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House Committee OKs Advance Funds for Public Broadcasting

Stevie Converse — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 08:45:24 -0700

What a difference a new Congress makes.

A House Appropriations Subcommittee has not only continued to grant the Corporation for Public Broadcasting advance funding, it has agreed to a $430 million appropriation for FY 2011 that is $10 million more than 2010.

Conservative Blogger Wants Net Neutrality, Not Internet Payola

Stevie Converse — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:08:34 -0700

NPR’s Brian Lehrer today found that there is an issue in 2008, on which many from both the left and the right agree.

Net Neutrality Brings Foes Together

Stevie Converse — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 07:00:42 -0700

Conservative Instapundit blogger Glenn Reynolds did the unthinkable today: He agreed with a liberal, which is likely against stricter interpretations of The Conservative Thought Bubble Creed (Hannity, Defense Against Liberal Arts, pg.

NPR Earthquake Coverage Raises Radio's Voice

Stevie Converse — Thu, 22 May 2008 09:39:20 -0700

For more than a week, some of the most compelling news coverage on TV has been radio news coverage.

National Public Radio Rejcts Higher Status for Low-Power FM

Stevie Converse — Thu, 22 May 2008 05:35:18 -0700

Advocates for full-power pubradio stations and their low-power FM cousins are at odds again over FCC proposals to allocate more frequencies for LPFM, whose extent and prerogatives have been debated since the commission authorized the new class of noncommercial stations in 2000.

Public Radio Tries to Reignite Its Public

Holiday Shapiro — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:40:47 -0700

Public radio is drawing its largest audience ever, some 28 million listeners nationwide each week. But if it’s a golden era, you wouldn’t know it from the frenetic activity to remake the genre.

NPR's War on Low Power FM: the Laws of Physics vs. Politics

Holiday Shapiro — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:19:13 -0700

National Public Radio continues to move aggressively against Federal Communications Commission proposals that would, if not allow nonprofits to build more Low Power FM stations (LPFM), at least let existing ones survive the intrusion of new full power neighbors.