Quick Takes

  • The Italian government proposes to sell 30 percent of its big pubcaster, RAI, reports Britain’s Observer. Legislation forbids any shareholder from owning more ...
  • Longtime TV correspondent Ed Gordon will start a show replacing Tavis Smiley’s on public radio, said NPR and the African American Public ...
  • Garrison Keillor has promised to deliver “a quiet and thoughtful Lutheran pastor” plus the “entire Prairie Home Companion complement” on a one-week circular Holland ...
  • The Iowa Board of Regents on Thursday endorsed a report that calls for Iowa’s three university-based radio stations, WOI, WSUI/KSUI and KUNI/KHKE, ...
  • More Tavis: The now ex-NPR host tells Salon in a Q-and-A that the network is “not National Some-of-the Public Radio, it’s National ...
  • Have you heard? Bill Moyers will make his final appearance as host of PBS’s Now tonight. Today’s litany of Bye to Bill ...
  • Minnesota Public Radio programmers described their new format for their just-acquired third Twin Cities station as an “anti-format” for younger ears that ...
  • “Nothing is pushing me, but something is pulling me, and I don’t know what that is.” Bill Moyers, who delivers his last ...
  • “In the rush to proclaim [Bernard] Kerik the next secretary of Homeland Security, NPR sounded as though it were reporting on behalf ...
  • Jim King, founder of the Cincinnati-based X-Star public radio network, will retire next year. “We’ve done what no one else said could ...
  • The Boston Globe reports that Boston University officials and the attorney for Jane Christo, former g.m. of WBUR-FM, disagree over who wielded the most ...
  • “The real key is you want to get them up and moving but you don’t want them to turn their heads from ...
  • WDUQ-FM in Pittsburgh is replacing its transmitter, going digital and expanding its signal eastward with repeaters, reports the Pittsburgh Post-Gaztte.
  • Media reform advocate Jeff Chester challenges PBS’s panel on enhanced funding to consider whether public TV deserves the gift of auction spectrum ...
  • In the Village Voice, WFMU deejay Irwin Chusid discusses his championing of outsider musicians.