Author: Mike Janssen
Car Talk was still #1 among NPR weekend shows in spring 2012
A new report from Walrus Research shows that NPR’s Car Talk continued its streak as NPR’s most popular weekend program in Spring 2012, with Wait ...Cleveland’s WCLV will go noncommercial
Cleveland commercial classical station WCLV-FM will begin operating as a noncommercial entity Jan. 1, 2013, the station’s owner, ideastream, announced yesterday. “The ...What to do about public radio’s ratings slide?
Now that Arbitron’s new ratings methodology is providing consistent and crunchable year-to-year data on radio listening, public radio programmers and producers are ...NPR budget for 2013 projects $5 million deficit
The 2013 budget approved by the NPR Board Sept. 14 projects a $5.1 million operating deficit, with expenses adding up to $185.5 ...Listen to audio from last week’s PRPD conference
Audio from last week’s Public Radio Program Directors conference in Las Vegas is now available on PRPD’s website, including the keynote address ...There’s no one formula for radio’s weekends
With national producers offering new programs and the Magliozzi Brothers retiring from Car Talk, program directors at public radio stations may have an opportune ...Jefferson Public Radio’s deal with university splits radio from real estate
A new agreement between Southern Oregon University and Jefferson Public Radio settles the months-long dispute between the two parties over control of ...NPR, WNYC collaborate to make ‘Ask Me Another’ weekly starting in January
NPR is teaming up with New York’s WNYC to make its trivia and quiz show Ask Me Another into a weekly offering, starting in ...Ifill made “big mistake” in defending fired journalist, says PBS’s ombud
In his latest column, PBS Ombudsman Michael Getler considers a recent flap involving PBS NewsHour correspondent Gwen Ifill, who on Wednesday tweeted in support ...Philly’s WXPN brings less-known blues musicians to town
This month Philadelphia’s WXPN launched the Mississippi Blues Project, a concert series and website featuring eight musicians who have had limited exposure outside ...Public radio to go deep on political coverage with launch of GOP convention
Here’s a roundup of how NPR, Democracy Now! and Tampa's WUSF are covering the party conventions.M. Ward debuts pubradio app for iPhones
Musician and public radio fan M. Ward has created an iPhone app that serves as a guide to noncommercial radio stations across ...NPR’s embedded bards riff on news through poetic lens
NPR’s All Things Considered now comes with a monthly dose of poetry, courtesy of poets who embed themselves among the network’s journalists...Insistent sponsors put newsrooms on alert
Underwriters of public radio programs increasingly want to link their names more closely to particular stories and reporting projects, according to station ...NPR hires top YMCA fundraiser as new chief development officer
NPR has hired Monique Hanson, senior v.p. and chief development officer for YMCA of the USA, as its chief development officer. Hanson joined ...
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