide ...Boing Boing: This American Life / podcaster flap: former intern rebuts.
At Boing Boing, a former intern with This American Life weighs in on a debate over unofficial podcasts of the show. Thanks to this ...
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