See also PDF of the complete report and Current coverage. Review of Alleged Actions Violating the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, as Amended The Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Office of Inspector General, has conducted a review of alleged violations of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967, as amended. We found evidence that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) former Chairman violated statutory provisions and the Director’s Code of Ethics by dealing directly with one of the creators of a new public affairs program during negotiations with the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) and the CPB over creating the show. Our review also found evidence that suggests “political tests” were a major criteria used by the former Chairman in recruiting a President/Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for CPB, which violated statutory prohibitions against such practices.

Below are the chair’s speech and several resolutions passed by the CPB Board Nov. 15, 2005, responding to the CPB inspector general’s report on the Tomlinson Affair. The board unanimously created a Corporate Governance and Executive Compensation committees, as recommended by the inspector general and a Special Committee “to enhance awareness and appreciation of public broadcasting’s achievements and potential for future service.” It also renewed and appointed members of its Finance and Audit Committee. Statement by Cheryl Halpern, CPB Board chair CPB Board of Directors meeting, Washington, D.C., Nov. 15, 2005 Thank you. These past few weeks have been especially challenging for everyone at this table.

NPR’s This I Believe essays “solicited from prominent names sometimes seem bland or banal,” writes the Washington Post‘s Marc Fisher. “But the best of the essays combine a poetic sensibility with the occasional pearl of wisdom,” he adds.

Managers of pubradio stations reacted with surprise to the news that Blair Feulner, g.m. of KCPW/KPCW-FM in Park City, Utah, makes $150,000 a year. “For me to ask for $100,000 at KUER would be inappropriate in the extreme — and my boss would make that clear,” said one g.m. in the Salt Lake Tribune.

Connecticut’s attorney general says he will sue the former president of a college radio station for misusing station funds, reports the (New London, Conn.) Day.

Jefferson Public Radio in Ashland, Ore., cancelled a local show after determining that the host had committed plagiarism, reports the Mail Tribune. The host of The Sustainable Kitchen denies any wrongdoing.

A recent survey found that public broadcasting’s news reporting is the most trusted in the media, reports Broadcasting & Cable. (See the survey results and related materials.)

NPR has launched 16 new podcasts, including several online-only features and a revival of “On Words with John Ciardi,” last heard on Morning Edition in the ’80s.

The University of the Pacific in Stockton, Calif., will seek a buyer for its noncommercial FM station, KUOP-FM. Capital Public Radio in Sacramento has been operating the station for five years under a management agreement.

A recent Station Resource Group analysis of CPB data (PDF) suggests that public radio stations need to get serious about becoming more efficient fundraisers, writes consultant John Sutton.

OSBE is an affinity group of statewide public broadcasting organizations, both state-operated and nonprofit. Included are some state agencies that assist but do not operate stations. The Organization of State Broadcasting Executives (OSBE) is an interstate collaborative composed of chief executive officers of state public broadcasting networks and directors of commissions and authorities with statewide public broadcasting responsibilities. OSBE is composed of representatives from 32 states that operate or represent two thirds of the public broadcasting stations in the United States. OSBE began meeting on a regular basis in 1981 and formally organized in 1986. OSBE serves its members on matters of concern to both individual and multiple states.

At TV Barn, Aaron Barnhart comments on the Tomlinson affair and the lackluster output of CPB’s ombudsmen.

Seattle’s KEXP-FM will stop broadcasting on a Tacoma signal it had been leasing from Public Radio Capital. The station is seeking to cut costs as a subsidy from Seattle’s Experience Music Project dries up. (More coverage in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.)

The FCC seeks comments on a proposal to create a low-power AM service.

WUNC-FM in Chapel Hill, N.C., is moving ahead with plans to produce a national talk show with Dick Gordon as host. Gordon hosted public radio’s The Connection until earlier this year, when it was cancelled by producing station WBUR-FM in Boston.