The FCC has approved the front-running technology for digital radio, known as IBOC, but it dismissed or delayed action on several concerns raised by pubcasters.

Zwerdling hopes his bosses will reverse their decision to end his job — and so do dozens of colleagues.

On Weekend Edition Saturday, Scott Simon interviews Nic Harcourt, host of KCRW’s Morning Becomes Eclectic. Live performances from the show are compiled on a new album, Sounds Eclectic Too.

Columnist Michelle Malkin is unsympathetic to pubradio translators knocked off the air by expanding religiocasters. “It’s time for the secular hogs of the public airwaves to stop squealing,” she writes in the Philadelphia Daily News.

Electronic Media lists PBS President Pat Mitchell among the “most powerful women in television.” Among the 26 are Judith McHale, c.o.o. of Discovery Communications, numerous other chief execs, and Oprah Winfrey.

Aileen LeBlanc is leaving WYSO-FM in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where she has been news director since 1999. LeBlanc told the Dayton Daily News she’s leaving over “irreconcilable differences with WYSO management.”

The FCC’s Report and Order regarding digital radio is up on its website.

PBS lucks out with a major Jimmy Carter profile ready for broadcast on American Experience, Nov. 11-12, just a month after he won the Nobel Peace Prize. (Or was it planning!?)

Frontline producer Sherry Jones discussed last night’s “Missile Wars” program at washingtonpost.com.

Borders, a web-only series from P.O.V., features an interactive drama about three young adults from the U.S.-Mexican border.

Public Radio International named Senior Vice President Alisa Miller director of corporate strategy and management.

More on the FCC’s digital radio decision: NPR’s statement, coverage in Radio World and The New York Times, and the FCC’s release and statements are on its website.

NPR hired Michele Norris, a correspondent for ABC’s World News Tonight, as co-host of All Things Considered. And it also appointed its own Steve Inskeep to host ATC on weekends.

The Los Angeles Times reports on the KOCE-TV Foundation’s bid to buy the license of the Huntington Beach public TV station and fund its digital conversion.

This American Life contributor Sarah Vowell talks with the Philadelphia City Paper.