Tech
NPR offers new interconnection option for public radio networks
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The new offering promises pubcasters a simpler way to provide more localized programming over state and regional networks.
Tech
WFMU’s Audience Engine aims to help make public media sustainable
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The content management system is designed to aid content creators in growing audience and digital fundraising.
Tech
A top audio engineer explains NPR’s signature sound
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The crisp, bright tone comes from a particular microphone — and a few other elements.
Tech
Student entrepreneurs work to fulfill promise of pubmedia apps
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Winners of a Reynolds Journalism Institute’s student competition continue to tweak their products and target prospective partners.
Tech
Pubcasters seek relief in carriage standoff with satellite companies
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Some satellite TV subscribers lack access to news, public affairs and other programming from their state networks.
Tech
Public Radio Satellite System joins PBS in testing IP-based interconnection
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PBS is moving ahead with plans to return most of its distribution to ground level via a new fiber-based system that promises more versatility.
Tech
Chicago Public Media announces plan for digital upgrades, products
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The station also hired its first chief digital officer.
Tech
Chicago Public Media, The Lens among Knight Prototype Fund recipients
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The Knight Prototype Fund announced the projects receiving funding for 2015, including four public media and nonprofit news organizations.
Tech
Winning student-created app matches listener’s interests to Public Media Platform content
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SoundStir, an Android app that lets users customize a feed of public radio stories and build communities around topics, took first place in the eighth annual Reynolds Journalism Institute Student Competition.
Tech
Inconsistent Nielsen data vexes public radio stations and inspires a commercial solution
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A new audio processing device takes on a shortcoming of the Portable People Meter system.
Tech
Public Media Platform aims to expand reach with new tools
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The system developed for digital content distribution hopes to increase adoption among stations.
Tech
Venturing off the Strip, engineering conference adds attendees for second year
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A new location for the conference helped to reduce costs.
Tech
Sony, WGBH roll out cloud-based alternative to master-control systems
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The companies say Public Media Management should save stations money while protecting their ability to control local programming.
KQED
KQED tries out Square Cash to boost mobile giving
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KQED joined up with Square when the mobile payment processor expanded its Square Cash app to include nonprofits and businesses.
Tech
StoryCorps unveils app that records anyone’s story
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StoryCorps releases an app that its founder calls “the biggest experiment since launching StoryCorps.”
Tech
PRSS delays fix for audio levels
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The Public Radio Satellite System has pushed back its plan to change the level at which it provides audio to member stations.
Programs/Content
PlanPhilly sees brighter future with move to WHYY
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The site covers beats including the Philadelphia City Planning Commission, the city’s zoning code and preservation and transportation issues.
Programs/Content
Matter launches new class of media startups
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Media startup accelerator Matter launches its fourth class on entrepreneurs.
Tech
Aereo’s end comes with court-approved asset sale
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Bankrupt Internet TV service Aereo’s curtain call will be a sale of its assets, ending a series of legal setbacks that landed the company in Chapter 11 bankruptcy last year. Aereo filed for bankruptcy Nov. 11 following legal losses that essentially prevented it from operating and thwarted its attempt to reinvent itself as a cable television operator. The bankruptcy court approved a process last month for Aereo to sell its streaming technology, allowing broadcasters who initiated the legal fight to weigh in on the sale. Aereo had operated a subscription service using banks of dime-sized antennas to capture broadcast signals and convert them into streaming video distributed over the Internet.
Programs/Content
Fix to pubradio’s loudness problem rolls out to stations
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Sssshhh . . . the sound of public radio is about to get a little quieter. But if all goes according to a plan unveiled last month by the Public Radio Satellite Service, listeners won’t notice the change in audio levels for programs distributed to stations around the country.