A closer look at some highlights from the data.
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WHRO acquires oldies station with ‘passionate’ following
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With a signal boost and rebranding of WFOS as the Time Machine Radio Network, WHRO aims to reach a new audience of listeners and future donors. “There’s nothing else like it on the air,” said CEO Bert Schmidt.
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How the Hindsight Project built new relationships between Southern stations and BIPOC filmmakers
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“It’s BIPOC filmmakers telling stories from their own communities,” said Nick Price, series producer with Reel South. “It’s not people who are from outside the South coming in and telling what they conceive of the South.”
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What might have happened: NPR sells off cultural programming, new network dubbed ‘NPR Music & Entertainment’
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In an alternate reality in 1983, NPR President Frank Mankiewicz, desperate for cash, unloads the network’s arts programs on a consortium of major-market stations. Where would arts programming be today?
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NEA grant supports use of WTJU jazz history show in classrooms
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The community radio station in Charlottesville, Va., will turn the show “Jazz at 100” into a curriculum for high school and early college students.
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NPR will end ‘Ask Me Another’ in September
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The weekly hour of comedy, trivia and music airs on more than 300 stations.
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How to build the next generation of public radio listeners
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Stop wringing your hands over how to attract Millennial and Gen Z audiences — focus on creating programs that give them more reasons to listen.
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Sesame Workshop focuses on racial literacy with four-year Coming Together initiative
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The project’s content will encourage conversations “that parents, caregivers or providers often don’t know how to start.”
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Radio Diaries, ‘Radiolab’ team up to produce their own documentaries on Black Swan Records
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After learning they were separately pursuing stories on the pioneering label and its founder, producers Joe Richman and Jad Abumrad decided to share tape and research.
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Citing finances and audience strategy, New Hampshire Public Radio ends ‘Exchange’
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The change comes after longtime host Laura Knoy announced that she would step down.