“Real diversity. Real public television” is the slogan for Philadelphia’s maverick public TV station WYBE, and the phrase could be a précis of General Manager Sherri Hope Culver’s article in Television Quarterly, posted on the station’s site. (Beware — it’s a long PDF download.) Not a member of PBS, the station specializes in underserved minorities and is guided in part by 12 ethnic councils.

The New York Times reports on newlyweds who met through a fund drive on WAMC-FM in Albany.

Minnesota Public Radio violated its conflict-of-interest policy when it bought a mansion to resell earlier this year, reports the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal.

Democracy Now! host and touring author Amy Goodwin criticizes mainstream media’s “access of evil” in this Newsweek Q-and-A. (via msnbc.com)

“Does anyone in public TV realize that people have lives?” Kansas City Star critic Aaron Barnhart faults PBS’s scheduling of Colonial House as a marathon viewing experience.

The New York Times reports on WFUV’s plans for a new radio tower.

A Boston Globe article places Ira Glass among a throng of semiotics grads from Brown University that, “if they don’t exactly dominate the cultural mainstream, certainly have grown famous sparring with it.” Via randomWalks.

NPR’s Tavis Smiley appears tonight as a “Power Player” on Jeopardy.

Morning Edition without Bob Edwards will succeed by featuring energetic hosts and “fewer interviews with novelists,” among other changes, predicts commercial broadcaster Randall Bloomquist in the Wall Street Journal.

WFUV-FM in New York has at long last found a site for its broadcast tower, ending a decade-long struggle with the New York Botanical Garden.

Early commenters to the FCC raise concerns about supplemental audio channels and other issues, reports Radio Magazine.

Gerald Slavet, creator of PRI’s From the Top, won the company’s 2004 Award for Innovation and Entrepreneurship. And NPR gave its first-ever Public Radio Leadership Award to Sen. Ted Stevens (R-Alaska).

Bob Edwards tells the Seattle Post-Intelligencer his next book might be an autobiography. “The audience is writing it for me,” he says. “You should see the e-mails.”

Native producer Peggy Berryhill discussed new media’s effect on Native stations and many other topics in a recent chat on AIR’s website.

In a May 11 ruling, the D.C. Circuit Court upheld the FCC’s point system for resolving mutually exclusive noncommercial applications, rebuffing challenges from the American Family Association and Jefferson Public Radio. (PDF.) The decision removes a major obstacle to the FCC’s acceptance of new applications for reserved spectrum.