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  • 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

  • “Finding the Future of Public Television” is the topic of a day-and-a-half workshop backed by CPB in Los Angeles on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 14-15. Speakers include CPB programmers Michael Pack and John Prizer, leftie performer Harry Shearer, conservative producer Lionel Chetwynd, former studio chief Frank Price and other producers and writers. They’ll debate whether PBS can “fully represent America’s diverse culture.” Organizer of the workshop, the conservative American Cinema Foundation, will hold it on AFI’s Western Avenue campus.
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    October 11, 2005

  • Radio World lists several noncommercial radio licensees, including WAMC-FM in Albany, N.Y., who received licenses after the FCC resolved conflicting applications.
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    October 7, 2005

  • Ron Della Chiesa will step down next month as the weekday morning classical music host on Boston’s WGBH-FM, reports the Boston Herald. He has hosted classical music on the station for 35 years. (He is not retiring, as this item formerly and erroneously stated.)
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    October 7, 2005

  • Longtime Prairie Home Companion sponsor Lands’ End has ended its underwriting deal with the show, reports the (Madison, Wis.) Capital Times.
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    October 7, 2005

  • Josh Kornbluth, host of a quirky new local series and weblog for KQED-TV, dreamed of being an NBA point guard, but he never imagined having his own TV show. “You look at someone who belongs on television . . . they’re solid, like they belong there…. An animated character can be like me, ” he tells the San Francisco Chronicle. “Look at Jim Lehrer, and look at his hair. There’s no way I can compete with that.”
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    October 7, 2005

  • CPB seeks a firm to help with developing public radio services for Latinos in Los Angeles.
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    October 6, 2005