Tag: Apps
With ‘Smartbinge,’ WNYC aims to raise national profile for digital content
In an effort to position itself as a national brand in public radio, New York’s WNYC is launching an ad campaign likening ...Student-designed Android app gathers donations for public radio’s producers
My2Cents Radio took top prize in an app-development competition co-sponsored by the Public Media Platform.WNYC’s new feature lets listeners create, download playlists
New York Public Radio’s WNYC recently beefed up its mobile app with a personalization feature allowing users to generate playlists of news ...Forthcoming NPR mobile app could advance public radio’s quest for digital audience
Public radio executives who have long bemoaned the field’s collective inability to pursue innovation have a new opportunity to alter that dynamic ...NPR to stock new mobile app by aiding stations on back end
NPR is preparing member stations to provide local news for the network’s new mobile app, slated for release by summer. NPR content chief ...New Ken Burns app and website showcase 30 years of history films
PBS filmmaker Ken Burns put a new spin on U.S. history today, debuting his first app and a new website dedicated to ...PBS, stations lukewarm to CPTV’s ‘pay to play’ mobile app
Local public TV stations and PBS have opted, for now, to sit out of Connecticut Public Television’s new digital venture offering paid ...Frontline teams with PRX to develop iPad app
WGBH's long-running documentary program is partnering with the Public Radio Exchange to develop a free app for iPad users.Looking to get in listeners’ pockets
A growing number of public radio stations can now be found on mobile devices, their signature icons wedged between Angry Birds and ...PRX set to launch overhaul of Public Radio Player iPhone app
Four years after the first iteration of PRX’s Public Radio Player iPhone launched, a complete, “ground-up rewrite” is ready, with features including ...PBS inks deals for on-demand access to local station content
PBS unveiled deals to distribute public TV programs on two additional on-demand video streaming platforms — Roku and Xbox Live. The contracts, unveiled last ...M. Ward debuts pubradio app for iPhones
Musician and public radio fan M. Ward has created an iPhone app that serves as a guide to noncommercial radio stations across ...NPR app for motorists gets radio from the Web as well as stations
Some new Ford cars will let their drivers shout “hourly news!” or “topics!” and choose public radio programming either on their local ...PRX gets some fuel to incubate public-media journalism tools
With $2.5 million from the Knight Foundation, Public Radio Exchange will rev up a new Public Media Accelerator next year to assist ...Yes, web use is growing, but TV is still setting records
This paper began with a simple question. A station manager wanted to compare the sizes of her station’s web audience with its ...
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