WFYI
will soon make radio history in Indiana.
This fall WFYI will be the hub for the
first statewide daily news/talk program All
IN.
The new program is a major commitment for the primary sponsor, IPB News, an offshoot of Indiana
Public Broadcasting Stations (IPBS),
an organization the represents the state’s public radio and television
stations.
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| Matt Pelsor |
The
host of All IN is Matt Pelsor, a
reporter and producer at WFYI. Pelsor is a native Hoosier.
IPBS
is backing the creation and the initial years of All IN with the support of the Lilly Foundation. Lilly has pledged $1.3 million for the
project. CPB may also be involved. WFYI is the fiduciary and production center
for All IN.
The
show is already on WFYI two days a week. You can hear the beta episodes here.
The
plan moving forward is for All IN is
to air Monday – Friday from 1pm – 2pm on WFYI beginning September 30th.
On that date, All IN will be
available to public stations across the state. Several stations have made
commitments to air All IN. They will
be announced soon.
WFYI
Chief Content Officer Matt Shafer Powell is excited about the new program:
“The show will be rooted
in hearing from and about people of Indiana. It will have a strong sense of
place – what it means to be a Hoosier.”
Shafer-Powell
says All IN is similar in structure
to 1A. It is basically a talk and interview program with three segments.
Because the show is live, quick decisions can be made about topics depending on
the day’s news:
“We’ll have the full resources of IPB News to
help deliver up-to-date information from all over Indiana, and we have a
lifelong Hoosier with keen insights and natural curiosity that we think will
keep listeners fully engaged.”
HAWK MENDENHALL TO RETIRE
AT END OF 2019
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| Hawk Mendenhall |
One
of public radio’s most charismatic and influential programmers and content
creators, Hawk Mendenhall, has announced that he will retire as Associate Director
for Broadcast and Content at KUT and KUTX in Austin.
Mendenhall started working
at KUT in 2001.
During
the past two decades, Mendenhall has quarterbacked several notable initiatives at KUT.
He led the effort to create KUTX, a very popular full-time AAA station. This allowed KUT to switch to a full-time NPR News/Talk schedule.
Mendenhall
had a major impact on KUT’s news capacity. He helped launch Texas Standard, a
statewide daily news magazine.
Debbie Hiott, General Manager of KUT/KUTX praised
Mendenhall in a press release:
“Most important of all, Hawk
has led the way in creating the sound and tone that lets anyone who tunes into
our stations know that they are listening to Austin, Texas – with all of the
fun, storytelling, creativity and weirdness that entails.”
SPRING 2019 NIELSEN AUDIO
RATINGS FOR GRAND RAPIDS, BURLINGTON & TUCSON
Grand
Rapids, known as “GR” to locals, has always been considered a great radio town.
GR is the home of one of the nation’s best Contemporary Christian (CCM)
stations WCSG. There are no satellite delivered hosts on WCSG. The station is aggressively live, local and
involved.
GR
also has a mystery radio station Hometown WGVU-FM. WGVU-FM has under-performed for many years. In a perfect world, they would do what WAER is doing in Syracuse: Cut the crap during the
prime weekday hours and switch to News/Talk.
WAER did this and almost doubled their AQH
share. Michigan Radio’s repeater WVGR is a terrific station, but WGVU-FM can
play a larger role in GR.
Vermont
Public Radio’s News channel is one of the most successful NPR News/Talk
stations in the U.S. However, they seem to have the same “news fatigue” flu that is
being felt elsewhere.
The
Burlington-Plattsburg metro is a geographically large market.
In some ways this
explains why North Country Public Radio (WSLU) from far-north Canton, New York
shows up in the book. NCPR has oodles of repeater and translator signals.
NPR
News/Talk KUAZ AM/FM continues to build listening in Tuscon.
We
added AAA KCXI to the chart even though they haven’t subscribed to the Nielsen
Audio ratings for several years.
KCXI is
one of the best "community" stations around.
They evolved from being a "hippie dippy" Pacifica-ish station and have become a factor in the local music scene and community in general.
Check them out here.
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