L.A. Observed reports that Sandra Tsing Loh will comment on her firing from KCRW-FM in Los Angeles on today’s Marketplace. In the Los Angeles Times, ...
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March 8, 2004
The Guardian features a lengthy profile of Garrison Keillor. “He must live like a 19th-century vicar having to write his sermon every week,” says ...
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March 8, 2004
Minnesota Public Radio has purchased a house which it will renovate and open to the public for tours, reports The Business Journals. ...
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March 8, 2004
WAMU-FM in Washington, D.C., brought back longtime volunteers for its latest fund drive, part of its efforts to move past its recent ...
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March 8, 2004
NPR’s Tavis Smiley tells the New York Daily News he would never have disgraced New York Times reporter Jayson Blair on his show because he’s “an ...
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March 5, 2004
Dee Davis, longtime Appalshop chief and producer of docs on public TV, helped fend off CBS’s “reality” remake of Beverly Hillbillies and now intends ...
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March 5, 2004
Chicago’s WBEZ-FM expands its reach to the southwest tomorrow with the signing-on of WBEQ-FM, a transmitter licensed to Morris, Ill.
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March 4, 2004
Santa Monica’s KCRW fired commentator Sandra Tsing Loh for using a four-letter word in her feature Feb. 29, the Los Angeles Times reported. (Registration ...
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March 4, 2004
Bet you didn’t expect that the brains behind the new Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights is Peter Sagal, host of NPR’s Wait, Wait . . . ...
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March 3, 2004
Seattle’s KEXP-FM will program KBTC-FM in nearby Tacoma, Wash., the stations announced today. Public Radio Capital purchased the station from Bates Technical ...
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March 2, 2004
Alistair Cooke, 95, has filed his last Letter from America and was absent from the BBC broadcast last week because of illness, the Observer reported. ...
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March 2, 2004
The marriage of Christopher Lydon and Minnesota Public Radio “sounds like a natural union,” says the Pioneer Press, but the two are still sizing ...
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March 2, 2004
The incoming board of the Pacifica Foundation inherits almost half a million dollars in debt for legal expenses, according to a report ...
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March 1, 2004
The late Joan Kroc was last year’s most generous donor, reports the Chronicle of Philanthropy. She gave more than three-quarters of her estate to ...
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February 27, 2004
Pointing pointedly in the direction of Janet Jackson’s chest, PBS chief Pat Mitchell painted public broadcasting as a “safe haven” for families ...