The University of Massachusetts-Lowell will end support for public radio’s Open Source as of December, reports the Lowell Sun. “It’s basically an expensive program that, given our financial situation, doesn’t make sense for the university,” said David MacKenzie, the university’s interim chancellor. “I just felt we had other things that were higher on the priority list.” The show’s producers “haven’t the least hesitation” in promising to keep it going, writes host and co-creator Christopher Lydon on Open Source‘s blog. “We need your help and encouragement as we have from the start, or maybe just a little more so,” he tells listeners.

In the kid’s media biz, “the buzz today is around Disney,” according to the New York Times.

PBS TeacherSource blogger Andy Carvin is underwhelmed by Google for Educators, a new website for K-12 teachers.

CPB hired ad and PR veteran Del Galloway to lead its Public Awareness initiative.

Bill Moyers on PBS, from a Boston Globe Q-and-A: “It’s a place where if you fight you can survive, but it’s not easy. The fact of the matter is that Kenneth Tomlinson had a chilling effect down the line.”

Ebon Dooley, co-founder and broadcast director of WRFG-FM in Atlanta, died Oct. 12, according to the station. Dooley also represented affiliate stations on the Board of Directors of the Pacifica Foundation. Greg Guma, Pacifica’s executive director, called Dooley “a warm and courageous man.” “He was truly committed to the idea that radio could bring about social change, that the things we do make an actual difference,” said a WRFG host in the Atlanta Progressive News.

More on the resignation of NPR’s Bill Marimow in the Baltimore Sun. “He was committed to excellent journalism, but the job also requires attention to other things, to radio programming and the connection of that programming to member stations,” Jay Kernis, NPR’s v.p. of programming, tells the paper. “His attention was focused on part of the picture, and we needed focus on a bigger picture.” Also, the latest version of the New York Times‘ article.

Bill Marimow resigned last night as NPR’s v.p. of news and will become its ombudsman, reports the Washington Post. NPR staffers told the Post that Marimow and Jay Kernis, v.p. of programming and his immediate boss, had clashed about “the scope and nature of his responsibilities.” UPDATE: The New York Times has posted an expanded version of its original article. “Colleagues said that Mr. Marimow, a long-time print journalist and investigative reporter, was perceived as having failed to adapt quickly enough to radio, particularly as radio converges with the Internet,” the Times reports. “They also said that he was on the wrong side of an internal power struggle.”

This American Life will offer its show in podcast form for the first time starting this weekend. Each episode will be available free for a week, and subscribers to the show’s podcast through Audible.com will get a refund. TAL‘s listeners have been critical of the show’s approach to digital delivery.

The FCC will not accept minor change applications during the application window for an upcoming auction, according to Radio World.

Your next cheeses from Wisconsin might come from goats named after Cokie Roberts and Nina Totenberg, notes the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Fantome Farm in Ridgeway, Wis., is home to a herd of goats named after “inspiring women,” including the NPR analyst and reporter. (Via NPR’s Mixed Signals.)

Former U.S. Sen. David Pryor, named last month to the CPB Board, is expected to make a full recovery after undergoing quadruple bypass surgery Wednesday in Little Rock, Ark., reports the Arkansas News Bureau. Pryor was admitted to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences Monday night after complaining of chest tightness and pressure, the paper reports. The 72-year-old Pryor previously underwent bypass surgery following a heart attack in 1991.

WNED in Buffalo, N.Y., and the University of Buffalo are preparing to launch a public radio series based on oral histories of African-American women, reports Buffalo Business First. The producers received $280,000 for the project last year from CPB.

Austin City Limits will move out of its studio on the University of Texas campus, its home for the past 32 years, and into a new downtown Austin facility in 2009, reports the Austin American-Statesman. Bill Stotesberry, KRLU g.m., says the new theater will be roughly the same size as the current studio but will accomodate three times as many seats.

The Public Radio Program Directors Association has posted audio files of general sessions from this year’s PRPD conference at its website.