Tag: WAMU
Raymond Davis, WAMU host with ‘encyclopedic’ knowledge of bluegrass, dies at 81
Raymond Davis, a veteran broadcaster who influenced and nurtured the bluegrass music scene as a music host for WAMU in Washington, D.C., ...McDonald, Holt to leave WAMU
Longtime Programming Director Mark McDonald and Engineering Director John Holt will be leaving WAMU-FM in Washington, D.C., according to the station. McDonald will ...NPR, WAMU limit use of Washington football team’s name
An NPR editor has recommended that network journalists avoid referring to the Washington Redskins by their name and should instead use “Washington” ...Monday roundup: PBS ombud takes up purported Harper’s spat; WAMU euthanizes Animal House
Plus: Public radio's shifting economics, and The Moth crosses the pond.Wednesday roundup: WAMU revises schedule; pubcasters enter Mass. hall of fame
Plus: A Mississippi reporter discusses his difficult past, and Carl Kasell assists with a marriage proposal.Washington’s WAMU aims to buy signal south of D.C.
WAMU-FM in Washington, D.C., will enter the Fredericksburg, Va., market with the pending purchase of 8,000-watt WWED 89.5-FM. WAMU has proposed to buy ...Yore tapped as new g.m. of Washington, D.C.’s WAMU
JJ Yore, co-creator of public radio’s Marketplace and a former v.p. and executive producer with American Public Media, will step into a station leadership ...Thursday roundup: Flappy Bert takes to the air, WAMU host skis to work
• Less than a week after the maker of the wildly popular mobile game Flappy Bird announced he would pull the plug on his creation, Sesame ...Pubcasters capture 21 national Edward R. Murrow Awards
WLRN in Miami won large-market radio Murrows for feature reporting and use of sound. Chicago’s WBEZ also won for news documentary and ...‘Status quo’ no longer feasible for Delmarva’s local stations
An analysis recommends that the Salisbury University Foundation negotiate with another pubcaster to operate its two Delmarva Public Radio outlets as music ...Radio Netherlands cancels The State We’re In
The State We’re In, an English-language public radio series produced by Radio Netherlands Worldwide in partnership with WAMU in Washington, D.C., will shut down ...There’s no one formula for radio’s weekends
With national producers offering new programs and the Magliozzi Brothers retiring from Car Talk, program directors at public radio stations may have an opportune ...Ombudsman seeks details on WAMU ‘meet the producers’ event
CPB ombudsman Joel Kaplan has urged WAMU-FM in Washington, D.C., to release more information about a gathering of major donors and station ...No-chat zone ’twixt funders and reporters?
Radio news veteran Jim Asendio resigned as news director of Washington’s WAMU-FM last week after an internal dispute over a private fundraising ...Gerald Poulsen, a.k.a. WAMU bluegrass host Jerry Gray, dies at 78
Gerald Poulsen, known in radio as bluegrass music host Jerry Gray, died Feb. 2 in Roanoke, Va. He was 78. His son ...
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