Pittsburgh’s WQED-FM aims to remain a localized classical music station, “[b]ut the community is not holding up its part of the deal,” ...
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February 22, 2005
Listen to Current Senior Editor Karen Everhart‘s Feb. 18 appearance on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (RealAudio).
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February 22, 2005
“We like to have fun with the show and we like to be adventurous, but at bottom, we want to urgently illuminate ...
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February 22, 2005
Minneapolis Public Schools has rebuffed offers from Minnesota Public Radio to buy KBEM-FM, the school district’s financially troubled jazz station, reports the St. ...
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February 22, 2005
CPB President Kathleen Cox tells the Washington Post that, contrary to what PBS President Pat Mitchell and her spokeswoman have said, Cox did not ...
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February 18, 2005
“We feel strongly that the language of war should not be sanitized and that there is nothing indecent about its use in ...
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February 17, 2005
The New York Times reports that PBS’s identity crisis goes far deeper than the announcement by Pat Mitchell that she would step down next ...
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February 17, 2005
“I just wanted to make clear that I’ve got 15 months left on this job and let’s make this as constructive as ...
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February 17, 2005
CPB is accepting applications for the next funding round for digital radio conversion. The deadline is April 29.
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February 16, 2005
Pat Mitchell announced that she will leave her job as PBS president when her contract expires next year. News accounts in the New ...
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February 16, 2005
PBS President Pat Mitchell tells the Los Angeles Times that she’s troubled by criticisms from liberal advocacy groups. “They are our natural allies and ...
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February 15, 2005
CPB seeks a producer for a daily 4-6 hour Native music program that will be part of the American Indian Radio on ...
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February 14, 2005
WETA-FM in Washington, D.C., will switch to a news/talk format Feb. 28. The Washington Post‘s Marc Fisher accuses WETA and public radio at large ...
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February 14, 2005
In a letter to Congress, the National Association of Broadcasters restates its longstanding support of existing channel protections limiting the licensing of ...
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February 14, 2005
The website for James Dobson’s Focus on the Family reports on new public TV funding proposals. “What they want to do is ...