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WFMT Radio Network partners internationally to broadcast Chicago Jazz Festival
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Audio from the festival will air in China and Europe.
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Audio from the festival will air in China and Europe.
Robinson has worked for WFMT for 16 years.
Radiotopia has announced Podquest finalists, and APM is adding a new podcast.
The organization cut over $800,000 in expenses in February.
Patner was a longtime critic-at-large for WFMT in Chicago and host of the station’s show Critical Thinking.
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 fourth season, Carnegie Hall Live kicks off Oct. 1 with a broadcast featuring the Berliner Philharmonker. The show is recorded and hosted by WQXR staffers in partnership with Carnegie Hall and was previously distributed by Minnesota-based American Public Media.
A lockout at the New York opera house would force more than 300 stations to make tough choices.
The expanding portfolio of Public Radio Exchange, the Internet-based distribution platform, has prompted some public radio insiders to question whether NPR’s Public Radio Satellite System can adapt to stiffer competition for business from content producers. The latest program to move to PRX is the widely carried This American Life, whose producers announced May 28 that they would take over distribution of the show and rely on PRX to deliver weekly editions to stations. TAL will split from distributor Public Radio International July 1, ending a 17-year relationship. That announcement came on the heels of a May 7 decision by Chicago’s WFMT to move its 200 weekly hours of music and spoken-word programming to PRX. Other producers have told Steve Robinson, WFMT executive v.p., that they may be interested in following suit.
Plus: Sesame Street and the Great Society, and PRX looks at the technical side of distributing WFMT shows.