Quick Takes

  • Boston’s WBUR-FM dropped Fresh Air and has no definite plans for its reinstatement, angering some fans, according to the Boston Herald.
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    June 2, 2003

  • Children’s TV producers for WGBH and Reading Rainbow have taken unusual steps to keep their programs on the air. For the first time ever, ...
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    May 28, 2003

  • Uncooperative Iraqi prisoners of war are being forced to listen to Barney’s “I Love You” song, the Sesame Street theme and heavy metal music, ...
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    May 22, 2003

  • Chevron Texaco said May 20 that it will end its longterm sponsorship of Metropolitan Opera broadcasts next April, the San Francisco Examiner reported. The ...
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    May 21, 2003

  • Maryland’s Salisbury University is considering selling radio station WSCL, reports The Salisbury Daily Times.
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    May 20, 2003

  • “Public broadcasting’s super salesman” David Ives, who led WGBH as it became a national production powerhouse, died on May 16. “As the ...
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    May 20, 2003

  • Race: The Power of an Illusion, a three-part public TV series, “could more aptly be titled ‘PBS: The Power of Self-Delusion,’ a study of ...
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    May 19, 2003

  • The FCC has fined WCVE in Richmond, Va., $10,000 for illegally constructing and operating a new antenna site. The station started broadcasting ...
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    May 15, 2003

  • Fortune magazine profiles Christina Cooks, the public TV show from Christina Pirello and her husband/partner Robert. Her combination of macrobiotic cooking and flavor makes a ...
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    May 15, 2003

  • White Teeth, a television adaptation of the best-selling book, “captures a more complicated and satisfying aspect of the novel: the poignancy and redemptive sweetness ...
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    May 9, 2003

  • David Isay will unveil StoryCorps, a national oral history project, later this year. As he tells the New York Times, “This is our beachhead ...
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    May 9, 2003

  • Walter Cronkite and CNN anchor Aaron Brown are the latest TV journalists to agree to appear on public TV stations in infomercials ...
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    May 7, 2003

  • A Star Tribune review of Studio 360 calls PRI “public radio’s equivalent of HBO in terms of turning out cutting-edge programming.”
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    May 5, 2003

  • Astronomers have named asteroid #26858 “Misterrogers” in honor of the late children’s TV host, reports NEPA News. (Via randomWalks.) PBS will distribute a live ...
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    May 1, 2003

  • The Jewish Action Taskforce has rescheduled protests against NPR’s coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. They will take place at NPR’s D.C. headquarters ...
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    April 29, 2003