Quick Takes

  • Ellen Kushner, host of public radio’s Sound and Spirit, has helped launch the Interstitial Arts movement.
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    February 14, 2003

  • Maigstrates in Kentucky have refused to endorse a grant application from Whitesburg’s Appalshop because of an alleged unpatriotic remark by a DJ ...
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    February 14, 2003

  • The Daily Northwestern goes behind the scenes at NPR’s Wait, Wait … Don’t Tell Me! Host Peter Sagal acknowledges he’s achieve a modicum of fame but ...
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    February 14, 2003

  • After fielding more advocates on the Hill than ever before, APTS reported that Congress had reduced the amount it will rescind from ...
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    February 14, 2003

  • Some Pacificans are urging the network’s board to guarantee seats for women and people of color.
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    February 14, 2003

  • The theme of this year’s Public Radio Collaboration (Nov. 1-9) is democracy in America.
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    February 13, 2003

  • WRYR in Churchton, Md., one of the first low-power FM stations to go on the air, is “definitely starting to catch on,” ...
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    February 13, 2003

  • Frontline‘s cameras will not record jury deliberations in the capital murder trial of 17-year-old Cedric Harrison. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals yesterday ...
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    February 13, 2003

  • Public radio stations will have their first chance in five years to file for translators on non-reserved FM frequencies. The FCC window ...
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    February 13, 2003

  • There’s no escape from rant media: a Washington Post feature on “nasty name calling, vindictive invective and unrelenting venting” doesn’t mention cross-channel exchanges between ...
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    February 13, 2003

  • Willing to give up your modern, interconnected lifestyle and experience life as it was in the American colonies? Producers of Colonial House, ...
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    February 12, 2003

  • The reds of Nazi banners and congealed blood, “oranges of flame-throwers and of the explosions caused by kamikaze pilots” bring emotional immediacy ...
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    February 12, 2003

  • Forum, a talk show on San Francisco’s KQED-FM, celebrates its tenth anniversary this week. Host Michael Krasny, who also teaches English lit, says ...
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    February 11, 2003

  • Jonathan Mitchell, producer of public radio’s Shades of Gray, chats tonight (Tues., Feb. 11) on the website of the Association of Independents in Radio. ...
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    February 11, 2003

  • Pacifica’s revenues are rising, but it will have to cut wages and may be in debt for another two years, reports Executive ...
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    February 11, 2003