Tag: WFMT
WFMT Radio Network partners internationally to broadcast Chicago Jazz Festival
Audio from the festival will air in China and Europe.Robinson to leave WFMT, INN elects new board chair, and more comings and goings in ...
Robinson has worked for WFMT for 16 years.WHYY releases new kids-focused podcast, and other news in podcasting
Radiotopia has announced Podquest finalists, and APM is adding a new podcast.WTTW’s licensee anticipates break-even year after budget cuts
The organization cut over $800,000 in expenses in February.Andrew Patner, arts critic for Chicago’s WFMT, dies at 55
Patner was a longtime critic-at-large for WFMT in Chicago and host of the station's show Critical Thinking.Chicago’s WFMT picks up distribution of Carnegie Hall Live
PORTLAND, Ore. — Chicago’s WFMT announced Wednesday a deal with New York–based WQXR to distribute the 2014 season of Carnegie Hall Live. Entering its ...Labor strife at Met could leave hole in classical stations’ schedules
A lockout at the New York opera house would force more than 300 stations to make tough choices.This American Life departure highlights competitive challenge for pubradio satellite system
The expanding portfolio of Public Radio Exchange, the Internet-based distribution platform, has prompted some public radio insiders to question whether NPR’s Public ...Friday roundup: Barzyk unveils pet project; Senate drops patent-reform bill
Plus: Sesame Street and the Great Society, and PRX looks at the technical side of distributing WFMT shows.With help from WFMT, complete archives of Studs Terkel find new life online
The WFMT Radio Network is preparing to release the complete digitized radio archives of Pulitzer Prize–winning oral historian Studs Terkel online by ...Chicago’s WFMT to leave Public Radio Satellite System for PRX
The Chicago network cited rising costs of satellite carriage and a desire to expand internationally as reasons for the move.An upbeat trend for classical pubradio despite audience slide
The funeral dirge has been played many times for the classical music radio format, but after decades of decline on both commercial ...Blogger gets the hots for NPR’ers, Maine pubcaster appears on Family Feud, and more…
Despite the phrase “a face made for radio,” a blogger has started appraising crush-worthy folks in public radio. Babes Of NPR features ...Two more feeds syndicate jazz to public radio
Public radio stations shopping for a plug-and-play jazz stream now have double the options to consider, with two newcomers to the field ...As media finally converge, it’s coming down to this
So what will journalism and, for that matter, all content look like in five years and how will it be delivered? It ...
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