Current (https://current.org/project-category/radio/page/12/)
The Capitol Coverage Project is a joint effort of 14 non-commercial public and community radio stations mainly in Colorado, with stations in Utah and New Mexico. Jointly directed through an agreement between KUNC and KRCC, it funds a full-time state house reporter year-round, providing daily news feeds to all the participating stations from sessions of the Colorado State Legislature.
Texas Standard is setting a new bar for broadcast news coverage, offering crisp, up-to-the-moment coverage of politics, lifestyle and culture, the environment, technology and innovation, and business and the economy – from a Texas perspective – and uncovering stories as they happen and spotting the trends that will shape tomorrow’s headlines.
WNIN broadcasts a Summer of Music series each of the last eight years with the goal of celebrating the rich heritage of live music in the area. We visit major music festivals to record performances and broadcast live or air the following week. We also produce a retrospective program with audio from all the festivals on Labor Day to conclude the series.
Wisconsin Life is a multiplatform project highlighting what it means to live in or be from Wisconsin.
For two years WXXI Classical has presented Performance Rochester. During April, the station broadcasts live performances of local groups recorded in local concert halls or at WXXI, highlighting one group performance each day. Many ensembles are involved and the music covers all time periods and a variety of instrumentation and voices. WXXI’s lists all pieces on its website with links to pages with more detail and podcasts of each piece. Social media is used to promote the initiative.
KUTX Live At Mueller is an outdoor music series that makes music events accessible to families with children.
Precious Lives is a multiplatform civic engagement project that examines the crisis of gun violence among young people in the Milwaukee area. Over its two-year life, it aspires to “open conversations” between individuals, organizations and community constituencies. Partners include 371 Productions; public radio’s WUWM-FM; WNOV-AM, a black community-oriented commercial station; the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel; and the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.
Have you ever wondered what makes a new song into a good song? Or why we like the songs we like? West Virginia Public Broadcasting hosts #WhyListen: First Listen Music Party at venues throughout the state. Free by RSVP required by email. Meet Mountain Stage hosts and vote on your favorite new bands and songs.
In conjunction with the 2013 release of the PBS series, Makers: Women Who Make America, WCNY launched Central New York Makers Awards to honor women making contributions to their communities in WCNY’s viewing area. Nominees are evaluated on their efforts in their own communities that help shape today’s America. The awards ceremony is held at the Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, NY — the birthplace of the women’s suffrage movement — located near Syracuse.
To create a distinctive sound, we partner with the Boston Conservatory to compose and produce “sonic signatures.” 20 composition students competed to create the winning sounders, one winner. The winners created 115 variations, which were recorded with the full Boston Conservatory Orchestra at our WGBH studios. These Sounders are now central to the WCRB sound.
Mug Stops is an event series where listeners are invited to have coffee with CVE and purchase $10 mugs to donate to the station. The fundraiser events bring the community and the station closer together, while promoting WCVE.
Columbus Neighborhoods is a multi-platform project that originally produced 12 one-hour historical-cultural TV documentaries. It is now a magazine-type weekly primetime 30 min TV series with a robust digital presence. The project has high local recognition and is now partnering with WOSU’s radio news operation on a series about Vietnam vets and another about the wealth disparity in Columbus. The video segments are evolving from pure history to history as context for serious local issues.
KVNF Field Sessions is a video series showcasing musical acts in western Colorado jointly produced by KVNF and Lost Cabin Productions. It helped bring the station new partners and volunteers with new perspectives.
The Public Media Commons is a space that acts as a catalyst for community engagement.
The Blunt Youth Radio Project brings together high school students in Maine to plan, produce and host a one-hour weekly public affairs program on WMPG. From choosing topics, locating qualified guests, planning interviews, creating complimentary features to extend the topic of the show, and many other activities, the students are in charge as the engineers, the hosts, the producers, the publicists and the interviewers.
In 2014, when we fell short of our annual revenue goal, we didn’t feel comfortable just asking more from our listeners without offering something in return. Thus, the Community Service Fundraiser was born. From late-November to New Year’s Eve for every $500 raised in support of WERS, we “pay it forward” by donating one hour of volunteer to Rosie’s Place, the nation’s first shelter for poor and homeless women. One gift, double the impact — it’s now WERS holiday tradition.
Collaboration between MPR and KERA that marked a moment of crisis in both communities, after the shootings in St. Paul and Dallas. A live choral event for people in both cities to sing together and find solace after these painful events. Read Current’s story.
WILL has been partnering with local agencies to produce content related to gun violence. We are producing radio segments, community engagement, agency meetings, and content for other platforms. Plans are now being developed to present a Town-Hall style meeting to be televised.
Collaborative, digital first effort to produce local music acts. Used for radio, TV and digital. We tapped into local interest in behind the scene music to be delivered to phones, iPad and laptops. “Skyline Sessions is a web series showcasing exceptional music performances by artists based in Houston and beyond. Our state-of-the-art George B. Geary Performance Studio hosts musicians in an intimate setting with an emphasis on capturing the unique experience of live studio recording.
The Outdoorsy podcast was created to share stories about the people and places of Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon national parks. Each episode, between 15-20 minutes, places the listener rock climbing, spelunking or other outdoor activities to give a feel for the parks. We feel it’s a great way to be hyper-local and take listeners on an experience that explains the places around them in a fresh way.