Here at the beginning of a new year it’s a bit of a tradition for both individuals and groups to look back on the past year and look forward to the year ahead. Here at Keeping the Public in Public Radio, the contributors and editors don’t want to be left out, so we’re going to [...]
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In Nashville, which has gone through format change at its public radio station, there’s still plenty of heat about what’s heard on the radio. This post from the Tennessee Opinion site about classical music drew a weird mix of comments. First, from the complainant: Yet, it is Nashville and not Sacramento that makes high claims [...]
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The Infinite Dial featured a good post the other day that lead off this way: If you read the news today, what else could you think but “Oh boy”? Facebook doubled in size in one year, from 250 million to half a billion users. Netflix reported 42% year over year subscriber growth, climbing to 15 [...]
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In a recent post, Jerry Del Colliano of Inside Music Media makes some salient points about what radio should be doing, rather than what it is doing in many cases: Not voice tracking. That’s a poor person’s iPod programmed by someone in corporate radio. Yet radio CEOs keep opting for cost cutting measures like voice [...]
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Jeff Boudreau of Boston posted up about the new Facebook site “NPR Ate My Local Public Radio Station” (link on right), where you can commiserate with others whose stations have been assimilated into the borg. He also discussed what has been the hot topic for Jerry Del Colliano’s Inside Music Media blog of late — [...]
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Q: Does the WETS-FM programming change follow a national trend among public radio stations? A. Yes. Although we made the changes for other reasons as well, we know that, for the past decade, public radio stations around the country have been switching to mostly news and public affairs programming on their primary channels. In fact, [...]
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