Quick Takes

  • “For the first time ever, hit prime time shows can be purchased online the day after they air on TV,” Disney’s new ...
  • “I’m with people who love radio,” says Bob Edwards of his XM Satellite Radio gig. “NPR is run by newspaper people. Sometimes ...
  • “Finding the Future of Public Television” is the topic of a day-and-a-half workshop backed by CPB in Los Angeles on Friday and ...
  • Radio World lists several noncommercial radio licensees, including WAMC-FM in Albany, N.Y., who received licenses after the FCC resolved conflicting applications.
  • Ron Della Chiesa will step down next month as the weekday morning classical music host on Boston’s WGBH-FM, reports the Boston Herald. He has ...
  • Longtime Prairie Home Companion sponsor Lands’ End has ended its underwriting deal with the show, reports the (Madison, Wis.) Capital Times.
  • Josh Kornbluth, host of a quirky new local series and weblog for KQED-TV, dreamed of being an NBA point guard, but he ...
  • CPB seeks a firm to help with developing public radio services for Latinos in Los Angeles.
  • “A lot of people probably don’t know me or haven’t heard about me and are not used to having this additional channel ...
  • Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of the left-wing weekly The Nation, picked up on a senator’s jibe at Ken Tomlinson, suggesting that CPB put $5 ...
  • NPR will beef up coverage of the southern U.S. with a reporter stationed in Nashville, reports the Nashville City Paper.
  • WUNC-FM in Chapel Hill, N.C., hopes to launch a national talk show hosted by Dick Gordon, former host of The Connection. A plea for ...
  • Michael Getler, who holds the position at the Washington Post, will become the first ombudsman for PBS. Getler worked for the Post 26 years, reporting ...
  • There’s a LiveJournal community for public radio fans.
  • “I am by definition a reporter. Not an editor, not a publisher. A reporter,” says NPR Co-Managing Editor Bill Marimow in the Johns ...