Quick Takes

  • An NPR listener complains to ombud Jeffrey Dvorkin that applause often follows audio clips of President Bush, but not Sen. John Kerry. ...
  • Boston’s WBUR-FM is selling WRNI, its Rhode Island station. The Providence Journal condemns the decision: “The people who have been so generous in funding ...
  • The Cincinnati Business Courier profiles WGUC-FM.
  • In a Sept. 11 address to the Society of Professional Journalists, Bill Moyers looks back on his career and affirms the importance ...
  • A Houston Chronicle editorial praises Tavis Smiley for his $1 million donation to Texas Southern University.
  • The New York Sun celebrates CPB’s $4.5 million subsidy of the new TV series featuring the Wall Street Journal‘s editorial writers. Journal Editorial Report debuts this Friday on ...
  • NPR and PBS host Tavis Smiley gave $1 million to Houston’s Texas Southern University to support a communications school named after him, ...
  • A Indiana broadcaster’s attempt to force timeshares with educational stations is “an affront to the taxpayers,” says a former educator in the Indianapolis Star.
  • Triplearadio.com interviews Judy Adams, p.d. of WDET-FM in Detroit.
  • Actress Susan Sarandon will host the upcoming season of Independent Lens, which begins Oct. 26 on PBS.
  • “Friends of mine at WDUQ, I thank you for helping me to kill my television,” writes a University of Pittsburgh student in ...
  • Users of Audible.com can now subscribe to Public Radio International’s BBC Newshour, Brain Brew, Whad’Ya Know? and The Next Big Thing.
  • Citing a poor funding climate for arts programming, WGBH cancelled Art Close Up, a pared down version of its Emmy-winning series Greater Boston Arts.
  • WTVS President Steve Antonniotti disputes an unflattering analysis of efficiencies in public TV fundraising. The analysis by Forbes (page down) juxtaposes compensation for ...
  • The Buffalo News profiles Terry Gross, whose latest compilation of interviews came out yesterday. Her guests show “how many ways there are of living ...