A ruling on the fate of KALW-FM in San Francisco is expected later this month, reports the East Bay Express. Station execs are accused ...

Seattle’s KEXP-FM went ahead with plans to lease a signal in Tacoma despite opposition from many senior staffers, reports the Seattle Weekly. The station ...

An Editor & Publisher columnist suggests that newspapers might get a new lease on life by emulating public broadcasting’s nonprofit model.

Conservative columnist George Will takes aim at congressional plans to subsidize DTV converter boxes. “Call it No Couch Potato Left Behind,” ...

NPR’s entry into podcasting is going “spectacularly well,” says Ken Stern, executive v.p., in Radio World. (Earlier coverage in Current.)

Pubradio consultant John Sutton ponders the idea of “news fatigue” in his latest blog post. “‘News fatigue’ sounds like a handy answer ...

Media activist Jeff Chester of the Center for Digital Democracy has asked PBS’s new ombudsman to see whether the network’s underwriting rules ...

Peggy Girshman, NPR’s assistant managing editor, shares a recipe for tri-color butter cookie swirls in advance of the annual NPR Cookie Day.

NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin reads a 1988 article about NPR and laments that his network has lost some of its past quirkiness.

The Bergen (N.J.) Record profiles WFMU-FM in Jersey City, N.J., and music director Brian Turner. “One of the things I really love about music ...

The Chicago Tribune reviews Sound Opinions, a rock-criticism radio show that jumped from commercial radio to Chicago’s WBEZ-FM last weekend. The debut “kept things punchy and ...

A recent This American Life segment about Africa (RealAudio) dismayed a blogger with experience in the country. “In the only story in 2005 I ...

In a farewell delivered on the final installment of PBS’s Journal Editorial Report, Paul Gigot thanked his producers, former CPB Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson and ...

In his first column as PBS ombudsman, Michael Getler faults PBS and producers of Breaking the Silence: Children’s Stories for a “flawed presentation.” He ...

New York’s WNYE-FM is simulcasting music programming from XM Satellite Radio, reports Radio and Records. (Via DCRTV.)