In one of her first acts as the new education secretary, Margaret Spellings denounced PBS for using its Ready to Learn grant to fund a children's show depicting a lesbian couple and their children. The Boston Globe reported that producing station WGBH delayed the debut of an episode of Postcards from Buster so that stations could review it before broadcast.

A deejay at Rollins College's WPRK-FM in Winter Park, Fla., has unofficially set the world record for the longest continuous radio broadcast by a single DJ, reports USA Today. As Current reported in 2001, another noncommercial DJ, Glen Jones, set an earlier record. (Via iloveradio.org.)