Nice Above Fold - Page 989

  • WNYC-AM/FM in New York might be looking for a new home, reports the New York Daily News.
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    January 13, 2003

  • Fort Collins, Colo., will get a new community radio station this year, but KRFC is still looking for a studio and a leader, reports the Coloradoan.
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    January 13, 2003

  • The New York Times profiles comic Harry Shearer and his public radio program “Le Show,” produced at KCRW in Santa Monica. Says KCRW General Manager Ruth Seymour, “Harry is adventurous and daring, all of the things that have been in great danger on public radio since the emergence of radio consultants.”
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    January 13, 2003

  • The MacArthur Foundation gave NPR a $14 million grant, the largest in the network’s history.
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    January 13, 2003

  • The Virginia Public Broadcasting Board imposed 15 percent across-the-board funding cuts to the state’s public TV stations, according to the Richmond Times-Dispatch.
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    January 9, 2003

  • The New York Times starts a series of three reports today on the toll of unsafe working conditions at McWane Inc., a U.S. manufacturer of cast-iron pipes. The reporting stems from a collaboration with public TV’s Frontline, which airs a program on the subject tomorrow night.
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    January 8, 2003

  • WTTW drops its biweekly newspaper City Talk and cuts 23 jobs, reports the Chicago Tribune.
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    January 8, 2003

  • The latest Eastern Public Radio Newsletter is online.
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    January 8, 2003

  • The Association of Independents in Radio has started a series of live chats with producers and other folks in radio. The next one is Tues., Jan. 14 at 8 p.m. ET.
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    January 7, 2003

  • Media watchdog Norman Solomon gives NPR and Cokie Roberts “P.U.-litzer Prizes” for misreporting in 2002.
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    January 7, 2003

  • NPR Intern Tells All! Well, some. The Washington Monthly‘s Brian Montopoli scrutinizes the fustiness he hears in NPR’s “boomer-friendly” tone.
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    January 6, 2003

  • Knowing Poe, a new educational website produced by Maryland Public Television, features 10 interactive activities on the life and literature of Edgar Allan Poe. [Requires Flash]
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    January 6, 2003

  • George Will lists the reasons why “televising juries’ deliberations is a terrible idea” in his Jan. 5 column.
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    January 6, 2003

  • Frontier House was the best TV show of 2002, writes Aaron Barnhart, TV critic for the Kansas City Star and publisher of TVBarn.com. Frontline‘s “Requiem for Frank Lee Smith” and P.O.V.‘s “Mai’s America” were also on his top 10 list.
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    January 3, 2003

  • A producer for Maryland Public TV tests television’s “high threshold for shit” in local arts programming, reports the Baltimore City Paper.
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    January 3, 2003