A Station Resource Group analysis of recent financial data from public radio stations (PDF) shows increases in listenership, underwriting revenue and listener ...
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December 2, 2004
Mark Handley, president of New Hampshire Public Radio, will retire next October to sail across the Pacific Ocean with his wife, reports ...
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December 2, 2004
Rachel Buchman, a reporter at Philadelphia’s WHYY, resigned earlier this week after leaving a seething voice mail at the offices of Laptoplobbyist.com, ...
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December 1, 2004
The Supreme Court has denied the American Family Association’s request for a review of a lower-court decision that upheld the FCC’s point ...
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December 1, 2004
The New York Times covers Tavis Smiley’s departure from NPR. “We would argue that there’s more to be done, but his show was evidence ...
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December 1, 2004
The Boston Globe profiles Peter Fiedler, interim g.m. at WBUR-FM.
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November 30, 2004
Tavis Smiley will leave his NPR show Dec. 16. In an e-mail to stations, he appears to blame NPR for failing “to ...
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November 29, 2004
Milwaukee’s school board voted unanimously last week to outsource management of WYMS, their noncommercial station, to local nonprofit Radio For Milwaukee.
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November 29, 2004
“The common thread for us is secrets, that sense of revelation,” says Kitchen Sister Nikki Silva in a New York Times profile.
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November 29, 2004
A Minneapolis Star-Tribune columnist draws a distinction between the “corporate” nature of Minnesota Public Radio and the “small, funky and extremely local” stations in ...
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November 29, 2004
“Just how many conservatives does it take to balance out one wily progressive?” asks the Village Voice as it observes Bill Moyers’ departure from ...
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November 24, 2004
Vic Sussman, a longtime journalist and recently senior editor of Marketplace, died yesterday at the age of 65. The Washington Post remembers his curiosity and ...
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November 24, 2004
FCC Auction 37 has closed, with WGBH in Boston apparently the only pubcaster to emerge as a top bidder. The station is ...
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November 23, 2004
The Washington Post‘s Howard Kurtz profiles NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin and also notes the growing audience of the network’s On the Media (last item). (Via Romenesko.)
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November 22, 2004
KPBS in San Diego begins broadcasting to Calexico, Calif., today on a newly acquired FM frequency. Calexico and the surrounding area formerly ...