Quick Takes

  • Techno watcher Dennis Haarsager, a PBS activist and Washington State University official, has launched a weblog with his annotated links to media ...
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    November 26, 2003

  • Media critic Michael Wolff says PBS’s NewsHour caved to outside pressure when it spiked his interview with correspondent Terence Smith, reports today’s New York ...
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    November 25, 2003

  • The White House has nominated Republican activist Gay Hart Gaines of Palm Beach, Fla., to join the CPB Board. Gaines was chairman ...
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    November 21, 2003

  • Kansas City Star critic Aaron Barnhart objects to Bill Moyers serving as both host and “axe-grinding opinionator” on his PBS show. Tonight’s episode becomes ...
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    November 21, 2003

  • WAMU ran a $2.3 million deficit in fiscal 2003, depleting all of its cash reserves and putting the station nearly $500,000 in ...
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    November 20, 2003

  • Eleven SUNY Plattsburgh students have agreed to participate in a public TV program about hazing and alcohol abuse — and help pay ...
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    November 19, 2003

  • A journalist new to radio, John Solomon of WNYC’s On the Media, exposes some of the artifice of radio postproduction, which makes pubradio people ...
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    November 19, 2003

  • Weak listener support at Pacifica’s WBAI-FM in New York and KPFK in Los Angeles is prompting the network to cut back at ...
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    November 18, 2003

  • Big interview with NPR’s Anne Garrels in The Morning News. We’ll add a pithy quote after we’ve had a chance to read it (now ...
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    November 18, 2003

  • The FCC fined Isothermal Community College, licensee of WNCW-FM in Spindale, N.C., $4,000 for improperly promoting an on-air raffle during a pledge ...
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    November 17, 2003

  • The FCC has delayed the DTV simulcasting requirements for New Mexico’s three PTV stations until May 2004. The stations are currently buying ...
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    November 17, 2003

  • Public radio managers in Iowa are disputing a Board of Regents suggestion that their stations be replaced with a statewide network, reports ...
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    November 14, 2003

  • What you don’t know about Nightly Business Report‘s Susie Gharib.
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    November 14, 2003

  • “Wandering and wandering, lost in the desert, alluding to Vietnam and cryptic codes as well as to the bones of Butch Cassidy, ...
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    November 14, 2003

  • “Public radio is riding high,” writes devoted fan William Powers in the National Journal. “These days, my most powerful media experiences, the stuff I ...
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    November 14, 2003