The FCC’s April 15 request for comments on rule changes required for digital radio is online. (PDF.)

Former WFMU DJ Douglas Wolk looks at filthy words and the FCC’s shifting definition of profanity in this Village Voice essay.

The FCC will hold an auction for nonreserved FM spectrum Nov. 3 that was postponed from 2001. (PDF.) The auction was delayed ...

Roger Chesser, outgoing g.m. of WUKY-FM in Lexington, Ky., looks back on his career in the Lexington Herald-Leader.

BBC America reaches less than half of US cable homes but it’s earning notice with its mix of edgy British fare. “We ...

Arguing that cable must-carry rules for DTV would be a huge giveaway to broadcasters, progressive groups are asking Congress and the FCC ...

Orlando Sentinel TV critic Hal Boedeker urges anyone with $6 million in spare change to aid Masterpiece Theatre: “Won’t someone step forward and save TV’s classiest ...

Lefty columnist Norman Soloman challenges Jim Lehrer to “set the factual record straight” on a (mis)statement he made during an April 7 NewsHour ...

Thirteen stations around the country are using KQED’s “You Decide” feature on their websites, says the University of Maryland’s J-Lab Director Jan ...

The FCC asked for comments today on the rule changes required as radio moves to digital broadcasting. (PDF.) The commission specifically asked ...

NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin sizes up Air America, the liberal talk radio network, in his latest column: “NPR would do well to ...

Democracy Now host Amy Goodman talks with “Book Babe” Margo Hammond: “The media has simply served as a conveyer belt for the lies of ...

Sponsorship Group for Public Television, WGBH’s new national underwriting sales group, launched a new website at sgptv.org. The group reps Sesame Street and Barney & Friends ...

Two segments from a new pilot episode of Public Radio Weekend have been added to the show’s website.

PBS and APTS announced today that Cox Communications, the fourth largest cable operator, has agreed to carry pubTV stations’ HD and multicast ...