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Giving by texting: So far, you’d LOL at net proceeds
Americans’ response to the post-earthquake crisis in Haiti demonstrated the power of technology-enabled charity, but public broadcasters who ...Radio nets and PBS propose ‘public media platform’ based on API
Remember when policymakers referred to the Internet as the “information superhighway?” The analogy is being adapted to describe an NPR-proposed “public media platform” ...Radio nets and PBS propose ‘public media platform’ based on API
... National Public Radio requested CPB aid to begin technical and business planning of a shared web platform with American Public Media, ...As media finally converge, it’s coming down to this
So what will journalism and, for that matter, all content look like in five years and how will it be delivered? It ...To save journalism, click ’n’ donate?
Now a dot-com called Kachingle is starting to roll out an online service designed to make voluntary support easy for even the ...For WAMU and its listeners, HD Radio means more slices of pie to go around
As a self-proclaimed evangelist for HD Radio, I am often asked why I have inculcated it so deeply in the workings of ...Smartphone apps for web listening grow in variety
NPR is working on three or four web audio players for different brands of smartphones. And the company behind the Public Radio ...One story with 1,700 authors
Cars burn in downtown Nashville. Police patrol Boise after massive power outages, widespread looting and near-riots. Our intrepid video correspondent, Kal, rides ...Fred Friendly’s solar-powered plan to give public TV independence
... Friendly began toying with an idea for a permanent source of funding for noncommercial television. In the spring of 1966 ...Analog television debris: Where oh where to put it?
CPB is planning a station survey to determine the extent of a problem that has crept up practically unnoticed during planning ...Nine pubTV stations plan digicasting to mobile devices by year’s end
Broadcasters, including nine pubTV stations and more than 50 network affiliates, will launch mobile DTV in 22 markets later this year, proponents ...Wave of brief analog shutdowns are clear warnings to over-air viewers
As if they march under the banner, “Leave no grandma behind,” commercial and public stations, city by city, have begun a series ...More power for HD Radio, more buzz on analog
An extensive study by NPR Labs points to significant trade-offs between the audience reach of digital HD Radio and the amount of ...Public Interactive repositioned as online utility for the system
Two initiatives led by NPR will soon offer station websites greater automated handling of editorial content and national sales of underwriting to ...
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