Quick Takes

  • FCC FM Auction 37 rolls on, and Boston’s WGBH has the high bid of nearly $4 million on a channel in Brewster, ...
  • Radio for Milwaukee, a nonprofit, is expected to get approval from Milwaukee’s school board to manage the school system’s noncommercial FM station, ...
  • Two bidders in FCC Auction 37 are considering starting a public radio station in Marfa, Texas, reports the Odessa American.
  • Blogger Michael Petrelis learned that NPR news staffers Corey Flintoff and Michelle Trudeau donated to the campaigns of John Kerry and Howard ...
  • Garrison Keillor will launch Literary Friendships next year, a five-show series featuring writers who are friends talking about their work and relationships. Guests will ...
  • Bob Edwards tells the Boston Globe that he threatened to sue NPR over the network’s suggestions that he was booted from Morning Edition because he declined ...
  • “She’s not a lifestyle liberal,” says PBS host Tucker Carlson of Democracy Now‘s Amy Goodman, who appeared on his show Friday. “She’s actually interested ...
  • Following Alistair Cooke

    The BBC said it replaced the late Alistair Cooke’s Friday night Letter from America (at least temporarily) with A View from reports ...
  • “The Dead Hensons are a seven piece rock band exclusively covering the upbeat songs from early Jim Henson projects (mainly Sesame Street, ...
  • Pop Vultures host Kate Sullivan announced on Transom.org and her weblog that her show’s funders have decided to pull the plug. “The death of ...
  • The New York Times reviews Afghanistan Unveiled, a film created by young Afghan women who were trained as video journalists after the fall of the Taliban. ...
  • WESU-FM, the student-run station at Wesleyan University, will simulcast some programming from WSHU-FM in Fairfield, Conn. Students had resisted the plan, but ...
  • The University of North Dakota sold noncommercial KUND-AM to a Catholic broadcaster, reports the Grand Forks Herald.
  • Doug Bennet, president of Wesleyan University and a former president of NPR, has suggested that his school’s freeform radio station simulcast a ...
  • NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin looks at the network’s decision to remove All Things Considered host Michele Norris from recent political stories because her husband ...