PUBLIC RADIO SUED OVER DONOR LISTS
source: Yahoo News

The state's attorney general sued Minnesota Public Radio today for allegedly sharing its donor lists with the Democratic National Committee and others, saying MPR broke laws governing charities.
In the lawsuit filed in Ramsey County District Court, Attorney General Mike Hatch seeks civil penalties against the network. He alleges that MPR, which produces Garrison Keillor's "A Prairie Home Companion,'' allowed 100 organizations to use its member information, sometimes even including member phone numbers.
"This translates into 3 million member names, addresses and phone numbers disclosed for fund-raising solicitations,'' according to Hatch's summary of the lawsuit.
The suit alleged that MPR members did not get enough information on how their names and addresses would be distributed to other groups, and that this lapse constituted fraud under state laws on charities.
Over the summer, it was revealed that at least two dozen public television stations had exchanged membership lists with political groups, causing problems in Washington for public broadcasting, which has nonprofit status.

(The MPR statement can be found here.)

RADIO UNICA BUYS STATIONS
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Radio Unica Communications Corp., the first and only national, 24-hour Spanish language radio network in the U.S., announced that it has entered into an definitive agreement to acquire KFRE-AM 940 in Fresno from radio and television station owner Harry J. Pappas. The station's AM signal is one of the strongest in Fresno and the Central Valley region.
Radio Unica also announced that it has entered into a time brokerage agreement and option to acquire KURS-AM 1040, the only AM Spanish-language station to serve the San Diego market, from Quetzal Bilingual Communications, Inc. starting January 1, 2000.