Public Radio Exchange
From the PRX "Overview" page:
"Most of this country's broadcast media have been stripped of an authentic sense of place, culture, and experience. In this media environment, public radio is one of the public's few trusted sources of information, dialogue, and culture in a rapidly changing international environment and a time of challenge for communities across the nation.
Many within the creative community and station leadership of this maturing broadcast system believe it is time to build on this position of strength by reinvigorating public radio's public service vision and extending its values through new programming models.
Our nation's airwaves need fresh voices and new perspectives that currently have little opportunity to emerge in either the declining commercial broadcast field or the successful but battened down public radio arena. Hundreds of public radio producers working independently and at stations are regularly crafting exceptional pieces, both large and small, that are rich in the ambience of connectedness, relationship, and community."
I'm not exactly sure how this service might be helpful for those of us who share our ideas and stories from our own unique cultures and parts of the country. But it seems to me there is something here worth a look. Wonder if several writers could go together and join as a single "producer". I just learned of this yesterday (from another WVTF essayist) and haven't quite got my mind around it, but here's what you get if you join as a producer:
For Producers You will be able to:
- Open a producer account on the PRX.
- Create a producer profile page with your bio, photo, home page links, etc.
- Upload air-quality versions of your pieces.
- Describe your pieces, including credits, transcripts, promo copy, and more.
- Choose category, keywords, other descriptive tags for each piece.
- Set price points for your pieces within PRX established per-minute range.
- Preview, rate, review, and discuss other pieces.
- View ratings, reviews, and carriage/usage/pageview statistics for your pieces.
- Receive periodic payments for any station downloads/carriage of your pieces.
Anybody have ideas about or experience using PRX?