Quick Takes

  • The weblog Brand Autopsy is devoted to public radio this week, with discussion of fund drive no-nos, Bob Edwards and other topics.
  • Gregory Nava turns the new season of American Family into a 13-part movie, sending the eldest Gonzalez son into the Iraq War, says Seattle P-I critic ...
  • CPB’s latest figures for public TV and radio’s total revenues, for fiscal year 2002, show the total continuing to rise to $2.28 ...
  • Public TV won eight Peabody Awards and public radio three, the University of Georgia announced today. Bill Moyers and Jay Allison’s Transom.org ...
  • Steve Bass, head of Nashville PTV, tells the Tennessean how the station could help emergency workers by datacasting information to them over the ...
  • When WQED flickered to life on April 1, 1954, it was the nation’s first community-owned educational television station. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette recalls the station’s ...
  • Some letter-writers to Salon stick up for Bob Edwards, but one, supposedly an anonymous NPR reporter, says “those of us inside the newsroom ...
  • Former Minnesota Public Radio host Katherine Lanpher is “the only person who appears to know what she’s doing” on Al Franken’s new ...
  • “It was Alistair Cooke’s idiosyncratic mix of the momentous and the everyday that captivated his British audience and turned his Letter from America into ...
  • Recent audience and membership declines at New Hampshire Public Television put the public TV network at a disadvantage against Boston powerhouse WGBH, ...
  • NPR’s home page has a new look and a note about it. Some inside pages display poorly in Mozilla Firefox for Windows ...
  • The morning show on Air America, the forthcoming liberal talk radio network, will be called Morning Sedition, according to an XM Radio release.
  • While some execs at public radio stations support NPR’s decision to find a new Morning Edition host, they are critical of the network’s handling ...
  • Alan Chartock, executive director of WAMC in Albany, N.Y. takes to his weblog to criticize what he calls NPR’s “bone head play” ...
  • Brian Lehrer, talk host at New York’s WNYC, explains in Newsday why he chose to interview Jayson Blair: “I felt that a public ...