Quick Takes

  • Maryland’s Salisbury University will not sell WSCL-FM, but wants to strengthen the public radio station’s ties to campus, reports the Salisbury Daily Times. A ...
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    June 12, 2003

  • WYPR-FM in Baltimore has grown since buying its independence from Johns Hopkins University a year ago, but has it been at a ...
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    June 11, 2003

  • NPR is protesting the possible addition of a new strip club to its neighborhood, reports the Washington Business Journal. (Fourth item, registration required.)
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    June 10, 2003

  • Missed this one: Carl Kasell tied the knot May 24, reports The Washington Post, with many from his NPR family in tow. (Via DCRTV.)
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    June 9, 2003

  • Like most commercial news shows, PBS’s NewsHour relied heavily on officials and pro-war sources for coverage of the Iraq war and included few ...
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    June 9, 2003

  • The board of directors of WSCL-FM in Salisbury, Md., voted against selling the station to Baltimore’s WYPR, reports the Salisbury Daily Times. Officials with ...
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    June 9, 2003

  • Sunni Khalid settled a racial and religious discrimination lawsuit filed against NPR in 1997. (Fifth item.) [Earlier coverage in Current.]
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    June 9, 2003

  • Cincinnati’s Xavier University sold public station WVXG to HON Broadcasting Co. of Columbus, a commercial broadcaster, reports the Marion Star.
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    June 9, 2003

  • Fun Fact about Ira Glass No. 483: He is a vegetarian who sometimes gets “obsessed with meat,” reports The Oregonian.
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    June 9, 2003

  • WNED’s third annual Buffalo Niagara Guitar Festival opens June 15 with acts including the Yardbirds, Buddy Guy, Larry and Murali Coryell and ...
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    June 6, 2003

  • KERA in Dallas may run a city-owned classical station under a plan being considered by city government, reports the Star-Telegram. An Observer columnist (5/29 ...
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    June 6, 2003

  • Cartoonist Ted Rall has an idea for PBS’s next reality show.
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    June 4, 2003

  • NPR’s new deal with the online mag Slate to co-produce a daily newsmag uncomfortably smacks of commercialism, say Mark Glaser of the Online Journalism Review ...
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    June 4, 2003

  • The Weekly Standard takes aim at Bill Moyers for failing to acknowledge that many of his Now interview subjects have received money from the Schumann ...
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    June 3, 2003

  • Only NPR and PBS gave serious coverage to the FCC’s revision of media ownership rules in the weeks before the decision, ...
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    June 3, 2003