Quick Takes

  • We’ve added some new podcasters to our list, including Hearing Voices, Benjamen Walker and the Canadian Broadcasting Corp.
  • He’s no Elvis: The NPR fleece jacket purportedly worn by Bob Edwards has gone for $43 on eBay — $9 less than ...
  • Members of Metafilter discuss Minnesota Public Radio’s new KCMP, with reactions ranging from “Now I can finally listen to music on the ...
  • When you’re Ira Glass’s girlfriend, “you have to put up with a lot of him thinking about his job rather than what’s ...
  • The Philadelphia Inquirer (signup required) says WHYY has joined the pubTV stations planning to air the Postcards from Buster episode condemned by the U.S. secretary of ...
  • Alberto Ibargüen, chairman of the PBS Board, will serve as president of the Knight Foundation. (Foundation press release.) He will step down ...
  • The Vermont same-sex couples featured in the controversial Postcards from Buster episode regret that PBS will not distribute the episode, reports AP. “I feel ...
  • Floridian Dave Plotkin has apparently failed in his bid to break the world record for the longest continuous radio broadcast by a ...
  • In an article about his new PBS show, Robert Krulwich tells the New York Times that his onscreen goofiness “really isn’t an act.”
  • An eBay user is selling an NPR jacket that he claims was worn by Bob Edwards at his final staff retreat: “I’m ...
  • PBS execs say they decided to withdraw an episode of Postcards from Buster before Education Secretary Margaret Spellings officially notified them that its depiction ...
  • In one of her first acts as the new education secretary, Margaret Spellings denounced PBS for using its Ready to Learn grant ...
  • A deejay at Rollins College’s WPRK-FM in Winter Park, Fla., has unofficially set the world record for the longest continuous radio broadcast ...
  • “Podcasters may indeed revitalize the art of radio itself,” writes Tod Maffin at radiocollege.org.
  • Garrison Keillor tells the Seattle Times his worst-ever show was in Reno, Nev.: “Every time I turned around in Reno, I just saw pathological ...