Tag: Radio programs
Colorado stations help raise $1.1 million in flood relief
Broadcasters across Colorado, including several public media stations, raised $1.1 million Sept. 18 during Colorado Flood Relief, a live fundraiser. Torrential rains caused ...With Jazz Night, WBGO and NPR Music will take fans into venues to listen, watch and chat
NPR and WBGO-FM in Newark, N.J., are teaming up to produce Jazz Night in America, a series of radio broadcasts paired with live, high-quality ...New WYZR brings jazz back to Pittsburgh area
Former staffers of Pittsburgh’s defunct WDUQ-FM have returned to the airwaves with WYZR, a jazz station that signed on Aug. 31 from ...Pacifica’s financial woes drive Free Speech Radio News to shutter production
The financial stranglehold on Pacifica is taking down Free Speech Radio News, a progressive news show that relied on the five-station network for the ...Headlee developing weekly show covering ‘Middle Ground’ between east and west
Celeste Headlee, former co-host of The Takeaway, is launching Middle Ground, a pubradio show concentrating on the vast swath of the country ...PRX teams with Center for Investigative Reporting on Reveal series
Public Radio Exchange is adding a new weekly show to its development slate — Reveal, a joint production with the Center for Investigative ...Out of Africa, Thompkins returns to New Orleans home
After serving a stint as NPR's East Africa correspondent, Gwen Thompkins was ready to head in a different direction. WWNO gave her ...Atlanta jazz station hopes smoother sound catches on
Atlanta’s WCLK-FM, a jazz station licensed to Clark University, aims to double its audience share with a new approach to programming music ...WNYC, Takeaway encourage stations to take it apart
Public radio’s The Takeaway has more than doubled its carriage since cancellation of NPR’s Talk of the Nation, and the show’s producers ...Localism emphasis poses risk
Of all the complex and potentially fateful decisions faced by public radio program directors as they navigate the emergence of multiplatform distribution, ...Public radio is stronger, and better, when stations invest in national shows
Public radio has reached a moment with the feel of the bank scene from It's a Wonderful Life, as station managers worry that listeners ...Flatow moves Science Friday to PRI distribution
Science Friday, the weekly NPR series hosted by Ira Flatow, is pairing with Public Radio International in a new distribution deal to take effect ...With credits gone, NPR’s off-mike staffers get silent treatment
NPR ended the practice Aug. 30 of crediting the off-mike staff behind the scenes of its newsmagazines, citing evidence that the lists ...Don’t mess with the Met: WFIU reverses course on weekend schedule
An outcry from listeners prompted WFIU-FM in Bloomington, Ind., to announce Aug. 13 that it would restore classical programming to its schedule, ...Wits introduces social club in advance of fourth-season launch
American Public Media’s Wits is introducing a “Social Club” for fans as producers prepare to launch the show’s fall season. For $35, fans ...
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