Tag: Radio programs
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NPR programming on public radio stations topped its previous audience record by reaching 27.5 million listeners a week during Arbitron’s fall 2008 ...The challenge for public radio: Letting go of our expected future
The fact that the public radio audience is 82 percent white is a problem when the public we aspire to serve is ...Car bomb attack thwarted: ‘We made it out, and we’re alive’
"Being in Baghdad is a narrow escape every day,” says Loren Jenkins, NPR foreign editor, reflecting on the dangers surrounding the network’s ...Show is kaput, but lessons from host flap resound
Bill Lichtenstein, executive producer of pubradio’s The Infinite Mind, got a phone call Nov. 20 from a New York Times reporter with troubling information: the program’s ...Pharma fees to ‘Infinite Mind’ doctor call attention to conflict-of-interest issues
Bill Lichtenstein, executive producer of pubradio’s The Infinite Mind, got a phone call Nov. 20 from a New York Times reporter with troubling information: the program’s ...Hurricane Ike: In storm, stations run on ‘adrenaline and altruism’
As Hurricane Ike swirled toward the Texas coast on Friday, Sept. 12, more than 20 staffers of HoustonPBS and KUHF-FM hunkered down ...50 miles from epicenter
It was purely by chance that a team of veteran NPR journalists was working in Chengdu, the capital of China’s Sichuan province, ...Stern’s latest credit: completing the search for NPR’s future home
In 2012, when NPR moves to its recently acquired headquarters site seven blocks east of its present home, it will have much ...Casual, serious listeners agree on sounds of music: some you love to hear
Most listeners to classical music radio decide whether or not to listen based primarily on the sound and the emotional impact of ...Study’s answers are questionable — and the question aims too low
The Midday Classical Music Testing Project, presented by Public Radio Program Directors at its conference in September [2007], is fundamentally flawed in ...It’s public radio, but with nearly everything different, including the name
On June 4, Chicago Public Radio, news and information WBEZ-FM 91.5, will launch a new radio station by splitting off one of ...Media veteran brings wary revolution to a fortress of tradition
In the 1980s, Peter Gelb produced 25 Metropolitan Opera broadcasts for PBS. Now, as the Met’s general manager, he runs the red-carpeted ...Paths to pubradio stardom: drifting, struggling and on a beeline
Lisa A. Phillips has just started appearing in bookstores to promote her newly published Public Radio Behind the Voices (CDS Books, 334 pages), which ...Good isn’t good enough — our best is ahead
Public radio is hitting home runs, but it can do better. Producer and StoryCorps founder Dave Isay says public radio is entering ...Monkey trial still timely for tour of radio docudrama
Ed Asner takes the role of Bryan, not Darrow, in LATW’s drama based on the Scopes transcript. John de Lancie, at right, ...
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