NPR will invest $15 million over the next three years in news programming, the network announced today. The money comes from the ...

KVCR-FM in San Bernardino, Calif., may drop A Prairie Home Companion, reports the San Bernardino County Sun. Larry Ciecalone, g.m. of KVCR, tells Current that a new ...

The Christian Science Monitor writes up low-power FM and, in an editorial, backs the Senate bill that would expand LPFM.

Appearing on On the Media, New Yorker writer Ken Auletta says CPB’s decision to back new shows with conservative hosts, but not Bill Moyers’ Now, exposes an ...

The big religious broadcaster Daystar Television has bought its second public TV station in recent months — WTBU in Indianapolis, sold by ...

Comcast is in advanced negotiations to create a 24-hour preschool channel with PBS and producers of Barney and Sesame Street, according to a Wall Street Journal report ...

Democracy Now host Amy Goodman sat down for a long interview with C-Span’s Brian Lamb on Booknotes.

Public Radio International will distribute Odyssey, the weekday talk show from WBEZ in Chicago, beginning July 1.

The Washington Post‘s Marc Fisher details why Washington, D.C., has almost no college radio stations.

The Weekly Standard discusses at length the tensions between news/talk and classical programming on public radio. Audience researcher David Giovannoni says a lot of ...

Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) introduced a bill Friday that would allow more low-power FM stations to get on ...

An analyst tells Forbes that the market for digital radio will start to pick up next year or in 2006.

The war in Iraq–especially the Abu Ghraib prisoner scandal–have eclipsed Bono and Janet Jackson, the New York Times reports. This article says indecency legislation ...

Rising program costs have prompted WRVO-FM in Oswego, N.Y., to drop some PRI shows and consider axing The Splendid Table, reports the Syracuse Post-Standard. MPR will ...

Dick Gordon, host of public radio’s The Connection, lives across the street from boss Jane Christo in a home full of “extraordinary international furnishings ...