Connection Personnel Quit over WBUR Rift. This most literate and au courant of radio talk shows is on my local NPR station, but many of you in other areas are probably familiar with it already, among other reasons because it had an hour on weblogging last May that’s been broadly blinked. The show has recently become nationally syndicated. Erudite host Christopher Lydon and his senior producer were suspended in a contract dispute several days ago, which is essentially about who is going to reap the benefits of the syndication. WBUR was determined not to lose control in the same way they did when Car Talk went national several years ago. The station says The Connection will go on, but without Lydon who’d listen? Key WBUR personnel agree, and have now resigned in support of preserving the show as it is/was. Even if you think he’s abit pompous at times, he rounds up the most fascinating guests and asks the right questions.