Some odds and ends we didn’t get to last week amid Marty’s posts from the Public Radio Program Directors conference:
:: Minnesota Public Radio has rolled out an iPhone app for listening to its various streams of programming.
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PRPD Classical Radio Wrap-up
After four days at the PRPD I’m trying to process the many voices competing in my head. The big, overarching question we radio types ask ourselves every year is How do we increase our audience?
Throw Open the Doors to Diversity!
Here’s a tease for Monday’s post:
Today some very strong words from Bruce Theriault, Senior VP for Radio of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, who said we need to “throw open the doors” to diversity, to new people with new ideas, to young people who understand converging media formats, and to look around us and realize that the public radio audience is 82% white, while the American population is nearly 50% non-white.