Quick Takes

  • The Fort Worth Star-Telegram reports on the Daystar Television Network, the Christian broadcasting service that is expanding its reach by acquiring licenses to ...
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    November 4, 2003

  • Benetton has hired Kurt Andersen, host of public radio’s Studio 360, as editorial director of Colors, its multi-culti magazine.
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    November 4, 2003

  • Officials at Miami’s WLRN-FM face charges of racism after axing two Caribbean-themed shows, reports The Miami Herald. WLRN’s station manager defends the move as ...
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    November 4, 2003

  • The FCC has eased DTV simulcasting requirements for three public TV stations: KEDT in Corpus Christi, Texas; KTWU in Topeka, Kan.; and ...
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    November 3, 2003

  • American University President Benjamin Ladner decided to remove WAMU Executive Director Susan Clampitt after several private conversations with station employees, the Washington Post reports. ...
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    October 31, 2003

  • WAMU Executive Director Susan Clampitt was forced out of her job today by American University President Benjamin Ladner. Clampitt had been heavily ...
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    October 30, 2003

  • The University of Connecticut’s winning women’s basketball team has renewed a contract for Connecticut PTV to handle local broadcats of its games ...
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    October 29, 2003

  • Monday, Nov. 3 is National Traffic Directors Day, organized (of course) by Traffic Directors Guild of America. The guild is suggesting that ...
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    October 29, 2003

  • USA Today profiles StoryCorps, the new oral history project from Sound Portraits Productions. “It’s history, bottom-up,” says Studs Terkel. [Current article.]
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    October 28, 2003

  • On the Media‘s Bob Garfield calls Terry Gross’s talk with Bill O’Reilly “an uncharacteristically ham-fisted hatchet job.” But he concedes, “[I]f I were face ...
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    October 28, 2003

  • A Washington Post reader decries WAMU’s decision to drop bluegrass, while another supports the changes General Manager Susan Clampitt has made.
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    October 27, 2003

  • Technology analysts predict that Tivo will soon be eclipsed by the DVR-ready set-top boxes offered by cable companies, reports the New York Times.
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    October 27, 2003

  • New Hampshire Public Radio and Iowa’s KUNI/KHKE have started a weblog devoted to 2004 election coverage.
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    October 23, 2003

  • “NPR ombudsman Jeffrey Dworkin [sic] definitely needs to look for a new line of work,” opines a Capital Times columnist, weighing in on, yes, ...
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    October 23, 2003

  • David Isay discussed StoryCorps, his new oral history project, on Morning Edition. Also, today’s Talk of the Nation takes up the future of public television.
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    October 23, 2003