Quick Takes

  • San Francisco Chronicle TV critic Tim Goodman takes PBS to task for premiering its best shows in the fall when network competition is heaviest. ...
  • Mixed Bag Classic, a triple-A format radio show hosted by freeform radio veteran Pete Fornatale, is entering national distribution.
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Hostile TV critics grilled PBS on its treatment of Louis Rukeyser, its handling of the HIV-positive Muppet flap, and antiquated scheduling strategies ...
  • 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 ...
  • 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.
  • Minority Media and Telecommunications Council, a D.C.-based advocate for minority ownership and employment in media, announced that it has launched a website, ...
  • NABET-CWA has posted a fact sheet about its new contract with NPR. (See July 23 entry, below.)
  • Though nominally about religious broadcasting, the Christian Community Broadcasters‘ website features regular updates about the FCC’s dispensation of low-power FM licenses.
  • British broadcasters are pushing digital radio enthusiastically, though there are few affordable sets in the stores, WNYC’s On the Media reported.
  • Rounded corners and a new font define the slightly updated look at NPR.org.
  • Leo McKern, whose Rumpole of the Bailey performances were produced in Britain between 1975 and 1992 and aired successfully on PBS, died at the ...
  • More from Louis Rukeyser: I lost interest in Maryland Public TV when they ambushed me, he tells the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.