Quick Takes

  • “The old-fashioned idea of the airwaves as public property still excites both ends of the political spectrum . . .,” reports The Washington Post‘s ...
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    February 28, 2003

  • NPR’s Bob Edwards interviewed Pacifica’s Brian DeShazor about the radio network’s efforts to preserve its valuable archive of historic audio tapes. NPR’s ...
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    February 28, 2003

  • The Onion needles NPR’s Corey Flintoff this week–see fifth item, “News in Brief.” (Warning: gratuitous explicit language.)
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    February 28, 2003

  • Pubcasters are again calling on FCC Chairman Michael Powell to require cable to carry both public TV’s analog and digital signals during ...
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    February 27, 2003

  • CPB honored Ted Stevens, Alaska’s senior senator, with its Ralph Lowell Award, public TV’s highest honor. As chair of the Senate Appropriations ...
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    February 27, 2003

  • New York’s WAMC will buy an AM station to complement its stronger FM signal in Albany.
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    February 27, 2003

  • College radio stations are fuming that College Music Journal, their sole tie to the record industry, seems to be fiddling with their playlist data ...
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    February 27, 2003

  • Studio 360 host Kurt Andersen tells Adweek he’s working on a second novel (set in the 19th century) and hates Craig Kilborn.
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    February 27, 2003

  • Fred Rogers died of cancer early today at the age of 74. There’s additional information at the Family Communications website. Current covered his ...
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    February 27, 2003

  • New research from the Sesame Workshop reveals children worry more about the bully next door than Osama bin Laden, reports the Washington Post.
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    February 26, 2003

  • NPR has hired GetActive Software to provide member stations with fundraising software and e-marketing tools. PBS hired the company for the same ...
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    February 26, 2003

  • NPR President Kevin Klose visited Baltimore to face critics of his network’s Middle East coverage, reports the Sun. “There are people on all ...
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    February 26, 2003

  • “We’re always up front with the fact that this is advocacy journalism,” says a producer at WPKN in Bridgeport, Conn., a community ...
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    February 26, 2003

  • NPR named Walt Swanston director of diversity management and Michael Riksen v.p. of national affairs.
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    February 26, 2003

  • Nielsen Media Research announced plans to expand its use of people meters, a change likely to boost cable ratings, according to the Los ...
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    February 25, 2003