Big news in the radio world: Bill Kling, the man who started American Public Media and who hired Garrison Keillor, is stepping down in June after 45 years at Minnesota Public Radio. Kling began a small regional station in Minnesota in 1967. From that he has created a media conglomerate that now employs 700 radio professionals broadcasting on 44 stations.
NPR Music on Your iPad
NPR Music has a new app for iPads that delivers a whole boatload of content very slickly. I don’t have an iPad, so I’m just repeating the report by Christopher Breen at Macworld. The app contains a lot of archived material — audio, video, and text — and it also has radio. NPR has underserved classical listeners for years now, but the new app brings oodles of classical radio back under the NPR wing, even if it’s not their own content. … the right side of the screen displays at least one featured station along with a list of … Continue Reading