Quick Takes

  • Radio reading services worry that digital radio could interfere with their signals, reports Radio World. And in an RW editorial, an advocate ...
  • The FCC has struck a confusing section from a December 2001 decision that admonished WNCW in Spindale, N.C., for breaking underwriting rules. ...
  • Congress and the recording industry must find a way to let college radio flourish, writes Michael Papish in The Washington Post.
  • The New York Times tells the story behind “The Vietnam Tapes of Lance Cpl. Michael A. Baronowski,” an NPR documentary that some ...
  • The New York Times reviews an American Experience bio of former President Jimmy Carter, winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize: “This program is a vivid ...
  • Sound Portraits Productions, led by independent radio producer David Isay, has just posted a study guide to be used in classrooms, along ...
  • Dottie Talmage, who managed KVNF-FM in Paonia, Colo., for seven years, died Oct. 28 at the age of 51.
  • Columnist Mona Charen accuses NPR of being liberal and anti-Israel.
  • Christopher O’Riley, host of public radio’s From the Top, confesses his admiration of Howard Stern in a Minneapolis Star-Tribune profile.
  • Independent radio producer Robin White has a website for his documentary Giving Back the Owens.
  • WAMU-FM in Washington, D.C., upset listeners yesterday when it accidentally rebroadcast a taped show that included “breaking news” about the start of ...
  • Public radio programmers say a new classical music study will help them improve their service to listeners, according to the latest Eastern ...
  • The Los Angeles Times reports on the opening of NPR’s West Coast production studios. Hosts Neal Conan and Scott Simon will contribute to NPR’s ...
  • Gwen Shaffer, a former reporter for WHYY, writes in the Columbia Journalism Review about a “partnership” that compromised environmental reporting at the ...
  • Public radio journalist Jeremy Scahill is now in Baghdad producing IraqJournal.org. Some of his pieces are also airing on Democracy Now!.