During its first year on the air, Bonneville-owned Washington Post Radio failed to attract one percent of listeners in the metropolitan D.C. region, reports the Washington Post. Next month, the Post and Bonneville will end the 18-month partnership that put the newspaper’s reporters on the air.

Bill Moyers is again the topic of PBS ombudsman Michael Getler’s column. Getler addresses Moyers’ farewell to Karl Rove on Aug. 17 and says he’s less concerned with the “editorializing” than the reporting. The “reports” in Moyers’ following line lacked attribution, says Getler: “At [Rove’s] press conference this week he asked God to bless the president and the country, even as reports were circulating that he himself had confessed to friends his own agnosticism.”

The New York Times and the Wall Street Journal review The Anti-Americans (a love-hate relationship), a PBS documentary debuting tonight. The film is the latest installment of the CPB-backed America at a Crossroads initiative. Filmmakers Louis Alvarez, Andy Kolker and Peter Odabashian will be appearing today on WNYC’s Leonard Lopate Show and Tucker Carlson’s MSNBC series.

“Call it a guilt trip or a cultural awakening, but some Latino filmmakers feel that the controversy over Ken Burns’ upcoming World War II documentary has unexpectedly opened doors for their work at PBS,” reports the AP. Before The War‘s premiere on Sept. 23, PBS has scheduled to air five programs featuring Latinos. The program about marketing to (and representing) Latinos– Brown Is the New Green: George Lopez and the American Dream (Sept. 12)–lines up with PBS’s educational goals: “To a certain degree, Brown Is the New Green feels like a primer on Latino society for older white Americans — a big part of PBS’ audience.”

Program changes and compensation disputes at Seattle NPR news station KUOW prompted longtime host and engineer Ken Vincent to abruptly quit his job and go public with a litany of grievances over work conditions, as reported by The Stranger, a Seattle alt weekly, and the Seattle Times. Vincent and other employees object to the clipped on-air delivery style that Program Director Jeff Hansen has asked all on-air staff to adopt; Vincent describes the style change as “dumbing down the on-air sound.” Turmoil among the KUOW air staff began amid rumors of big bonuses for management and a projected $2.5 million end of year surplus, according to Blatherwatch, a Seattle radio blog that interviewed former KUOW morning host Deborah Brandt about why she resigned early this year.

Debut this fall [2007] Jim Knox’s Wild Zoofari Producing organizations: Jim Knox’s Wild Zoofari LLC. Producer: Rob Child. Creators: Rob Child, Jim Knox, Bruce Knox. Episodes: 14/30. Status: released on DVD 2006. Distributor: APT, from WSBE, Rhode Island. Age group: 6-11 years. Curricular focus: wildlife conservation. Longtime wildlife educator Jim Knox takes a group of kids on zoo and aquarium adventures to find a “mystery animal.” When they “discover” the animal, they learn about animal habitat, behavior and conservation. Knox also does solo shows on topics such as baby animals and great cats. The only TV series endorsed by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums.

Advocacy groups protesting Ken Burns’ upcoming World War II doc asked PBS and WETA in Washington, D.C., Aug. 20 [2007] for assurance that the producers would work harder to include Latinos in “current and future programming. The statement about Burns’ The War bore the signatures of 53 individuals, ten media, policy and educational organizations and Defend the Honor, the coalition that first challenged Burns. In a response, PBS said it “continues to build upon our track record of inclusion in programming, in front of and behind the camera.” WETA has issued no response. The full statements from Defend the Honor and PBS are below.

Some 70 authors have been chosen to participate in The Library of Congress’s 2007 National Book Festival on the National Mall, Sept. 29. Ken Burns and Geoffrey Ward (co-writer with Burns on several documentaries and the new book The War: An Intimate History, 1941-1945) will be part of the history and biography group.

Boston’s WGBH and AARP Publications will partner to produce TV shows designed for viewers 50 and older, reports Broadcasting & Cable. The multiyear partnership will begin with “Caring for Your Parents,” a special that will be offered to public TV stations next spring.

Maryland Public Television’s cable launch yesterday of V-me, the digital Spanish-language channel, didn’t include areas with the state’s largest Hispanic populations, reports the Washington Post. Apparently Comcast hasn’t yet committed to a start date for carriage in Montgomery and Prince George’s counties, and MPT officials say it could be as late as February 2009–the same time TV broadcasting goes all-digital. Maryland’s Lt. Gov. Anthony G. Brown (D) called on the public to pressure Comcast. The company says it has “no imminent plans” to carry V-me in the two counties.

The culprit that put Jefferson Public Radio off the air in Shasta County and much of Siskiyou County, Calif., was not a logging accident, as engineers suspected, but a bear that had broken the transmitter’s power line.

Two Chicagoans, Chuck Mertz and Anne Glickman, were eliminated from Public Radio Talent Quest, the online contest for future pubradio hosts. Still in the game: April Baer, Chris de Ville, Al Letson, Glynn Washington and People’s Choice favorite Rebecca Watson.

“I came up in a time when you couldn’t say ‘hell’ on the radio,” says retired Washington broadcaster Fred Fiske, recalling his mid-career decision to move from commercial to public radio. “I couldn’t bring myself to do the insults.” Fiske, who retired from American University’s NPR station WAMU 20 years ago but continues to deliver weekly commentaries for the station, recalls highlights of his 60-year broadcasting career in a Washington Post profile.

A union worthy of notice in the New York Times: NPR reporter Alex Cohen and former NPR webmaster Richard Dean were married this weekend.

National Indigenous Television, a new satellite TV channel for Austalia’s native peoples that launched in July, is seeking programming in many genres made “wholly or substantially” in Australia, with the priority on programs by aboriginal Austalians and Torres Strait Islanders. See its statement of purpose and commissioning guidelines. NITV has offices in Alice Springs and Sydney. Canada and New Zealand have similar channels.