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WLIU On The Auction Block

August 10, 2009 by Marty Ronish

A quick note, and Happy Monday! WLIU on Long Island is up for sale or is available for some sort of creative partnership, according to Tom Taylor of Radio-Info. WLIU’s owner, Long Island University is going to stop supporting the NPR-affiliate in October for financial reasons. The station is mostly news and jazz, though it does play some classical, and one of the announcers is Bonnie Grice, who is well known to those of us in the classical world. We’ll keep you posted.

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NPR Music Wins Webby Awards

May 6, 2009 by Marty Ronish

NPR outdid all other media in the Webby Awards from the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences. Three of the NPR’s seven awards went to the new NPR music site: nprmusic.org. They won two awards for Best Music Site, as well as a video entry related to the ever popular All Songs Considered.

Music for Inauguration Day

January 16, 2009 by Marty Ronish

Is your station doing special programming for Inauguration Day and for MLK Day?

WDAV — with General Manager Ben Roe and Program Director Frank Dominguez out there leading the pack, as usual — is adding some live national coverage of inauguration events to its normal streaming programming:

NPR Layoffs: The Trickle Down Effect

January 14, 2009 by Marty Ronish

Much of the news content you hear on public radio is created by independent producers. NPR has always been a primary source of paid work for independents, so the recent layoffs and show cancellations at NPR have seriously impacted a lot of producers who rely on piecework to survive.

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