Quick Takes

  • Penn State’s pubTV and radio stations in Happy Valley dedicate their new building Sept. 8 and the TV station adopts the radio ...
  • Public radio “just isn’t set up for innovation and it isn’t set up to cultivate new ideas and it isn’t set up ...
  • WUKY-FM in Lexington, Ky., restored Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac to the air Friday, shortly after canceling the segment because of concerns about “decency.” The ...
  • Public Radio International will furnish Duke University with digital versions of some of its shows for use in classes, according to the Chronicle ...
  • Democracy Now host Amy Goodman and her brother, David, have asked that the New York Times and a late reporter, William L. Laurence, be stripped of ...
  • Radio researcher Mark Ramsey warns against overusing digital radio for the creation of new formats: “Just because we can thin-slice a format ...
  • Marketplace will increase reporting on global sustainability and the economy with a $2.1 million grant from the Tides Foundation. The money will also ...
  • A Los Angeles Times story lays bare Ira Glass’s struggle to bring his radio show to television: “Time and again, Glass seemed unable to ...
  • Dick Gordon, former host of public radio’s The Connection, writes in the Boston Globe on the show’s last day: “I’m still bewildered as to why the ...
  • Public TV’s Now hired Maria Hinojosa as senior correspondent. Hinojosa will continue hosting public radio’s Latino USA.
  • Chicago’s WBEZ declined to sell underwriting to a local Air America affiliate, reports the Chicago Sun-Times.
  • Ken Tomlinson’s chairmanship of the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors, overseer of VOA and other overseas broadcast units, compares with his guidance ...
  • Three journalists quit a health program project at Connecticut PTV after top managers pressed them to interview execs of a hospital that ...
  • Iowa’s Board of Regents hired Cindy Browne as the first executive director of Iowa Public Radio today. Browne, a Minneapolis consultant, longtime ...
  • The FCC granted a request by the Station Resource Group to extend the deadline for filing comments on its proposed low-power FM ...