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Sam Husseini: Can Pacifica Live Up to Its Challenge?
Sam Husseini calls for a more vital and powerful Pacifica Radio network. “What needs to be scrutinized is the collusion of incumbent ...NPR’s ‘Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me!’ You Can’t Make This Stuff Up. Or Can ...
The New York Times profiles NPR’s Wait, Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me!” “The ability of the people on the show to think on their ...courant.com: From Bach To Talk
Connecticut Public Radio in Hartford has replaced midday classical music with local and national news and talk programming. Execs tell the Hartford Courant that ...PHC film review
The film adaptation of A Prairie Home Companion offers “the pleasant addition of [Robert] Altman’s trademark layered improv by celebrity actors and the unsettling ...Pubradio engineers form association
Public radio engineers are forming their own association, reports Radio World. The Association of Public Radio Engineers will advocate “good engineering practices,” develop training ...Lazar out at Capital Public Radio – sacbee.com
Michael Lazar has stepped down as president of Capital Public Radio in Sacramento, reports the Sacramento Bee. Citing unnamed sources, the paper reports that ...Classical music lives
A New York Times article presents evidence to counter arguments that classical music is withering away. “One way to keep the gloomy reports in ...Editorial page battle over LPB investigations
Defenders and critics of Louisiana Public Broadcasting wage battle on the pages of the Baton Rouge Advocate over the significance of recent ethics ...At Casa Keillor
The New York Times writes up Garrison Keillor and his seven-bedroom Georgian home in St. Paul, Minn. “The house is so grand that Mr. ...Deaths of Iowa tower service workers
Workers making routine repairs to an 1,100 foot Iowa Public Television broadcast tower fell to their deaths on Wednesday, reports the Des Moines Register.Bill Johnston obituary
Bill Johnston, a former productions chief at Georgia Public Broadcasting, died of a heart attack May 25. He was 64. Colleagues told ...KUOW’s “escape hatch”
The Seattle Weekly reveals an unusual aspect of the deal for KXOT-FM in Tacoma, Wash., between Public Radio Capital and Seattle’s KUOW-FM. “If it ...Charlie Rose – A Prairie Home Companion / Daniel Gilbert w/ Harold Varmus – Google ...
Rolling Stone film critic Peter Travers, filling in for Charlie Rose, interviews Garrison Keillor and Robert Altman about the film adaptation of A Prairie Home Companion ...Robert Paterson’s Weblog: Future of Public Radio – A Parable Part 1 – “The Members”
Consultant Robert Paterson relates the tale of his recent 300-kilometer bike ride and explains how it ties into his work with NPR ...RadioSutton: Time to Make Station Health Public Radio’s Number One Priority
John Sutton proposes a goal for increasing listening to public radio: “By the end of 2010, 75% of all public radio stations ...
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