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6 tips for holding a public media listening tour
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“Don’t try to tack listening onto a performance or ‘normal’ event — make listening the entire point.”
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“Don’t try to tack listening onto a performance or ‘normal’ event — make listening the entire point.”
Podcasts give creators of kids’ shows more freedom, but finding ways to play to radio’s strengths can help them reach more listeners.
The collaboration between Vermont PBS and Vermont Public Radio could evolve into a broader partnership.
An attendee at the Public Radio Program Directors Conference asked whether public media should build its own music-streaming platform similar to Spotify and Pandora.
“You immediately become hyper-aware of how good, or not good, your relationships with people are.”
Plans for the State Department to facilitate interviews fell apart while reporter Nina Keck was on the ground in Jordan.
Vermont Public Radio has started an $8 million expansion to its Colchester facility.
Also: A head audio engineer at Oregon Public Broadcasting takes first prize in an Atari contest.
If any part of the broadcast plant ever merited the label “necessary evil,” a top nominee would be the tower. Expensive to maintain, fraught with potential hazards, bound by an ever-growing web of regulations, unloved by neighbors and often located inconveniently far away, a pubcaster’s tower still serves as the essential link between its program service and its audience. In the early years of public TV and radio — before streaming and podcasting and cable and over-the-top video delivery — pubcasters and their audiences depended completely on the reach of the signals their towers could deliver. When broadcasting was a new and developing communications medium, those towers were much easier to build. As long as they weren’t in an airport flight path, the NIMBY factor was rarely a concern as public TV and FM stations spread across the country from the 1950s into the 1970s.