Quick Takes

  • Public radio reporter and producer Kathy McAnally died March 24 of cancer. She was 55. This remembrance aired on San Francisco’s KQED-FM, ...
  • Rebecca Roberts, daughter of Cokie, will host a new local talk show on WETA-FM in Washington, D.C., starting this summer. (Second item.)
  • PBS ombudsman Michael Getler addresses viewer complaints about pledge programming and posts letters from pledge-weary pubTV fans in his most recent ...
  • CPB is accepting applications for another round of digital conversion grants to public radio stations.
  • Reverbiage is “a news feed aggregator featuring NPR News Headlines.”
  • CPB plans to launch a Station Renewal Project for pubradio stations that could fall short of new audience service criteria for Community ...
  • See Chicago Public Radio’s Torey Malatia get all Glengarry Glen Ross at his station’s pledge drive. Also, the station is offering a This American Life 100th ...
  • The San Mateo County Community College District will appeal the $15,000 indecency fine the FCC levied against KCSM-TV for naughty words uttered ...
  • The University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., has taken its public radio station off the market. The university was not satisfied ...
  • The Columbia Journalism Review looks at the case of Clark Parrish, a religious broadcaster whose companies snapped up hundreds of FM translators from the ...
  • New York’s WNYC-AM/FM is moving from the city’s Municipal Building into larger digs in lower Manhattan that will include a 3,700-square-foot performance ...
  • The Los Angeles Times reports that on April 17 Hollywood’s Egyptian Theatre will show free continuous screenings of The Armenian Genocide, the controversial documentary debuting on ...
  • Consultant Robert Paterson has been working with NPR on its series of systemwide meetings, New Realities. On his blog, he shares conversations ...
  • A new commercial AM/FM news-talk station in Washington, D.C., hopes to attract a chunk of public radio’s audience by combining a livelier ...
  • NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin says a recent NPR story took a condescending attitude toward small-town media.