Month: October 2015
For first time, podcasts beat traditional radio at Third Coast awards
The Radiotopia podcast collective made the biggest splash, taking home three awards.Spiegel: New ‘Invisibilia’ season won’t premiere until at least spring 2016
“Doing these kinds of shows takes a really long time,” said the show’s co-creator.NPR hires newscaster to be stationed at NPR West
The newscasts will mark NPR’s first to originate from its West Coast studios.Most members of WTMD board have resigned, says former chair
All but one of the board‘s 11 independent members have quit, said Steven Reeves.The Pub #41: Marketplace’s Ben Johnson and his unusual new podcast, Codebreaker
Everybody has a new podcast these days, but this one does something quite novel with the medium.CPB’s Pat Harrison turns down Fiat awarded as raffle prize
The decision was not a popular one among her family.Fred Jacobs: “To a great degree, public radio has two audiences”
The audience researcher discusses findings of his company’s latest Public Radio Tech Survey.Third top departure from Greater Public, Bromberg retires in Milwaukee and other comings and goings ...
Ellis Bromberg will leave public broadcasting after almost 40 years.Deal with Miami station keeps NPR on air in Palm Beach
WLRN reached an agreement with Educational Media Foundation, the translator’s new owner.David Remnick: “Radio is an obsession of mine”
The New Yorker editor previews the magazine’s new weekly radio show, a collaboration with WNYC.WNET moves ‘MetroFocus’ newsmagazine from weekly to daily
The public affairs show started four years ago as a web-only production.Longtime WAMU host Ed Walker to retire
Walker has hosted The Big Broadcast on WAMU since 1990 and helped launch the station in 1951.Nielsen tweaks measurement of radio audience amid hush-hush adoption of Voltair boxes
A Nielsen Audio chief engineer tacitly acknowledged that the company’s PPM technology does not fully measure listening in noisy real-world environments.FCC issues initial bids for first phase of spectrum auction
Among the larger opening bids for public television spectrum are $775 million for New Jersey Public Television and $672 million for WLIW, ...CBC approach to election coverage offers lessons for U.S. pubmedia
The CBC digital team’s latest major voter-engagement initiative is a collaboration with Google’s civic engagement team.