In case you can't remember what cicadas sound like, the University of Michigan offers audio files along with close-up photos and detailed text. Public broadcasters will have to put up with it just like everybody else.

Not waiting until Morning Edition's 25th anniversary to reassign host Bob Edwards made NPR executives looked as if "we didn't care about Bob," says NPR Executive Vice President Ken Stern in the Philadelphia Inquirer (reg. req.).

A Japanese company will sponsor a British knight's series on American innovators. WGBH says Olympus backed Sir Harold Evans' They Made America, on PBS in November.