Quick Takes

  • Pittsburgh’s WQED announced today that it will lease out its second channel to HSN’s America’s Store shopping network for three years, retaining ...
  • Execs at WOUB-FM in Athens, Ohio, changed the station’s format from news/classical to all-news in response to financial pressures, reports the Athens News. The ...
  • Jay Kernis, NPR’s senior v.p. of programming, answered questions about Bob Edwards from listeners today in an online chat. “The news demands ...
  • Monkey, a devoted public radio supporter, recently went on a tour of NPR’s headquarters (and sent this Current editor a postcard while in ...
  • A few months after listener complaints provoked “Car Talk” to switch its streaming audio to Windows Media Player, the program has returned ...
  • In an interview with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, NPR President Kevin Klose talks publicly about the reassignment of Bob Edwards—though he says little that ...
  • Michael Skoler, managing editor of news at Minnesota Public Radio, talks with Leonard Witt about the network’s efforts to involve the public ...
  • Jay Kernis, NPR’s senior v.p. of programming, will answer questions about Bob Edwards’ reassignment in a live chat on NPR’s website, Monday ...
  • Bill Marimow, incoming managing editor at NPR, tells the Buffalo News he wants to stress “excellent reporting, investigative and enterprise stories and in-depth work” ...
  • Queen Elizabeth, among others, has signed off on the hiring of Michael Grade as BBC chairman, the London Telegraph reported today. Grade, a ...
  • The organizer of the “Save Bob!” petition is now urging Bob’s backers to boycott NPR underwriters. He also wants them to ask ...
  • In letters to listeners posted on their websites, public radio stations are discussing the departure of Bob Edwards from Morning Edition. Jim King, director ...
  • “We have listened to a lot of Bob Edwards’ Morning Edition lying down in our beds but we should not take this dismissal from Morning Edition ...
  • Romanesko of Poyntless Online reports that Bob Edwards will deliver the voice of NPR’s telephone system after leaving Morning Edition.
  • More about Bob Edwards in the Chicago Tribune (reg. req.), in USA Today, on NPR’s On the Media and from the network’s ombudsman.