Quick Takes

  • Ira Glass talks TV and much more with The Onion: “With a lot of shows, whatever my girlfriend is watching, that becomes my taste. ...
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    November 12, 2003

  • Joan Kroc’s gift to NPR ought to inspire other donors to step up rather than shy away, editorializes the Indianapolis Star.
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    November 12, 2003

  • Conservative columnist Brent Bozell informs us that NPR didn’t really need the $200 million gift from Joan “Mommy Peacebucks” Kroc. The Media ...
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    November 11, 2003

  • Ken Stern, NPR’s executive v.p., tells the New York Daily News much of the income from Joan Kroc’s $200 million gift will fund programming. ...
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    November 11, 2003

  • Kentucky’s Georgetown College sold public station WRVG-FM, as Current reported, but got a permit last week to start a low-power FM station, reports ...
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    November 10, 2003

  • PBS will add a public affairs show featuring Tucker Carlson, conservative cohost of CNN’s Crossfire, to its line-up by next June, reports Television Week and ...
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    November 10, 2003

  • In an Akron Beacon Journal article, a public radio g.m. worries that Joan Kroc’s $200 million gift to NPR might discourage potential donors from ...
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    November 10, 2003

  • More coverage of Joan Kroc’s gift to NPR in the Boston Globe, Washington Post, New York Times and from NPR itself. (Some via Romenesko.) And John Gibson of ...
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    November 7, 2003

  • Miami Herald Publisher Albuerto Ibarguen is the new chairman of the PBS Board. He describes PBS’s challenges to differentiate and finance its services in ...
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    November 6, 2003

  • The late philanthropist Joan Kroc left NPR a gift of $200 million–about double the network’s annual operating budget, reports the Washington Post. She also ...
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    November 6, 2003

  • Tomorrow (Nov. 6) NPR will announce that it is receiving the largest monetary gift ever given to a U.S. cultural institution. No ...
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    November 6, 2003

  • Todd Mundt said he quit his NPR show because he was “burned out,” according to the Battle Creek Enquirer.
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    November 5, 2003

  • MPT re-tools the format for Wall Street Week with Fortune: “It’s not about a bunch of people on the set sitting around and picking ...
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    November 5, 2003

  • The New Yorker takes note of Brooklyn’s Pintchik Oracle, a feature on public radio’s The Next Big Thing.
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    November 5, 2003

  • The FCC approved technology, called the “broadcast flag,” to protect digital TV shows from being copied and distributed freely over the Internet. ...
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    November 5, 2003