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."

Comments

Clear Channel Dropped Stern..

[artlu]

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."

GroupShares.com

Huh.

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:I wonder . . .

[the_2nd_coming]

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

Re:I wonder . . .

[riptide_dot]

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?