Quick Takes

  • A recent survey found that public broadcasting’s news reporting is the most trusted in the media, reports Broadcasting & Cable. (See the survey results ...
  • NPR has launched 16 new podcasts, including several online-only features and a revival of “On Words with John Ciardi,” last heard on Morning Edition ...
  • The University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., will seek a buyer for its noncommercial FM station, KUOP-FM. Capital Public Radio in ...
  • A recent Station Resource Group analysis of CPB data (PDF) suggests that public radio stations need to get serious about becoming more ...
  • At TV Barn, Aaron Barnhart comments on the Tomlinson affair and the lackluster output of CPB’s ombudsmen.
  • Seattle’s KEXP-FM will stop broadcasting on a Tacoma signal it had been leasing from Public Radio Capital. The station is seeking to ...
  • The FCC seeks comments on a proposal to create a low-power AM service.
  • WUNC-FM in Chapel Hill, N.C., is moving ahead with plans to produce a national talk show with Dick Gordon as host. Gordon ...
  • Sound Opinions, a long-running talk show about rock music that until now has aired on commercial radio, will jump to Chicago’s WBEZ-FM next month ...
  • Garrison Keillor’s traveling Prairie Home Companion will bypass its longtime home base, the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn., for at least the next ...
  • The Rev. James Dobson’s “Family News in Focus” website quotes “media critic Pat Trueman” calling for nonliberals to “step into the void” ...
  • In addition to the CPB probe, Kenneth Tomlinson is the subject of an investigation by the State Department’s inspector general, launched in ...
  • Pro-life groups are promoting PBS’s Nov. 8 broadcast of “The Last Abortion Clinic,” a Frontline documentary reporting on their movement’s success in limiting ...
  • Brooke Gladstone, co-host of On the Media, should have noted on a recent show that a journalist she was citing happens to be her ...
  • The Media Access Project filed petitions with the FCC to deny pending license renewals for commercial television stations in Chicago and Milwaukee. ...