Quick Takes

  • A Wired article looks at “Walkman Busting”, an occasional segment on public radio’s The Next Big Thing.
  • The Pacifica network has wrapped up elections for its station boards and national board, the first to be held since activists gained ...
  • Jim Russell, executive producer of the forthcoming Public Radio Weekend, takes another stab at explaining the sound and feel of the show.
  • NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin addresses Wal-Mart’s underwriting on NPR and a spoof of The Passion that upset some listeners in his latest “Media Matters” ...
  • The LA Times reports that trustees of the Coast Community College District, the licensee of KOCE, are considering whether to keep the Orange County ...
  • The American Psychological Association called on federal regulators to restrict advertising to children aged eight and younger. Research indicates that young kids ...
  • Common Cause is urging people to ask their lawmakers to support public broadcasting.
  • Public TV and radio host Rudy Maxa has moved to Minnesota to live with his fiancee, who he says is a “great ...
  • Producer Bob Malesky remembers an NPR arts show that wasn’t: a collaboration with author John Gardner that never got off the ground.
  • In a brief report last week, the FCC forwarded to Congress results of an earlier study on low-power FM. The Commission seconded ...
  • The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced today that it will spread $15 million among 16 rural public TV stations to help them ...
  • “There are enough fine children’s entertainments being made that there is no excuse for Clifford’s Really Big Movie, a really lame attempt to expand ...
  • Bill Moyers will retire from TV journalism in November, after the elections. He plans to write a book about President Johnson, whom ...
  • Iowa regents unanimously approved the request of WOI in Ames to bid on a bankrupt FM station, reports the Iowa State Daily.
  • Orange County’s Coast Community College District is sounding antsy about delays in its sale of KOCE to the station’s nonprofit arm, judging ...