Quick Takes

  • Business 2.0 profiles Chris Mandra, who has molded NPR’s online presence in his four years at the network.
  • Julia Child’s kitchen has been moved from Cambridge and reconstructed at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in D.C., the Washington Post reported. ...
  • “For the conflicted soap fan longing for a simulacrum of realism,” the British import “EastEnders is an addictive slice of heaven,” says John ...
  • Britain’s Prince Andrew has fallen for Cynthia Gouw, a reporter and producer for KQED’s Pacific Time, reports the San Francisco Examiner.
  • Whoops: Click and Clack have three million yogurt lids to unload.
  • Will Robedee, g.m. of Houston’s KTRU-FM, protests the new royalty rates for streaming music in Radio World.
  • The Boston Globe bids farewell to WGBH exec Peter McGhee, who resigns this month. The outgoing v.p. of national programming is leaving because he’s ...
  • Public radio’s Satellite Sisters has been pulled from orbit. You can read about it at their website.
  • Public radio’s This American Life and Warner Brothers have signed a first-look deal that gives the studio rights to many TAL episodes, reports the Los Angeles Times. ...
  • iBiquity Digital Corp. is now calling its IBOC (in-band, on-channel) technology HD Radio.
  • Burlington Free Press columnist Sam Hemingway writes: “Famous and not-so-famous people take note: If you’re looking for the right way to deal with a ...
  • Sirius Satellite Radio’s stock dropped yesterday after the company warned it might have to seek bankruptcy protection next year if it can’t ...
  • Bill Moyers pleaded guilty Monday to the reduced plea of negligent driving after a July 27 incident in Vermont. He’ll pay fines ...
  • Technicians at NPR ratified the latest union contract proposal today, 88 percent voting yes.
  • Minnesota Public Radio brings “adult beverages” to the table as part of a three-station collaboration on programming, reports the St. Paul Pioneer Press.