Quick Takes
Friday roundup: WYPR union effort stalls; Downton Abbey reportedly bans modern undies
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Plus: Mike Starling starts an LPFM station, and NPR’s creative director talks about her work process.
Programs/Content
Rock, rot and rule: Best Show ends as Tom Scharpling looks to a life beyond WFMU
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From WFMU’s tiny studios in Jersey City, N.J., using only rock songs, his own creativity and contributions of guests and callers, Scharpling created a world of comedy unto itself over the course of The Best Show.
People
Phil Charles, former g.m. of Montana’s KGLT-FM, dies at 65
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Phil Charles, retired longtime g.m. of KGLT-FM in Bozeman, Mont., died Nov. 29 of heart failure at his home in Cape May Court House, N.J. He was 65. Charles joined KGLT in the 1980s and stayed for more than two decades before retiring in 2010. He introduced a freeform format on the station. A licensee of Montana State University, KGLT brands itself as “Alternative Public Radio” and airs music and several nationally distributed public radio programs.
Before arriving in Bozeman, Charles worked at a series of alternative stations throughout the 1970s, including KSAN in San Francisco and KSJO and KOME in San Jose, Calif.