Clear Channel is donating $25,000 to KBEM-FM, a financially troubled noncom in Minneapolis, reports the Star-Tribune. (Reg. req.)

The profile of KCRW-FM in Santa Monica, Calif., is growing nationally among offbeat bands, “the smaller record labels that promote them and ...

Michael Powell announced today that he will step down as chairman of the FCC effective in March, reports the Washington Post, among ...

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“Island at War,” a “gripping, poetic” five-part mini-series that begins Sunday on Masterpiece Theater, gets a thumbs-up from New York Times critic ...

The Washington Times pegs this mini-profile of NPR head Kevin Klose to Tavis Smiley’s recent departure.

Public radio’s Marketplace is opening a bureau at WUNC-FM in Chapel Hill, N.C., reports the Associated Press.

PBS will edit a scene of a nude woman being scrubbed down after a fictional chemical attack from the HBO-produced “Dirty War,” ...

Public radio humor in Sunday’s Get Fuzzy.

What came between NPR and Tavis Smiley? Howard Kurtz reports in the Washington Post that a letter from Smiley’s agent demanded that the network ...

Environmentalist Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and former EPA chief Christine Todd Whitman are among new commentators on PBS’s Now series, the producers announced. ...

Martin Scorsese, producer of a four-hour portrait of Bob Dylan to air in the PBS series American Masters in July, never met the guy, ...

NPR reporter Jason Beaubien tells the Poynter Institute’s Jill Geisler about covering the tsunami. “It taxes you as a radio reporter to ...

After a four-year hiatus, NPR producer Van Williamson has resurrected his variety show Radio From Downtown, reports the Baltimore Sun. Susan Stamberg and Carl Kasell star ...

Columbia Journalism Review criticized NPR for informing listeners that Slate, its partner on Day to Day, was reporting exit poll data throughout Election Day, and the webzine’s ...