Geov Parrish writes that MITRE’s recent report on low-power FM may mark a welcome swing toward localized broadcasting. “The damage that LPFM would supposedly cause to broadcasters simply didn’t exist, and the case for re-instating the original proposal is overwhelming,” he writes for AlterNet. (Coverage in Current.)

“Their shows are making money, that’s why I air them over and over again,” says a Maryland Public TV pledge producer, referring to pledge programs produced by Long Island station WLIW. Newsday examines the growth of WLIW’s pledge production business.

BE Radio gives an engineer’s view of NPR’s West Coast production facility.

KUOW-FM in Seattle is paying tribute to Cynthia Doyon, a swing jazz host for the station who committed suicide earlier this week. The Seattle Times and Seattle Post-Intelligencer ran obituaries.

“Because public radio is a resource for us as citizens, it makes sense to have our participation,” says Jay Allison of Transom, his watering hole for independent producers, in the New York Times.

The University of Massachusetts in Lowell has upset students and community activists by giving 25 hours a week of its FM station’s airtime to a local newspaper, according to the Boston Phoenix. [More coverage in the Lowell Sun and the Boston Globe.]

Newsweek previews David Isay’s latest project, StoryCorps.

KCTS cut 30 jobs in layoffs that targeted production staff, report the Seattle Weekly and the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

The Las Vegas Mercury previews changes at the city’s KNPR, which begins operating a second FM signal this fall.

Tyne Daly and Ruby Dee star in a staged reading of John Hersey’s Hiroshima, airing today on Pacifica stations. [More coverage in the New York Daily News.]

Chicago’s WBEZ-FM is studying ways to acquire a second frequency in the city, reports the Sun-Times.

Public radio engineers say that iBiquity Digital Corp. has improved its digital audio codec, reports BE Radio. Meanwhile, WGUC-FM in Cincinnati has gone digital.

KPCC-FM in Los Angeles and K-Mozart, a local commercial classical station, will promote each other on their airwaves, reports the Los Angeles Times.

Any pressure the producers of Day to Day might feel is understandable. The new show’s selling points read like a wish list compiled by someone burping up buzzwords from pubradio confabs. NPR pitches the newsmag — its first since Weekend Edition Sunday, 16 years ago — as a midday show newsy enough to draw listeners on lunch breaks back to NPR, but zesty and offbeat enough to pepper the schedule with diversity and youthfulness. Not only that, but stations are looking to Day to Day to lift ratings between their towering drivetime tentpoles, Morning Edition and All Things Considered. Further, as pubcasters hunt high and low for partnerships, Day to Day builds off an editorial and promotional relationship with Microsoft’s online magazine Slate — a pairing that has alarmed a few media watchdogs.

The New York Times reports on choices in cable and satellite TV for video-on-demand and high-def programming, and how these services may change in the next year.