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  • NPR Ombudsman Jeffrey Dvorkin revisits Sandra Tsing Loh’s cancellation, urging his network to cover the story: “Public radio in general — and NPR in particular — has seemed less than eager to report on itself whenever we become the legitimate subject of news reports in other places. … Get over it, NPR.” (Via Romenesko.)
  • Dan Reed, p.d. at WFPK-FM in Louisville, Ky., will move to the same job at WTMD-FM in Towson, Md., reports the Louisville Eccentric Observer.
  • More coverage of the Loh flap from the Los Angeles Times (reg. req.), Time (in a column by Loh herself) and Google News.
  • Chuck Niles, a renowned Los Angeles jazz deejay who called KKJZ-FM home since 1990, died yesterday at the age of 76, reports the Long Beach Press Telegram.
  • Ruth Seymour, KCRW g.m., admitted fault today and invited Sandra Tsing Loh to return to the air, but Loh declined.
  • New laws raising indecency fines are worrying some smaller broadcasters, including noncoms, reports The Oregonian.
  • The Washington Post profiles Joan Kroc, the unorthodox philanthropist who left NPR $200 million in her estate last year.
  • A Reuters article on Internet radio mentions KEXP and WAMU’s BluegrassCountry.org.
  • Also coinciding with the recent ruckus over broadcast indecency, KPCC-FM in Los Angeles cancelled The Play’s the Thing, a radio theater series, last month after naughty words were said on the show, reports the LA Weekly.
  • The Los Angeles Times reports that religious broadcaster Daystar submitted a new bid to purchase Orange County public TV station KOCE. Meanwhile, a pending deal to sell the station to the KOCE Foundation may be unravelling.
  • Don Lockett, formerly NPR’s chief technology officer, has written The Road to Digital Radio, a “management level overview” of the technology.
  • Public Radio Program Directors rescheduled its conference this fall to avoid a conflict between its old dates and the observance of Yom Kippur. PRPD is now set for Sept. 29 through Oct. 2 in San Antonio. See Current‘s Calendar for more events.
  • Sandra Tsing Loh briefly discussed her recent firing from KCRW on last night’s On Point, a show produced at Boston’s WBUR-FM. (RealAudio; Loh starts at 35:13.)
  • Anxieties over anti-breast fever in Washington prompted American Experience to re-edit a love scene in its upcoming documentary about Emma Goldman, according to the Washington Post.
  • The American Prospect previews the forthcoming Air America Radio, the talk radio network aimed at liberals that has so far hired away four denizens of public radio, including Katherine Lanpher.