Jan 2, 2003
Dec 30, 2002
On Jan. 6, Baton Rouge pubradio station WRKF will be the latest to drop daytime music on weekdays to carry more news and info programming, the Baton Rouge Advocate reports.
Chicago Sun-Times critic Phil Rosenthal pans Austin Hoyt's American Experience three-parter on Chicago, which he says gives the city a "4-1/2-hour thrashing," with none of the affection of Ric Burns's and Lisa Ades's history of New York. [Earlier Current article.]
Dec 20, 2002
WHYY aired a talk show on the pitfalls of grant-funded journalism Dec. 17, but the station's own central role in such a controversy was kept off the air, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer. News Director Bill Fantini resigned Dec. 9, the day before the Philadelphia Daily News reported on a widely criticized news-funding partnership he negotiated.
Dec 18, 2002
Muslim-American businesses and organizations sponsored the two-hour PBS documentary "Muhammad: Legacy of a Prophet," notes Alessandra Stanley in a New York Times review, and the program has the feel of a "lengthy informercial for Islam." But the doc is "well worth watching both as the first serious attempt to tell the story of Muhammed on television and also as a testimony to the hypersensitivity of our times." In the LA Times, Howard Rosenberg described the program as a "candid, thoughtful, flowing, visually stunning film."
Dec 17, 2002
USA Today looks at audience trends for financial advice programs, and declares that the competing Wall Street Week franchises both "look like losers."
Dec 16, 2002
Chicago's WBEZ-FM assumed management of community station WLUW-FM Dec. 4, reports the Chicago Sun-Times.
The Washington Post previews I'd Rather Eat Pants, a serial drama airing this week on NPR's Morning Edition.
Maine Public Broadcasting may have to lay off employees as it deals with a budget shortfall, reports the Portland Press Herald.
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