Quick Takes

  • Leaders of the Public Radio Partnership in Louisville, Ky., defend their decision to add more triple-A music to the schedule on one ...
  • Neil Steinberg of the Chicago Sun-Times spoofs “another blast of limp-wristed, angsty self-loathing” brought to him by NPR.
  • If you tell your 10th grade daughter that you’ve begun dating after the divorce, what does she want to know, besides the ...
  • Ted Turner and Oprah Winfrey, among Bill Gates and other tycoons, are among the 25 business leaders cited by public TV’s Nightly Business Report ...
  • Joseph Tovares, producer of the Feb. 2 American Experience doc about the Alamo, focused on Texas pioneer Jose Antonio Navarro, though he struggled with ...
  • Bill Siemering has created Developing Radio Partners, a nonprofit supporting independent local radio stations in burgeoning democracies. Board members include Jay Allison, ...
  • An FCC official says that a completed agency report headed for Congress includes recommendations on whether LPFMs could be sited closer to ...
  • A Seattle Weekly article about suicide revisits the death of Cynthia Doyon, a KUOW-FM host who killed herself last year. (Via Romenesko.)
  • If a lefty talk radio network succeeds, “maybe we could finally get Congress to stop using taxpayer dollars to subsidize NPR,” says ...
  • Ira Glass makes Newcity Chicago‘s list of “10 Chicagoans We Love to Hate,” with the author railing against “that nasally, whiney, apathetic drone affected ...
  • Bill Davis of KPCC in Los Angeles says an inaccurate article about Joan Kroc’s NPR gift hurt his station’s recent pledge drive ...
  • Minnesota Public Radio host Katherine Lanpher is being discussed as a “probable” co-host for comic Al Franken on a new liberal talk ...
  • A long Los Angeles Times profile of Frank Deford accuses the high-profile sportswriter and NPR commentator of broad hyperbole and a loose grasp of ...
  • The president of Joy Public Broadcasting opposed selling his station in Frederick, Md., to Baltimore pubcaster WYPR, reports the Baltimore Sun. “I don’t like ...
  • The Big Four commercial networks air 58 minutes of ads in primetime every night, 36 percent more than they did in 1991, MediaLife ...