Quick Takes

  • KUOW-FM in Seattle is paying tribute to Cynthia Doyon, a swing jazz host for the station who committed suicide earlier this week. ...
  • “Because public radio is a resource for us as citizens, it makes sense to have our participation,” says Jay Allison of Transom, ...
  • The University of Massachusetts in Lowell has upset students and community activists by giving 25 hours a week of its FM station’s ...
  • Newsweek previews David Isay’s latest project, StoryCorps.
  • KCTS cut 30 jobs in layoffs that targeted production staff, report the Seattle Weekly and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
  • The Las Vegas Mercury previews changes at the city’s KNPR, which begins operating a second FM signal this fall.
  • Tyne Daly and Ruby Dee star in a staged reading of John Hersey’s Hiroshima, airing today on Pacifica stations. [More coverage in the New ...
  • Chicago’s WBEZ-FM is studying ways to acquire a second frequency in the city, reports the Sun-Times.
  • Public radio engineers say that iBiquity Digital Corp. has improved its digital audio codec, reports BE Radio. Meanwhile, WGUC-FM in Cincinnati has gone digital.
  • KPCC-FM in Los Angeles and K-Mozart, a local commercial classical station, will promote each other on their airwaves, reports the Los Angeles Times.
  • The New York Times reports on choices in cable and satellite TV for video-on-demand and high-def programming, and how these services may change in ...
  • Alex Chadwick is keeping an online diary for Slate about the launch of Day to Day, the new NPR newsmag that is being produced in ...
  • A Yankee remake of the BBC’s Coupling, coming to NBC this fall, will feature rewrites of the British scripts, the New York Daily News reported. ...
  • Undercut fiscally by underwriting declines, San Francisco’s KQED trimmed its work week and salaries 10 percent and reduced its staff 11 percent ...
  • In a New York Times op-ed, Yale political scientist David Greenberg weighs the meaning of a revelation in the new PBS Watergate documentary — ...