Quick Takes

  • Jim Terr offers a new song, “Hands Off My NPR” (MP3, Windows Media also available). “You can do anything to my blue ...
  • Fitch Ratings affirmed Colorado Public Radio’s bonds as stable but has downgraded Nashville Public Radio’s bonds to negative, citing the station’s negative ...
  • Cheryl Halpern, a major Republican donor on the CPB Board, is likely successor to Ken Tomlinson as chair, the Washington Post reports. His term ...
  • The Senate Appropriations Committee today backed the addition of $111M to the $400M CPB advance appropriation for FY08 recently approved by the ...
  • CPB has released an RFP for public radio music programming. Proposals will compete for $1 million of the $6.4 million available this ...
  • An upcoming Masterpiece Theater will feature Rupert Everett as Sherlock Holmes, prompting the Washington Post‘s Lisa de Moraes to quip that the network “must now find ...
  • “‘[B]alance’ is not the whole story and supporters of public broadcasting should not take it as some sort of gold standard,” writes ...
  • Some newspapers misreported how much CPB Chairman Ken Tomlinson spent to hire lobbyists and commission Fred Mann’s report, CJR Daily points out.
  • The Public Radio Exchange Flickr stream offers a behind-the-scenes photographic peek into the innovative online content shop.
  • HearingVoices offers a pop quiz on radio with some questions related to public broadcasting.
  • Guests on yesterday’s Democracy Now! debated whether public broadcasting should be federally funded and other matters. (A nimble argument from David Boaz of the ...
  • CPB’s Inspector General will also investigate whether the agency’s hiring of Patricia Harrison as president was inappropriately conducted, according to Sen. Byron ...
  • “16 seconds of audible breathing from one hour’s worth of All Things Considered,” courtesy of artist Chuck Jones. (MP3. Via WFMU-FM’s excellent blog.)
  • The New York Times covers CPB Chairman Ken Tomlinson’s appearance in the Senate yesterday.
  • CPB’s new ombudsmen have so far found no political bias on their beat, but instead “have been positively glowing in their assessments ...