Quick Takes

  • House Commerce Chairman Billy Tauzin (R-La.) turned down the top movie industry lobbying job and is said to have a better offer ...
  • Minnesota Public Radio is selling a commercial AM station and its parent company is selling a radio network, reports AP, for a ...
  • An AP article details Jefferson Public Radio’s plans to open a $10 million Western States Museum of Broadcasting in Redding, Ore., which ...
  • Patty Wente, g.m. at KWMU-FM in St. Louis, tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch she thinks underwriting rules should be relaxed: “Are you saying you ...
  • Lara Spencer, new host of public TV’s Antiques Roadshow, will discuss the show’s upcoming season tomorrow morning in a Washington Post web chat.
  • Public radio stations are hosting an online chat tomorrow night about this year’s presidential campaign.
  • NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin introduces a CPB-funded ethics guide for public radio journalists in his Media Matters column. “Having an up-to-date ethics guide will ...
  • A Sesame Workshop project to create special programming for Arab-American children founders from lack of financial support–and mistrust of mainstream media–among Middle ...
  • Early-aircraft enthusiasts and the producers of Nova are at odds over insurance proceeds from the crash of a Wright Brothers’ biplane replica in ...
  • Senators escaped having their votes recorded with a nonexistent voice vote on the war-related $87 billion bill, so NPR’s Daniel Schorr suggested ...
  • Lanpher watch update: Katherine L. will be Al Franken’s co-host as rumored, the St. Paul Pioneer Press reported today. She leaves a big gap ...
  • Public radio host and producer Chris Lydon tells Leonard Witt that dissatisfaction with mainstream news coverage has turned him into “one of ...
  • Minnesota Public Radio talk show host Katherine Lanpher announced today she’s leaving the network. The hunch is she’s joining lefty comic Al ...
  • The new PBS Kids series Boohbah may seem trippy to grown-ups, but the idea behind the show is to get preschoolers to jump ...
  • Brooke Gladstone, latest guest in Transom’s online forum, reveals how she and WNYC’s On the Media team rebuilt the show. Newsmags generally have had ...