A guest post today from David Srebnik:
There’s PRI, APR, MPR, NPR, CPB, NEA, but have you heard about PRX? The Public Radio Exchange is a relatively new radio program bank where program producers and stations (large and small) meet to upload, download and review programming. You don’t have to work at a radio station to listen – PRX programming is available to all listeners at www.prx.org.
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:
Music critic D. S. Crafts wrote in his year-end review in the Albuquerque Journal:
The biggest news this year on the classical music scene was not in the concert halls, but on the airwaves. After Bob Bishop was laid off from KHFM, many of the on-air personalities resigned in protest, most notably Kip Allen. The station continues to operate, but the essential character that made the station so successful is gone. It is a shame that mere legal ownership (by out-of-state American General Media) allows such insensitive changes to the nature of beauty and companionship, which were at the core of this once-beloved cultural institution.
We have lots of news to fill you in on, and plenty of it is bad, but here’s a wonderful report from American Public Media:
Classical South Florida announced … it will use a $250,000 grant from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to build listener support for its all-classical public radio station in Miami and West Palm Beach…