San Francisco Chronicle TV critic Tim Goodman takes PBS to task for premiering its best shows in the fall when network competition is heaviest. ...
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August 1, 2002
Mixed Bag Classic, a triple-A format radio show hosted by freeform radio veteran Pete Fornatale, is entering national distribution.
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July 31, 2002
LA Magazine profiles NPR host Tavis Smiley and writes up the network’s West Coast expansion: “The network has looked at Los Angeles the way ...
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July 30, 2002
Longtime critic of liberal bias at PBS, David Horowitz, has sued conservative producer Lionel Chetwynd (National Desk and the recent Darkness at High Noon) for kicking ...
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July 30, 2002
A sober Muppet story: The New York Times reports that the Palestinian-Israeli-Jordanian version of Sesame Street has had to give up the idea that Muppets of ...
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July 30, 2002
Hostile TV critics grilled PBS on its treatment of Louis Rukeyser, its handling of the HIV-positive Muppet flap, and antiquated scheduling strategies ...
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July 29, 2002
WFDD-FM in Winston-Salem, N.C., has dropped its broadcast of Sunday sermons and Baptist church services, according to the Winston-Salem Journal. “The loss is a ...
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July 29, 2002
A janitor at New York’s WNYC-FM/AM stole a list of donors and sold it to an identity-theft ring, according to The New York Times.
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July 29, 2002
Minority Media and Telecommunications Council, a D.C.-based advocate for minority ownership and employment in media, announced that it has launched a website, ...
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July 28, 2002
NABET-CWA has posted a fact sheet about its new contract with NPR. (See July 23 entry, below.)
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July 26, 2002
Though nominally about religious broadcasting, the Christian Community Broadcasters‘ website features regular updates about the FCC’s dispensation of low-power FM licenses.
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July 26, 2002
British broadcasters are pushing digital radio enthusiastically, though there are few affordable sets in the stores, WNYC’s On the Media reported.
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July 26, 2002
Rounded corners and a new font define the slightly updated look at NPR.org.
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July 25, 2002
Leo McKern, whose Rumpole of the Bailey performances were produced in Britain between 1975 and 1992 and aired successfully on PBS, died at the ...
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July 25, 2002
More from Louis Rukeyser: I lost interest in Maryland Public TV when they ambushed me, he tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.