Standing by their decision to keep Democracy Now! off their airwaves, WXXI officials are maintaining their stance that the show fails to meet the station’s standards for balance and objectivity. City Newspaper placed calls to WXXI Radio News Director Peter Iglinski and Radio Vice President Jeanne Fisher, and our questions were referred to Creative Director […]
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Reader feedback 8.11.04
MEDIA WATCH By the time WRUR completes all the program changes and personnel, they will have lost their listenership (“Anything but Static,” July 14). For the past six years, I’ve enjoyed listening to the Friday nights Blues programs by Scott Wallace and Doug Curry. My husband and I would arrange our evening around their programs […]
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Reader feedback 7.28.04
Helping Sudan,
debating Iraq
action, strengthening HighFalls
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Reader feedback 7.21.04
WXXI and ‘Democracy,’ the schools crisis, moving billboards, the Ginna sale
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Anything but static: more changes at WRUR
It’s Thursday night, and DJs Jason Cuthbert and Chris Green are in the new WRUR studio recording an episode of Cuthbert’s show, Wide Awake. A song by Kanye West and the rapper Consequence starts the show. A tune by G-Unit rapper Lloyd Banks, another by A Tribe Called Quest, and another by Jadakiss featuring Anthony […]
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Democracy… later?
Internet streaming, for the time being, will be the only way Rochester-area residents can watch or listen to the award-winning independent news program, Democracy Now! The show, hosted by journalists Amy Goodman and Juan Gonzalez, is broadcast on more than 225 Pacifica, National Public Radio, and community stations throughout the country. But WXXI won’t […]
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Just press ‘play’
For 10 years, Dorian Hall has spun hip-hop records on a radio show called “The Hot Spot” on WRUR (88.5 FM), the University of Rochester’s student-run radio station. And call-ins by students and community members have been the lifeblood of the show, which is broadcast live Thursday evenings from 6 to 8 o’clock. While […]
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Payback billionaire?
You could have seen it coming. Back in November, WXXI Public Broadcasting aired a locally produced documentary that, according to promo material, explores the life of Paychex billionaire and free-spending ex-gubernatorial candidate Tom Golisano. The documentary, which “highlights his achievements,” was WXXI’s first in-house production to be shown on WXXI-HD 21.1, the station’s high-definition channel. […]
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Reader feedback 8.6.03
Metro works Once again county Republicans are showing their disingenuousness and ignorance. Eight town supervisors demonstrated on the steps of City Hall on July 24 in an effort to discredit Rochester Mayor and County Executive candidate Bill Johnson, and confuse the voters about his position on metro government. Greece Supervisor John Auberger’s remark that […]
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Reader feedback 7.30.03
NPR at RUR, College sounds, Cleaning up, Summer sounds
