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Public Radio Exchange Site Launches

Posted by simoniker on from the punk-in-drublic dept.

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."

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  1. Clear Channel Dropped Stern.. by artlu · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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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  2. Huh. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.

  3. Re:I wonder . . . by the_2nd_coming · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I'm sad that they do not use Quicktime. but I am sure you want Ogg or something like that.

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  4. Voting for programming.. by MisanthropicProgram · · Score: 3, Interesting

    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".

  5. Re:I wonder . . . by riptide_dot · · Score: 4, Interesting

    What timing. Wired just had an article on Friday about the RIAA warning that digital radio needs to have DRM built in or it "could lead to unfettered song copying".

    I know it's not exactly the same thing, but what would happen if a garage band uploaded their song to the PRX website and then later signed a contract with the RIAA? What would happen to that song? Would it still be allowed to be played on PRX type sites?

    I imagine that the contract would spell stuff like this out for the band and the RIAA, but what about the PRX that already had a copy of it? How would the contract apply to them?

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  6. NPR or Pacifica? by Panther_Wyvern · · Score: 2, Interesting

    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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