Topic: DN! MI Public Radio Campaign

Thursday, January 11, 2006
WLUCTV6
http://www.wluctv6.com/Global/story.asp?S=5924148

HD (high definition) is not just for television anymore. One local radio station is becoming the first in the U.P. to broadcast with a cleaner and clearer digital signal.

In addition to its regular analog signal, last month WNMU Public Radio 90 started broadcasting in digital HD. The new digital signal sorts out interference and limits static and hissing. It can also offer multiple programs running at the same time.

Most of the money for the project has been raised through grants and donations, but they still need $30,000 to finish the first phase.

Susan Whitall / The Detroit News
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060330/ENT02/603300421/1032/ENT

Friday begins spring fundraising for public radio stations WDET-FM ( 101.9), WUOM-FM (91.7) and WRCJ-FM (90.9), and it's going to be anything but a routine few weeks, for any of them.

State: At U-M public radio station, Coleman, 2 others accepted perks.
Susan Whitall And Marisa Schultz / The Detroit News
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060317/METRO/603170394/1003

The head of public radio in Detroit was charged with embezzlement Thursday, accused of accepting money, airline tickets and lodging while he worked as deputy director of a radio station owned and operated by the University of Michigan.

Michael Coleman, general manager of Wayne State University's WDET-FM, was charged in 14A District Court in Ann Arbor with one felony count of embezzlement while at his former job at Michigan Public Media's WUOM-FM (91.7). He could face five years in prison, a fine of $10,000 or three times the amount embezzled, whichever is more.

Two other former Michigan Public Media employees -- Jeremy Nordquist, 28, of Saline and Justin Ebright, 35, of Whitmore Lake -- were also each charged with two felony counts of embezzlement and conspiracy to embezzle property and goods worth more than $1,000 but less than $20,000.

Thursday, March 16, 2006
by Susan Whitall / The Detroit News
http://www.detnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060316/ENT02/603160413/1032/ENT

The news had been percolating through channels for a week that veteran Detroit radio executive Steve Schram was being considered for Donovan Reynolds ' job as director of Michigan Public Media at the University of Michigan.

Finally on Wednesday, U-M made it official.

Thursday, March 02, 2006
BY ROGER LELIEVRE
News Arts Writer
Ann Arbor News
http://www.mlive.com/news/aanews/index.ssf?/base/news-16/114131420040660.xml&coll=2

Donovan Reynolds, coordinator of the University of Michigan's public radio and television services, has resigned effective Wednesday.

Reynolds was director of Michigan Public Media, the umbrella organization that covers WUOM, 91.7-FM; affiliated radio stations in Flint and Grand Rapids; Michigan Television, the public-TV channel that broadcasts as WFUM from Flint; and the Michigan Channel, which carries U-M programming on the local Comcast cable system.