In a financial report (PDF), the c.f.o. of Pacifica warns that the network “cannot survive” its current level of spending on governance, which includes the cost of its elaborate board elections.

You won’t see Bob Edwards on TV anytime soon. “It’s so bogus,” he tells the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. “They put makeup on you. There are cardboard bookcases behind you. I can’t feel normal.”

“If you can make it through this show without crying, consider yourself a stoic.” The Boston Globe reviews Hank Williams: Honky Tonk Blues, an American Masters documentary debuting tonight on PBS.

Around Town, WETA-TV’s last regularly scheduled local series, is being reformatted into interstitial spots, reports the Washington Post. Television V.P. Kevin Harris, who decided to end the show’s 18-year run as a weekly, aims to reach more viewers by sprinkling segments on local arts and culture into primetime program breaks. “We think it’s changing into a really dynamic format,” Harris told the Post.

The St. Paul Pioneer Press covers Minnesota Public Radio’s groundbreaking on its big new headquarters in downtown St. Paul. (Reg. req.)

In a June 16 New York Times op-ed, NPR’s Juan Williams praised George W. Bush and advised him on how to attract more black votes. On Morning Edition, Williams regularly interviews members of Bush’s administration.

Nap Turner, a fixture on the Washington, D.C., jazz and blues scene and a deejay on Pacifica’s WPFW-FM, died yesterday. The Washington Post‘s Marc Fisher remembers him.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch media writer Eric Mink lauds Frontline’s Ofra Bikel in this column. (via mediabistro.com)

The Chicago Tribune profiles Chicago Public Radio host Gretchen Helfrich and her nationally distributed talk show, Odyssey.

NPR will invest $15 million over the next three years in news programming, the network announced today. The money comes from the payout of the invested Joan Kroc gift.

KVCR-FM in San Bernardino, Calif., may drop A Prairie Home Companion, reports the San Bernardino County Sun. Larry Ciecalone, g.m. of KVCR, tells Current that a new affiliation fee from Minnesota Public Radio has prompted the decision. The crunch also led to program cuts at WRVO-FM in Oswego, N.Y.

The Christian Science Monitor writes up low-power FM and, in an editorial, backs the Senate bill that would expand LPFM.

Appearing on On the Media, New Yorker writer Ken Auletta says CPB’s decision to back new shows with conservative hosts, but not Bill Moyers’ Now, exposes an agenda at work.

The big religious broadcaster Daystar Television has bought its second public TV station in recent months — WTBU in Indianapolis, sold by Butler University for $4 million, local TV station WRTV reported June 9. The university explained earlier why it was cashing in. Last summer, KERA in Dallas sold one of its two channels to Daystar for $20 million. Daystar is also suing an Orange County college to buy public TV station KOCE. The network says it owns and operates more than 30 stations.

Comcast is in advanced negotiations to create a 24-hour preschool channel with PBS and producers of Barney and Sesame Street, according to a Wall Street Journal report summarized by Reuters. (Earlier coverage in Current.)