Rising program costs have prompted WRVO-FM in Oswego, N.Y., to drop some PRI shows and consider axing The Splendid Table, reports the Syracuse Post-Standard. MPR will soon distribute its own shows, which costs stations that air its programming an additional affiliation fee.

Dick Gordon, host of public radio's The Connection, lives across the street from boss Jane Christo in a home full of "extraordinary international furnishings and artifacts," according to a Boston Globe feature.