“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.

CPB gave more than $2.3 million in grants to 29 public radio stations to help them convert to digital broadcasting.

NPR’s Anne Garrels received CPB’s 2004 Edward R. Murrow Award this week, the most prestigious honor in public radio.

Bill O’Reilly reportedly is barring Fresh Air from relicensing segments of his much-discussed appearance on the show.

A McSweeney’s writer recasts Bob Edwards’ book tour as a Grateful Dead experience: “With the NPR tours, it’s like, I can’t even express it, it’s just too big, spiritually, and nobody else understands. Unless you’re on tour you can’t understand.”