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Public Radio Exchange Site Launches
TheSync writes "The Public Radio Exchange web site has opened its doors. Radio show producers can sign up to upload programming for peer-review and electronic distribution to public radio stations that like the content. Avid listeners can sign up (for free) to listen and review potential programming. PRX just received a $1.5 million grant from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and they are looking for a summer intern in Boston."
. . . if this will use a DRM laden, proprietary format like NPR does. Am I the only one that sees something wrong with donation and tax-subsidized radio being locked up in these sorts of formats?
One CPU cycle wasted on digital restrictions management is ONE TOO MANY.
appropriately anti-republican and anti-bush!
Clear Channel dropped Howard Stern from my local radio stations. I used to listen every morning while getting ready at home. Maybe we can do live streams of radio from all over the country via this protocol, and I can get through Clear Channel's "indecency measures."
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This post seems a little too late. I work at a public radio station in ohio and have been using PRX for about 5 months or so now. I wonder why it took so long for this to be posted.
The application should contain
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"3) A suggestion on where Site Editor Brendan Greeley should live in Boston. He just moved here and needs an apartment."
Funny
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Please check all that applies to you:
[ ] I speak quietly.
[ ] I listen to NPR regularly.
[ ] Taxes, in general, are a good thing.
[ ] Poor people are helpless and need our money.
[ ] Radio stations are helpless and need our money.
[ ] I am helpless and need somebody's money.
[ ] The person who wrote this application is probably helpless and might need somebody's money.
[ ] Conservatives and other types have lots of money.
[ ] If it's put to a vote, taking other people's money is perfectly fine.
[ ] Being too rich is justification for taking a person's money.
[ ] We should write a proposal, put it to a vote, and take a rich person's money sometime.
[ ] The NEA is a good thing.
[ ] They're pretty successful in taking other people's money and floating it towards stuff we call art.
[ ] What we do is considered an artform.
It just gets longer from there...
Until Slashdot fixes the funny modifier, use insightful or interesting. The poster knows your intentions.
Have you noticed if this has caused some programming not to be aired? In a way, this reviewing could end up censoring some programming if too many people think it shouldn't be aired for whatever reason. Some may think a particular program would be too edgy for their area and vote it as being "bad".
Why, in Soviet Russia, digital rights manage YOU!
Oh wait. It's like that here, too.
I have been working for the company for past half a year and you finally notice us? Damn...!
A bit OT, but are there any indexes or search engines for online radio content?
Seems to me online radio once had a lot of potential, maybe still does, but has gone nowhere in the past few years. I thought it would pick up with every man and his dog carrying an MP3 player, but apparently not.
Dibs!
Ha. Suckers.
Will introduce you to the high-powered, creatively satisfying, poorly compensated world of public radio. May compensate you. May also not compensate you. Will provide you with an immediate list of marginally interesting things to do, a list that will grow exponentially more interesting as we discover how competent you are. Will offer exposure to people who are famous, or at least as famous as you can be if you got famous by being on public radio.
Subsitute /public radio/ with /your job here/
Hey, at least they're honest.
Yes but more importantly can you say fuck, shit or bugger?
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Hard-left radio stations have been using the A-Infos Radio Project and the IMC Radio Project for some time to distribute content. The quality of the productions range from excellent to useless, much like anything else. The productions are almost all politically-oriented, so not having read the article (a grand Slashdot tradition), I don't know if PRX also carries a larger proportion of music and PSAs.
Someday, you're going to die. Get over it.
Avid listeners can sign up (for free) to listen and review potential programming.
I've seen a lot of comparisons to NPR, but from the description in the news bit (I can't load the prx.com website for some reason), it seems to run with a philosophy a bit more comparable to Pacifica - a public radio foundation that is run with active participation from listeners. With the level of listener involvement apparently available, I can't really see the NPR comparison.
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Radio4all and Indymedia have been providing space to upload radio programs for years. And they don't even charge stations to download the shows.
I would estimate the yearly expenses of those projects to be an order of magnititude less than $1.5m. Oneworld Radio also offers upload space for programs and is networked internationally. I would guess their costs are a bit less than $1.5m but in a similar ballpark.
i'm having trouble finding information on whether they allow mostly-music pieces or if the site is geared mostly towards talk.
i guess they're not going for the mixtape-trading aspect.
Finally we have an outlet by which we can mod those crap bands down into the center of the earth, where they will melt and contribute to plate tectonics. I am assuming that anyone who listens will have some kinda e-mail access to the various groups beaming music around, surely they'll want to collect some consumer data.
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> Radio show producers can sign up to upload programming for peer-review
How about letting us peer-review their lobbying efforts? For now, I'm voting with my (lack of) dollars.
...now that you'll have to make your application stand out among 5000 resumes. It's hard enough to get internships these days without them getting slashdotted.
Public Radio International backs a similar website called Transom.org that offers the same kind of idea exchange and exposure to producers of shows such as This American Life.
It's also been around for a while.
the current & archived content of is freely available. you just need to live with the use of their freely-provided client. Don't like the client? well, that might suck. But they're hardly abusing you.
This sounds exactly like what's been happening for ages over at Transom
1. PRX does not distribute music. As you all know, this is a sticky subject and thus conveniently outside of our brief.
2. As befits a publicly-funded site, anyone can listen to pieces and offer a review. We encourage it. Like the great Soviet enterprise we are, we demand it. Submit.
3. It is possible to believe strongly in both public radio and the free market. They are not mutually exclusive, nor is public broadcasting the sole province of liberals.
4. PRX is not Internet radio. We use a web platform to allow nonprofit radio stations to browse for content that they can license, download and broadcast.
5. We're in the midst of rethinking how parts of the site work, particularly the search function and reviews/moderation. We welcome comments. The relationship between the popular vote and the judiciary may or may not be germane to this discussion but hey, it's your Constitution too.
(Translation, for the humor impaired libertarians out there): Have you bean-counting Ayn Rand junkies really become so dehumanized that you think societal funding for the arts is something that should be destroyed? Does anyone really need to remind you that most of what we consider the great works of art of the ages have been produced with what can be called public funding, whether that be from the pockets of the Medicis, the spoils of the Roman Empire, or the coffers of the Catholic Church?
Ah! But that's right, I forgot -- you guys are the morons who'd like to see my whole block burn down because I forgot to grease my local private firefighter, and have the cops check my wife's RFID tags to make sure her account's been paid before they prevent her from getting raped. Life must sure be great in the mechanized profit-center planet you guys dream about living on. Unfortunately, your fantasy land is worth just about as much as any other pipe dream, so save it for your next Mensa meeting and leave the politics to people who can remember that government is designed to serve human beings, not balance sheets.
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> It is possible to believe strongly in both public radio and the free market
Why compete when you can just lobby away your competitors?
Check out News from Neptune -- an hour-long weekly news and commentary show from WEFT 90.1 FM. The News from Neptune site is being worked on (one of the co-host bios has not yet been written) but there are shows up under a Creative Commons license in DRM-free Ogg Vorbis and Speex format (current show in Ogg Vorbis, archive shows in Speex). Download, share, and enjoy. I helped put the show online and I host another show at the same station.
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