Quick Takes

  • 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.
  • Radio drama isn’t dead, notes the New York Times, but it’s not exactly thriving either.
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • iBiquity Digital Corp. says it has resolved problems with audio encoding at low bit rates by using HDC, a newly developed codec. ...
  • Psychologist Shirley Glass (Ira Glass’s mom!) talks about marriage and infidelity in the Baltimore Sun.
  • Read the advance hype for Naked in Baghdad, in which NPR’s Anne Garrels details her experiences covering the war in Iraq.
  • Trustees at Isothermal Community College in Spindale, N.C., meet tonight to decide the future of WNCW-FM, which belongs to the school. A ...
  • Today’s Doonesbury digs on NPR.
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Two Stanford profs have started Philosophy Talk, a public radio show concerned more with timeless conundrums than with car repair.
  • Geov Parrish writes that MITRE’s recent report on low-power FM may mark a welcome swing toward localized broadcasting. “The damage that LPFM ...
  • “Their shows are making money, that’s why I air them over and over again,” says a Maryland Public TV pledge producer, referring ...
  • BE Radio gives an engineer’s view of NPR’s West Coast production facility.