Quick Takes

  • New laws raising indecency fines are worrying some smaller broadcasters, including noncoms, reports The Oregonian.
  • The Washington Post profiles Joan Kroc, the unorthodox philanthropist who left NPR $200 million in her estate last year.
  • A Reuters article on Internet radio mentions KEXP and WAMU’s BluegrassCountry.org.
  • Also coinciding with the recent ruckus over broadcast indecency, KPCC-FM in Los Angeles cancelled The Play’s the Thing, a radio theater series, last month ...
  • The Los Angeles Times reports that religious broadcaster Daystar submitted a new bid to purchase Orange County public TV station KOCE. Meanwhile, a pending ...
  • Don Lockett, formerly NPR’s chief technology officer, has written The Road to Digital Radio, a “management level overview” of the technology.
  • Public Radio Program Directors rescheduled its conference this fall to avoid a conflict between its old dates and the observance of Yom ...
  • Sandra Tsing Loh briefly discussed her recent firing from KCRW on last night’s On Point, a show produced at Boston’s WBUR-FM. (RealAudio; Loh starts ...
  • Anxieties over anti-breast fever in Washington prompted American Experience to re-edit a love scene in its upcoming documentary about Emma Goldman, according to the Washington Post.
  • The American Prospect previews the forthcoming Air America Radio, the talk radio network aimed at liberals that has so far hired away four denizens ...
  • Minnesota Public Radio is seeking applications for its Classical Music Initiative, an NEA-backed project to incubate new ways of presenting classical music.
  • The New York Observer discusses the return of Kurt Andersen–host of public radio’s Studio 360–to the pages of New York magazine, which he formerly edited.
  • PBS’s American Experience plans a three-hour film on the history of Las Vegas, according to the Miami Herald.
  • PBS is demanding that KCTS-TV pay $3.2 million in back dues, reports the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. President Bill Mohler is appealing to viewers for help.
  • Listen to or read Sandra Tsing Loh’s Marketplace commentary about getting fired from KCRW-FM in Santa Monica, Calif.