WOUB-FM in Athens, Ohio, dropped daytime classical music last week in favor of news, reports the Athens News.
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March 29, 2004
Linda Ellerbee views Edwards’ reassignment as a dis to boomers. A writer to the Washington Post also cites the “specter of ageism.” More: former Rewind ...
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March 29, 2004
In an online poll, 84 percent of 1,300 Seattle Times readers favor keeping Bob Edwards at the Morning Edition microphone; though he is actually a young ...
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March 27, 2004
Newspapers are finding public TV producers at work all over: investigating an old bayonet in Carlisle, Pa., for History Detectives, shooting historical sites in ...
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March 27, 2004
Jefferson Public Radio may take on management of its second old movie palace in the northern-California / southern Oregon region: the Loew’s ...
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March 27, 2004
NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin calls for simpler leads to stories and for fewer cliches, which crop up most often in reports from ...
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March 24, 2004
More on bye-bye, Bob: The demoted host tells the Washington Post that NPR programming veep Jay Kernis had said he wanted someone else in ...
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March 24, 2004
Just as the Sandra Tsing Loh flap seemed to be winding up, KCRW has released a letter Loh wrote the station the ...
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March 24, 2004
Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) is expected to become chair of the FCC-overseeing Commerce Committee, but the present chairman, John McCain (R-Ariz.), may ...
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March 24, 2004
Some lovers of classical music dislike Mississippi Public Broadcasting’s recent decision to dump some classical in favor of news and jazz, reports ...
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March 24, 2004
Get Fuzzy speculates on what you might hear on National Cat Radio.
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March 24, 2004
Sandra Tsing Loh will return to the Los Angeles airwaves–though with no profanity, even of the bleeped variety–on KPCC-FM, reports the Los Angeles Times ...
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March 23, 2004
Bob Edwards will leave Morning Edition April 30 to become a senior correspondent for NPR. He tells the Washington Post he would have preferred to stay ...
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March 23, 2004
The National Endowment for the Arts is looking to commission a study of audience and programming trends in classical music on radio. ...
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March 23, 2004
WETA President Sharon Rockefeller and doc film auteurs D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus will be honored April 22 by CINE, the filmmakers’ ...