Quick Takes

  • Even Brenda Starr is taking note of the CPB flap.
  • Audience share for WETA-FM in Washington, D.C., has dropped from a year ago, reports the Washington Times. The station changed to an all-news format ...
  • Tavis Smiley addresses the debate about balance in public broadcasting: “While Washington talks about ideological balance, Americans hunger to see programming that ...
  • The Cleveland Plain Dealer checks on WCPN-FM/WVIZ-TV four years after the stations merged and finds low morale and a struggling news department on the ...
  • Ten public interest groups have asked CPB for “increased openness and transparency in the way the CPB board operates and conducts its ...
  • Another article about the Prairie Home Companion movie, this one from the Washington Post. “It’s very difficult for him,” says director Robert Altman of his collaborator, ...
  • In a meeting with Washington Times staffers, CPB Chairman Kenneth Tomlinson defended his efforts to correct what he sees as a liberal tilt in ...
  • Writer Rick Moody critiques public radio at Transom: “Oh, here come the exotic sitars, to indicate that the story is from another part of ...
  • The Public Radio Exchange v. 2.0 has arrived.
  • In an AP profile, On the Media hosts Brooke Gladstone and Bob Garfield cite The Daily Show as a primary inspiration.
  • Columnist Nat Hentoff says CPB Chairman Ken Tomlinson demeans Bush administration leaders by implying they need his “ham-handed” defense from criticism on ...
  • The FCC has decided in favor of 14 Calvary Chapels seeking licenses for low-power FM stations. (PDF.) The National Lawyers Guild ...
  • The winning of an award from Jazz Week magazine has prompted KUVO-FM in Denver to relax its dress code, reports the Denver Post. (A dress code ...
  • Sharon Percy Rockefeller, president of WETA-TV/FM in Washington, D.C., has been diagnosed with colorectal cancer, according to FishbowlDC. She will receive treatment ...
  • David Boaz of the Cato Institute offers ten top reasons to privatize public broadcasting.