Quick Takes

  • Robert Krulwich is returning to NPR. “My feeling has always been that there’s a kind of imprinting going on if you do ...
  • Peter Sagal tells Chicagoist how he became host of Wait Wait . . . Don’t Tell Me!: “[L]ike a lot of public radio geeks, ...
  • Bill Moyers shares his side of a “sordid little story” about Kenneth Tomlinson, Paul Gigot, and the ideological battle over Now.
  • The Knight Foundation and PBS said today that Knight will give the network a $2.5 million challenge grant to launch a multicast ...
  • New York magazine culture critic John Leonard named David Grubin’s Destination America as the best nonfiction TV program of 2005. The four-part ...
  • Five rules from the NPR drinking game. There’s also the PBS pledge drive drinking game.
  • Sesame Workshop and New York-based cable provider Cablevision on Monday launched Sesame Street Games, an interactive video game service available to customers ...
  • Radio consultant John Sutton had a staticky introduction to owning a digital radio: “I tried everything I could to get a better ...
  • WDET-FM in Detroit has gone all-news during middays, replacing a mix of locally originated music. “Public radio listeners let us know they’re ...
  • A new report from Audience Research Analysis (PDF) begins to address public radio’s recent stagnation in audience growth by looking at some ...
  • “[T]he few extra bucks aren’t worth it.” PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler writes that WGBH and PBS erred by allowing the Las Vegas ...
  • The Traffic Directors Guild of America is completing its annual salary survey for traffic continuity, office and business managers in public and ...
  • CPB seeks to award a three-year contract to a distributor of programming to Native radio stations.
  • The audience of WETA-FM in Washington, D.C. is “smaller, no more generous than the classical audience was, and no more reflective of ...
  • CPB Chair Cheryl Halpern personally co-funded, with El Al Airlines, a joint exhibition of 61 paintings by 50 young Israelis and Palestinians, ...