“I want to use this show … to introduce Americans to each other,” says Tavis Smiley of his public TV show, debuting ...

Conflict with General Manager Steve Spencer and other tensions prompted at least five employees to leave WYSO-FM in Yellow Springs, Ohio, in ...

Samuel Freedman in USA Today lauds the radio documentary form, “a rebellion against the numbing conformity of commercial radio” and a style that he ...

WFPK-FM in Louisville, Ky., might alter its plans to cut back on weekday jazz programming, reports the Louisville Courier-Journal. The station angered jazz fans ...

StoryCorps, the latest project of independent producer David Isay, has drawn 300 people to its Grand Central Station booth for interviews since ...

New York Times Magazine profiles Anne Wood, creator of Teletubbies and now Boohbah, who studies videos of kids watching the programs in their homes to add to ...

Common Cause last week criticized the appointment of big Republican donors Cheryl Halpern and Gay Hart Gaines to the CPB Board. Chair ...

The public TV operation in Richmond, Va., Community Idea Stations, will devote the early afternoon of its second over-the-air channel to state ...

Starting in January NPR will distribute Creators at Carnegie — a 13-part “genre-busting” series based on a concert series of Nonesuch Records artists performing ...

After accepting the KOCE Foundation’s bid for the Orange County public TV station, Coast Community College District greatly reduced the effective price, ...

The Village Voice declares Now with Bill Moyers one of television’s top achievements in 2003. (Via randomWalks.)

Noncoms KPLU, WXPN and WBUR are among webcasts with the highest TSL ratings for the week of Dec. 1, as ranked by ...

Public radio’s Jim Nayder talks annoying holiday music with Newsweek. Most annoying perennial: “The one song that seems to stand the test of ...

The Washington Post‘s ombudsman examines his paper’s coverage of the WAMU crisis.

After steering KCTS through a major downsizing, interim chief Bill Mohler agreed to lead the station as its permanent president, reports the Seattle Times. ...