A Minneapolis Star-Tribune writer questions whether Minnesota Public Radio needed to buy WCAL: “[I]t’s hard to understand how a virtual MPR monopoly in the ...

Staff and volunteers at KPFA-FM in Berkeley, Calif., are accusing the station’s recently elected Local Station Board of micromanagment and unmerited attacks ...

In The Nation, Eric Alterman, author of What Liberal Media?, concludes the funding of PBS’s Tucker Carlson and Wall Street Journal shows ...

A University of Wisconsin study finds that media ownership by national conglomerates doesn’t reduce local news coverage — in quantity, at least.

This article in the San Francisco Bay Guardian explores KALW’s FCC troubles and wonders why the city’s commercial stations aren’t being held to the ...

The school board in Austin, Minn., approved transfer of public TV station KSMQ to a new community nonprofit, the Austin Daily Herald reported. Consultant ...

St. Olaf’s College will sell WCAL to Minnesota Public Radio for $10.5 milliion, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reports. The college founded an AM ...

The Cartoon Network will launch a new block of preschool programs that aims to be “fun, funny, and fearless.” Humor is a ...

The Wall Street Journal will produce a new Friday-night roundtable, Journal Editorial Report, for PBS starting Sept. 17, WNET announced. The show has major funding from ...

In Bethlehem, Pa., the Lehigh Valley’s public TV and radio stations, WLVT and WDIY, are talking merger, the Morning Call reports.

Martha Stewart Living will offer public TV stations a new half-hour program sharing the name of its Everyday Food magazine, WETA announced this week. ...

Bob Wright, NBC Universal c.e.o. and now talent spotter, answered an indie dream by picking a documentary on capital punishment out of ...

The NewsHour‘s coverage of the Democratic National Convention is posting big audience gains for PBS, reports the New York Times.

The Washington Post has the details about Bob Edwards’ new XM Radio gig.

Bob Edwards is leaving NPR to host a morning show on XM Radio, reports NPR. The network’s initial reports that the show ...