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:
American Public Media announced Monday that a familiar voice is returning to Classical 24, its service that airs on public radio stations across the country. The full press release follows after the jump.
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.
WDAV-FM in Davidson, N.C., reported recently that listenership for its online audio stream grew by 40 percent in four months. How did that happen? Folks at the station say being listed in the iTunes directory may have played a part.