Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bob Graham showed up on a recent (off-the-air) performance of Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, reports the Concord Monitor.
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August 18, 2003
Radio drama isn’t dead, notes the New York Times, but it’s not exactly thriving either.
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August 18, 2003
Bob Edwards tells The Tennessean that union-management relations at NPR have been “a little testy” lately: “A nonprofit thinks it’s doing God’s work, whether ...
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August 14, 2003
A decision on the fate of WNCW-FM in Spindale, N.C., has been postponed for two weeks, reports the Asheville Citizen-Times. [More coverage in the ...
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August 14, 2003
iBiquity Digital Corp. says it has resolved problems with audio encoding at low bit rates by using HDC, a newly developed codec. ...
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August 13, 2003
Psychologist Shirley Glass (Ira Glass’s mom!) talks about marriage and infidelity in the Baltimore Sun.
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August 12, 2003
Read the advance hype for Naked in Baghdad, in which NPR’s Anne Garrels details her experiences covering the war in Iraq.
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August 12, 2003
Trustees at Isothermal Community College in Spindale, N.C., meet tonight to decide the future of WNCW-FM, which belongs to the school. A ...
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August 12, 2003
Today’s Doonesbury digs on NPR.
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August 12, 2003
Officials at WETA in Washington, D.C., have resigned themselves to the prospect of day laborers–mostly Latino men–gathering at a new pavilion near ...
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August 12, 2003
A Dayton Daily News report revisits a year-long dispute between WYSO-FM in Yellow Springs, Ohio, and disgruntled listeners who protest the station’s decision to ...
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August 11, 2003
Two Stanford profs have started Philosophy Talk, a public radio show concerned more with timeless conundrums than with car repair.
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August 11, 2003
Geov Parrish writes that MITRE’s recent report on low-power FM may mark a welcome swing toward localized broadcasting. “The damage that LPFM ...
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August 11, 2003
“Their shows are making money, that’s why I air them over and over again,” says a Maryland Public TV pledge producer, referring ...
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August 11, 2003
BE Radio gives an engineer’s view of NPR’s West Coast production facility.