David Barsamian and Pat Aufderheide appeared on Pacifica’s Democracy Now! Friday to discuss the state of public broadcasting.

Hit Entertainment, Barney’s new keeper, plans a $6 million promo campaign, 16 new toys and a 70-city stage tour to accompany 20 ...

The FCC dismissed some applications for noncommercial stations and translators Friday. The dismissed applicants failed to supply required updates to earlier applications, ...

Former Sesame Street actor and producer Matthew T. Robinson Jr. passed away Aug. 5.

Garry Trudeau ribs NPR in Saturday’s Doonesbury.

Garrison Keillor is setting up shop in an old St. Paul radio studio and has formed Grand Prairie LLP, an umbrella company ...

Nickelodeon purchased Sesame Workshop’s 50 percent stake in Noggin, the network aimed at “tweens,” Variety reports. Sesame will continue to produce programming for ...

Quil Lawrence of public radio’s The World discusses war reporting with the Boston Globe.

President Bush bypassed the Senate Aug. 6 and installed Cheryl Halpern to the CPB Board while she was still awaiting confirmation, reports ...

NPR commentator Cokie Roberts has been diagnosed with breast cancer and will undergo six months of chemotherapy, reports the Washington Post.

“It’s part of the theft of my property by a Yankee carpetbagging con artist,” says George E. Pickett V, who was defrauded ...

Public Radio Weekend is exploring ownership models and crafting pilot feeds, according to an interview with PRW mastermind Jim Russell. A preliminary ...

Audio diarist Laura Rothenberg describes life with cystic fibrosis in a piece produced by Joe Richman, this afternoon on All Things Considered.

Kenyel Dotts, charged with fraud and conspiracy for allegedly stealing donor information from New York’s WNYC-AM/FM, was arraigned today in Albany County ...

Vermont police arrested Bill Moyers last weekend (July 27) for driving with blood alcohol over the legal limit, the Bennington Banner reported. The PBS ...