Quick Takes

  • 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,” ...
  • Listen to Current Senior Editor Karen Everhart‘s Feb. 18 appearance on The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (RealAudio).
  • “We like to have fun with the show and we like to be adventurous, but at bottom, we want to urgently illuminate ...
  • 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. ...
  • CPB President Kathleen Cox tells the Washington Post that, contrary to what PBS President Pat Mitchell and her spokeswoman have said, Cox did not ...
  • “We feel strongly that the language of war should not be sanitized and that there is nothing indecent about its use in ...
  • 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 ...
  • “I just wanted to make clear that I’ve got 15 months left on this job and let’s make this as constructive as ...
  • CPB is accepting applications for the next funding round for digital radio conversion. The deadline is April 29.
  • Pat Mitchell announced that she will leave her job as PBS president when her contract expires next year. News accounts in the New ...
  • 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 ...
  • CPB seeks a producer for a daily 4-6 hour Native music program that will be part of the American Indian Radio on ...
  • 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 ...
  • In a letter to Congress, the National Association of Broadcasters restates its longstanding support of existing channel protections limiting the licensing of ...
  • The website for James Dobson’s Focus on the Family reports on new public TV funding proposals. “What they want to do is ...