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  • Romenesko asks: “Has NPR’s Libby Lewis done any reports yet on Lewis Libby?”
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    October 28, 2005

  • Steve Fentriss, a 19-year-old drummer and composer from Ann Arbor, Mich., has recorded a little ditty called “I Love Public Radio.” You can download it from his website (MP3). (Related article in the Ann Arbor News.)
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    October 24, 2005

  • Ray Suarez will host public radio’s America Abroad and continue as a correspondent for public TV’s NewsHour. Public Radio International distributes America Abroad to more than 100 stations.
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    October 24, 2005

  • See pictures from the Third Coast International Audio Festival on the Public Radio Exchange’s Flickr page.
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    October 24, 2005

  • “Public radio forces too much money out of its on-air fund drives,” writes consultant John Sutton on his blog. “And the problem is likely to get worse.”
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    October 24, 2005

  • The Seattle Post-Intelligencer profiles Seattle’s KEXP-FM. “They’re keeping this hopeful notion of what music is supposed to be about alive,” says a record label president.
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    October 24, 2005

  • WTTW plans to make big changes to its signature news magazine in January when former news anchor and CBS News correspondent Carol Marin signs on at Chicago Tonight. Marin’s hiring, announced Oct. 20, foreshadows the exit of current anchor Bob Sirott, reports the Chicago Sun-Times. “The whole show will be changing,” a WTTW spokeswoman tells Crain’s Chicago Business.
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    October 21, 2005

  • Transom has a team of four blogging this year’s Third Coast International Audio Festival.
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    October 20, 2005

  • Mark Handley, the retiring g.m. of New Hampshire Public Radio, reminisces in the New Hampshire Union Leader about his time at the network. Handley and his wife began a sailboat trip around the world yesterday; they’re tracking their travels online.
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    October 18, 2005

  • In a world of new media options for kids and their parents, PBS’s preeminence as the service with high-quality educational preschool fare is no longer assured, reports the Boston Globe. The landscape for kids TV has changed so much that even PBS looks to earn new revenues from commercials.
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    October 17, 2005

  • Cuts to CPB funding proposed by House Republicans would force tough decisions at Nebraska ETV. “We would probably have to eliminate our local programming if we wanted PBS programming,” General Manager Rod Bates tells the Lincoln Journal-Star. “That’s the kind of choice we would have to make.” In June, all three of Nebraska’s Republican representatives voted against a House measure restoring $100 million in CPB funds.
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    October 17, 2005
  • Programs/Content
    Ed Asney in staging of Monkey Trial transcript

    Monkey trial still timely for tour of radio docudrama

    Ed Asner takes the role of Bryan, not Darrow, in LATW’s drama based on the Scopes transcript. John de Lancie, at right, plays Darrow. Susan Loewenberg chose a radio play about the Scopes trial for L.A. Theatre Works’ 2005 national tour because it’s the one that teachers request most from the company’s catalog of more than 200 recorded plays. The teachers seemed to be saying the evolution/creation fight is an enduring topic in our national life and not just a quirky little philosophical eruption that excuses a quick revival of The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial. Indeed, as Ed Asner started off the tour last week as William Jennings Bryan, defender of creation, in Arcata, Calif.,
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    October 17, 2005

  • If you’re wondering what industry could become NPR’s big competitor in serious news coverage, the New York Times had a hint on Monday. In an article fretting about newspapers’ future, Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. is quoted: “We will follow our readers where they take us. … If they want us on cellphones or downloaded so they can hear us in audio, we must be there.”
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    October 12, 2005

  • “For the first time ever, hit prime time shows can be purchased online the day after they air on TV,” Disney’s new c.e.o. said today as Apple announced a $299 Video iPod that can hold 150 hours of TV, according to the Los Angeles Times.
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    October 12, 2005

  • “I’m with people who love radio,” says Bob Edwards of his XM Satellite Radio gig. “NPR is run by newspaper people. Sometimes I think they don’t even like radio.”
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    October 12, 2005