Quick Takes

  • Improperly installed satellite radios are interfering with some listeners’ enjoyment of noncommercial radio, reports the (Allentown, Pa.) Morning Call.
  • Lamar Marchese, g.m. of Nevada Public Radio in Las Vegas, is retiring. Marchese co-founded the station in 1979.
  • Today Discovery Education unveils Cosmeo, the consumers’ version of its unitedstreaming service to K-12 schools. For a monthly subscription fee of less ...
  • The latest Audience 2010 report (PDF) sizes up the stalling of public radio’s audience growth and its impact on fundraising. This year’s ...
  • CBS’s Showtime Networks and the Smithsonian Institution announced plans for a Smithsonian On Demand service for cable TV and other multichannel distribution ...
  • Merlin Mann selects five more excellent public radio names.
  • Baltimore’s WYPR-FM aims to boost its wattage soon, a move which could drown out 10-watt WMUC-FM, the station operated by the University ...
  • Donovan Reynolds, who recently resigned as director of Michigan Public Media in Ann Arbor, says he prompted investigations of his station last ...
  • Phil Redo is leaving WNYC-AM/FM to return to commercial broadcaster Greater Media, where he will oversee five Boston stations. Redo is WNYC’s ...
  • Georgia Public Broadcasting has bought an FM station in Rome, Ga., reports the Rome News-Tribune. And in other station news, WDIY-FM in Bethlehem, Pa., ...
  • The latest Audience 2010 report (PDF) from the Radio Research Consortium finds Arbitron’s methodology to be reliable, which means it can’t be ...
  • The University of Michigan is investigating its public radio and TV stations after the abrupt resignation of director Donovan Reynolds, reports the Detroit ...
  • WFMU’s Professor checks in on the Satellite Sisters, formerly of public radio, and his words are not kind: “Some of the urgent ...
  • New York’s WNET will not air a controversial panel discussion that was scheduled to run April 17 after the doc, The Armenian ...
  • Public radio can’t blame competition from satellite radio for its recent audience slump, according to the latest installment of the Radio Research ...