Tech
Schedule: web platform model by year’s end
An NPR-led project this month officially launched planning for a joint Public Media Platform to put public radio and TV content on ...What public stations should consider about upgrading HD Radio power
Two of NPR’s top technologists recently back from the NAB Show share the microphone to weigh the pros and cons for stations ...Mobile giving a ‘no-brainer’ for TAL postcast audience
It’s not the best way to collect big annual gifts from station members, pubcasting fundraisers agree. But This American Life’s producers confirmed that giving-by-texting ...How to get the best quality out of the digital television standard
PBS convened and CPB supported the PBS Quality Group’s evangelism for DTV quality in 2010 and 2011. The group, including tech specialists ...It’s a plan
Comic recreation of a gripping behind-the-scenes drama playing itself out at the Federal Communications Commission, animated using Xtranormal technology.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 ...
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