Quick Takes

  • A Maryland state representative says he’ll ask the FCC for a hearing on the pending sale of a Christian station to WYPR-FM ...
  • The LA Times (subscription required) reports that religious broadcaster Daystar Television Network is has threated to sue over its lost bid for KOCE in ...
  • KPBS in San Diego is producing a radio version of California Connected, reports the San Diego Union-Tribune. KPBS and three other California stations already co-produce a ...
  • Iowa State University is planning to acquire a bankrupt FM station that could bring public radio to 44,000 unserved people, reports the Ames Tribune. ...
  • NPR’s Anne Garrels and a Frontline co-production were among the George Polk award-winners announced yesterday, reports the New York Times (registration required). (Via Romenesko.)
  • Technology vendors chosen by PBS for its new package of station automation hardware and software were announced today. The optional ACE package ...
  • NPR has closed its Tokyo news bureau and opened another in Hanoi, Vietnam, staffed by reporter Michael Sullivan.
  • The Stanley Foundation will cease producing its public radio show, Common Ground, April 30.
  • The freedom granted by online media is “something that newspapers can only dream about,” says Christopher Lydon in the Guardian.
  • Minnesota Public Radio announced yesterday that it will begin distributing almost all of its own programs, taking that business from longtime rep ...
  • A v.p. at WFPK-FM in Louisville, Ky., was suspended for three days after mouthing off to a journalist who had criticized program ...
  • On the Media co-host Bob Garfield critiques our image-obsessed media in The Washington Post: “On the altar of all-news-all-the-time has been sacrificed the permanence of history.”
  • “Kids can have a very wonderful relationship with ‘Arthur,’ but let’s face it: He’s an aardvark.” The Detroit Free Press ponders the absence of ...
  • In a Miami Herald editorial, J-school ethicist Edward Wasserman writes that the BBC’s report on weapons of mass destruction may have been more accurate ...
  • “Despite Beyond the Color Line‘s scholarly pedigree and A-list interviewees, it too often falls victim to that bland, earnest tone that dogs the PBS ...