tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26005603843554362782024-03-18T20:10:58.814-07:00SPARK NEWSKen Mills Agency, LLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00792966356989583664noreply@blogger.comBlogger1436125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600560384355436278.post-84868332682245548472020-07-30T00:00:00.000-07:002020-07-30T00:00:00.589-07:00KBCS. SEATTLE FIGHTS FOR ITS LIFE <br />
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A couple of months ago the future looked bleak for KBCS
[<a href="https://www.kbcs.fm/" target="_blank">link]</a>, an old-school community radio station in Seattle. </div>
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In early June it looked
like the station was going to layoff its Program Director and News Director
because the licensee is cutting off its funding for the station. </div>
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The good news is listeners and community organization opened
their hearts and their wallets and saved the jobs and gave the station some
time to keep operating.</div>
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The bad news is that that KBCS’s licensee, Bellevue College, announced that they will be cutting off funding for the station. According
a report in <i>The Watchdog</i>, the campus newspaper, the college provides 19%
of the station’s annual operating budget. Now KBCS desperately needs to plan
for a sustainable future in a dicey time.</div>
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blankets Seattle</span></b></div>
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This will be big task because KBCS is a small player in the
highly competitive Seattle noncommercial radio market. In a place where
everything is an alternative to something else, KBCS has remained stuck in the
1970s.</div>
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KBCS was born during the turbulent times of the late 1960s
and early 1970s. </div>
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The station signed on in 1973 after protesting students at Bellevue
College, a commuter campus that is part of the State of Washington’s Community
and Technical College system, called for a radio station that would present the
news and music of the day.</div>
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Since the 1970s, KBCS remained a quirky community
station with"Pacifica style" programming politics and engagement.</div>
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According to Nielsen, KBCS had a 0.2 AQH share and 33,100 estimated weekly listeners in January 2019, the last "book" where KBCS appeared.</div>
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In early July, KBCS began a Sustainability Campaign with the
goal of adding 1,000 new members by July 1, 2021. Cash support from Bellevue is
scheduled to end on June 30, 2021.</div>
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According to the station’s audited financial report for 2019
[<a href="https://www.kbcs.fm/about/finances-and-employment/" target="_blank">link</a>], KBCS received $1.3 million in cash and in-kind support. </div>
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Donations from members and other listeners was approximately $580,000. Underwriters provided about $149,000.
CPB added $114,000. The rest of the revenue came from Bellevue College and
other sources.</div>
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In January 2018 <i>Spark News</i> published a “case study” of KBCS <a href="http://acrnewsfeed.blogspot.com/2018/01/case-study-kbcs-bellevue-washington.html" target="_blank">[lin</a>k].<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When we checked KBCS’s website when we were
preparing this post, we found that little had changed since 2018.</div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-size: 11.0pt;">Slide from our 2018 Case Study</span></b></div>
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KBCS continues to program “Political Talk” and eclectic
music. Weekly mornings are filled with the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Thom
Hartmann Show</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Democracy Now</i>. </div>
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On the weekends KBCS airs narrow-appeal music and
ethnic programs such as tunes from Hawaii, Portugal and Brazil.</div>
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You could describe KBCS as “radio for old hippies” because
that reflects the mindset of the station’s hosts and listeners. This approach was working when Bellevue paid bills. Now KBCS needs to be relevant to wider group of people.</div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We
think it is time to let our readers have their say about news and issues we
have posted recently. We are looking at platforms for <i>Spark News </i>that offer
better reader engagement. Please send us your recommendations to us at <a href="mailto:publicradio@hotmail.com">publicradio@hotmail.com</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Thank you, Ken.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">• Regarding our coverage
of David Folkenflick’s article about “the collapse of ratings for NPR
programs.”</span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>White we agreed [<a href="http://acrnewsfeed.blogspot.com/2020/07/david-folkenflik-gets-it-partially.html" target="_blank">link</a>] with most of Folkenflick’s
observations, we said his use of the word “collapse” was unfortunate because it
implied that the “sky was falling” for NPR member stations on the broadcast
platform.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Mark
Vogelzang, President and CEO of Maine Public Broadcasting sent this comment:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Ken, thanks for the
added perspective. Folkenflick himself may not have used the word ‘collapse’ in
the story. More likely a digital headline writer.”</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">And,
we received this comment from the manager of a NPR member station on the west
coast who asked us not to use his/her name:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Perhaps Folkenflick
is not aware of the fact that the ratings he was quoting are for stations that
air NPR programs, not NPR itself. To me, this is further evidence that NPR is bypassing
the needs of stations to fund their digital ventures.”</span></i></div>
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Public Radio’s Indie 102.5 going on a station in Colorado Springs</span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> [<a href="http://acrnewsfeed.blogspot.com/2020/04/indie-1023-moves-into-coloradio-springs.html" target="_blank">link</a>] an anonymous
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“The new Indie 102.3
is more Top 40 now: more repetition</span></i><span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: 14.0pt;">, more pandering to pedestrian common
denominators.</span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">”</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">KEN SAYS</span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">: Repetition of songs
that people like is a time-tested programming technique that works. What makes
stations like I<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">ndie 102.5</i> different
from commercial Top 40 stations is public radio’s emphasis on curating, contextual
presentation and engagement with listeners and the community. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Indie 102.5’s </i>repeater station in The
Springs, debuted in the Spring Nielsen ratings and listeners there seem to like
having a new music option.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">• Our report [<a href="http://acrnewsfeed.blogspot.com/2020/07/revealed-public-broadcasters-who.html" target="_blank">link</a>]
detailing which noncommercial broadcasters who have received Paycheck
Protection Program (PPP) loans</span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> brought this question for an anonymous reader:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Supposedly Pacifica
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">KEN SAYS:</span></b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> No, Pacifica and/or its
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><b>•
Our post about Cumulus Media pulling the plug on the Westwood One news service</b>
[<a href="http://acrnewsfeed.blogspot.com/2020/07/cumulus-pulls-plug-on-westwood-one.html" target="_blank">lin</a>k] brought this comment from R. Alan Clark, a former Classical music
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "american typewriter"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Immediate news comes
to me on my phone apps now. CBS NEWS, NBC NEWS, and others all with video. No
need to wait for scheduled radio newscasts.”</span></i></div>
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way. But we like news on radio also. If radio in general, and public radio in
particularly, stops investing in news programming, they will eventually become
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Chicago
media reporter, Robert Feder, was the first news source to report that Windows
to the World Communications, the licensee of WFMT-FM and WTTW-TV, has layed off
four staff members because of the economic impact of the Covid pandemic.</span></div>
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his Monday blog post [<a href="https://www.robertfeder.com/2020/07/24/four-valued-colleagues-cut-layoffs-wttw-wfmt/?utm_source=new%20post%20alert&utm_medium=email&utm_content=main%20content&utm_campaign=%2F2020%2F07%2F24%2Ffour-valued-colleagues-cut-layoffs-wttw-wfmt%2F" target="_blank">link</a>], Feder said in addition to the full-time staff cuts, seven
staffers had their weekly schedules reduced by eight hours, and company vice
presidents and other executives were ordered to take one-week furloughs before
the end of the year,</span></div>
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said he received a memo from an internal source that gave the details of the changes. No public announcement has
been made by WTTW or WFMT but a company spokeswoman confirmed the changes, but
had no further comments.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In the memo, Sandra Cordova Micek, the President and CEO of Windows to
the World Communications, thanked the terminated employees for their
contributions and service to WTTW and WFMT:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Those affected by these
job eliminations will be eligible for severance as well as unemployment
benefits. We will continue to manage the business dynamically and monitor
economic and other factors. As always, we will continue to prioritize essential
projects and expenses and plan for financial stability.”</span></i></div>
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JOHNNY APPLE SEED OF COMMUNITY RADIO”</i> HAS DIED AT THE AGE OF 88</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Lorenzo
Milan, a man who had an enormous impact on noncommercial radio in the U.S., passed
away in in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico on July 21<sup>st</sup>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Paul
Riismanderl posted a loving tribute to Milam on <i>Radio Survivor</i> [<a href="https://www.radiosurvivor.com/2020/07/23/r-i-p-radio-trailblazer-lorenzo-milam/" target="_blank">link</a>] in which he said:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“It’s hard to imagine a
single person who had greater influence on US community radio. My favorite
aspect of his legacy is playfulness, and a willingness to experiment.”</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“[He] reminds us that the
enterprise should also be fun, and that we should also take the opportunity to
thumb our noses at the powerful.”</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Milam
is perhaps best known for his self-published handbook <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sex and Broadcasting</i>, published in the 1970s. The handbook was used
by dozens of people to establish nonprofit community radio stations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He
was a co-founder of KRAB-FM in Seattle in 1961, thought to be the first
non-Pacifica community station in the nation. Milan also co-founded or
consulted KBOO in Portland, Oregon, KCHU in Dallas, KDNA in St. Louis, KUSP in
Santa Cruz and WYEP in Pittsburgh.</span></div>
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Milam’s work and writings had a major impact on community and public radio, he did
not think like a businessperson or an effective radio programmer. He remained a
dreamer and prankster after he left radio in the early 1980s.</span></div>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style>Ken Mills Agency, LLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00792966356989583664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600560384355436278.post-19609922562935767082020-07-27T00:00:00.000-07:002020-07-27T00:00:09.814-07:00GIOVANNONI: “A MOST TROUBLING SIGNAL IS BEING SENT BY THE CORE”
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">David
Giovannonl</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">David
Giovannonl, one of the most influential people in the formative years of public
radio, reappeared last week with an op-ed in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Current </i>[<a href="https://current.org/2020/07/giovannoni-listening-dynamics-of-core-npr-news-listeners-are-shifting-in-the-wrong-direction/" target="_blank">link</a>} about changes in listening to NPR News stations
since the on-set of the Covid-19 pandemic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Giovannoni’s
message was both troubling and instructive: People who are in public radio's core and fringe
cohorts are listening less to NPR News stations than they were prior to the
disruption caused by the virus. Plus, listening by fringe listeners declined
substantially after the pandemic hit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">(Explainer:
“Core” listeners are people who listen more to one station than any other –
their first choice, so to speak. “Fringe” includes all other listeners than the
core.)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">According
to Giovannoni, the rapid change was due, in part, to people working from home
instead of commuting to jobs. When people are not in vehicles they tend to
listen less to traditional radio.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
changes in lifestyles after the pandemic took hold in mid March, caused 43% of
fringe listeners of NPR News stations to vanish. This is important because
fringe listeners are a major portion of the “reach” of NPR and the gateway for
listeners to become members.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Giovannonl
based his analysis on Nielsen PPM data from March, April May and June for 91
full or part-time NPR News/Talk stations in 45 markets. In his op-ed, he said
there is no guarantee that the missing listeners will come back if or when the
Covid-19 pandemic eases:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Without daily
opportunities to listen in cars and offices, more than half of NPR News
stations’ away-from-home tune-ins disappeared, taking with them 15 million
out-of-home listener-hours.”</span></i></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“We might have expected
listeners to pick up the slack at home. Some did, but their aggregate increase
of only 2 million at-home listener-hours left NPR News stations about 13
million listener-hours short — a loss of a quarter of all listening to NPR News
stations.</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Giovannonl
is also concerned that that the size of NPR News stations core audience is not
growing like it had been for most of the past four years.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Spark News</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> is seeing the same
trends. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We published the chart on the right earlier in July showing the decline
in estimated weekly listeners (“cume”) by 15 of the most influential NPR
News/Talk stations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We
compared the number of estimated weekly listeners in the February Nielsen PPM
ratings with Nielsen data from June. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">All 15 stations had fewer weekly listeners
in June. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Estimated weekly listeners for the 15 stations combined dropped about
almost 20% during the February to June period.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Of
course, almost all radio stations – noncom or commercial – have lost weekly
cume listeners because of changes caused by the pandemic. If the pandemic
continues indefinitely, which is a real possibility, traditional broadcasters
will need to make hard choices such as whether to stay in business.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Giovannoni
summed up his Current op-ed with this cautionary remark:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“The headlines three
months into the pandemic aren’t encouraging. The Core’s reliance on NPR News
stations is still strong but weakening. It is unknown whether these essential
listeners find NPR News stations less listenable, less compelling or less
relevant.””</span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt;">DAVID GIOVANNONI TODAY</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It
is good to see David Giovannoni back in action.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Now he is reprising his “speak truth to power” role when it is really
needed.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Giovannoni
retired from public radio research in 2006. He still has the title of President
of AudiGraphics Inc., the research company he founded in the late 1970s.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He
has followed his passion for historic audio recordings. He is a partner in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">First Sounds</i> <a href="http://www.firstsounds.org/" target="_blank">[link</a>], a nonprofit
organization with a mission to seek out the world’s oldest sound recordings –
wherever they are.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Giovannoni
has assembled what is said to be the world’s most significant collection of
early cylinders and disc records, which he makes available to historians.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He
has been nominated for several Grammy Awards for Best Historical
Documentary.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a private collector
Giovannoni has curated two collections that have been inducted onto the </span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">National Recording Registry</span></a><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> by the Librarian of
Congress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">You
can read more about his work <a href="http://www.dgio.net/press.asp" target="_blank"><b>here</b></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We
found a YouTube video on the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">First Sounds</i>
website narrated by Giovannoni that describes his work with early sound
recordings.</span></div>
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(7-22) that they have reached agreement to buy <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Serial Productions</i>, producers of the hit podcast <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Serial.</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">According to a report in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Times</i> [<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/22/business/media/new-york-times-serial.html" target="_blank">link],</a> the coSt was
approximately $25 million.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In
many ways the deal is a merger. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Times</i>
will broaden its digital footprint and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Serial Productions</i> will have access to financial backing they need to expand their portfolio. </span></div>
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of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Serial</i> and Sarah Koenig, the host
of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Serial</i>, formed <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Serial Productions</i>, a for-profit
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">When
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Serial </i>was launched it was heavily
promoted on weekly episodes of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">TAL</i>. At
the time several station managers and programmers complained that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">TAL</i> was using their airtime to promote a
private business.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Abby
Goldstein, CEO and Executive Director of PRPD and Terry Gildea, Executive Director
of PMJA announced that registration is now open for </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let’s Go Live!</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">, a four-day
collaborative public media conference that is scheduled for Monday, September
21 through Thursday, September 24, 2020.The event will happen online.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">To
virtually attend </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let’s Go Live!</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> Register <a href="https://prpd.org/news/2020/07/lets-go-livhttps://prpd.org/news/2020/07/lets-go-live" target="_blank"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">here</b></a>. </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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The cost for non-members is $200 per person. Group rates are Group rates are
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Goldstein
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When people register, they will be asked to set up a profile on Attendify, the
platform for the virtual event. The profile can be use to interact with other
attendees prior to and during the online conference.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">KEN SAYS: </span></b><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We encourage people to register early for </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let’s Go Live!</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>.According
to recent research by online event vendors, about one-third of people who
attend virtual conferences like </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Let’s Go Live!</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">register only 72-hours or
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this event. As with other ventures during our Covid Era, some new ideas work and others
fail. Consider your early registration to be a sign of your support for these two
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{page:WordSection1;}</style>Ken Mills Agency, LLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00792966356989583664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600560384355436278.post-65396558623495939742020-07-23T00:00:00.000-07:002020-07-23T00:00:02.468-07:00MORE COVID-19 CHANGES: DIGITAL NOW LEADS TRADITIONAL MEDIA • CLASSICAL MUSIC STATION RATINGS FOR 10 DIARY MARKETS
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">According
to Edison Research’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Share of Ear</i>
study for the second quarter of 2020, time spent listening to audio on digital devices
is now larger than time spent listening to audio on traditional devices. </span></div>
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device listening grew from 45% in the January – March 2020 quarter to 53% in
the April – June quarter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Laura
Ivey, Edison’s Director of Research, said it was first time digital surpassed non-digital
sources since <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Share of Ear</i> began in
2014. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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lifestyle changes caused by the pandemic were the reason for the change:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Digital surpassing
non-digital was almost inevitable, according to the slow trend we saw in Share
of Ear. It appears that these disruptions may have just accelerated the
process. We will have to wait to see if the numbers revert more closely to what
they were before the disruptions.”</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Traditional,
non-digital devices include AM and FM radios, SiriusXM receivers. Turntables,
CD players, and TV-delivered music channels.</span></div>
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now turns to the 2020 PRPD/Jacobs Media Public Radio Tech Survey (PRTS 2020) to
see if the impact of the pandemic changed the audio consumption behavior of
core public radio listeners.</span></div>
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the field on Monday [7-20], so that is why you see those ominous question marks
for the new survey. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It appears
this trend will continue – if not accelerate when this year's results [are
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percentage of digital listening has grown in every PRTS since 2013. In the 2019
PRTS, 31% of the respondents said that in a typical week, they listen to public
radio content on digital devices and platforms such as computers, mobile
devices, NPR apps, podcasts and smart speakers.</span></div>
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Live!</i> virtual conference September 21 -24.</span></div>
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MARKETS ARE LISTENING TO MORE CLASSICAL MUSIC RADIO THAN BEFORE THE PANDEMIC </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">According
to Nielsen Audio, the average-quarter-hour (AQH) shares for nine full-time
Classical music stations in 10 markets were larger in June 2020 than during the
most recent pre-Covid period.</span></div>
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data is from markets where Nielsen uses Diary methodology. In some Diary
markets, Nielsen provides monthly ratings. Listening in other Diary markets is
reported twice per year in the spring and fall.</span></div>
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for Diary markets are released by Nielsen on weekdays until mid-August. The numbers in the
chart on the left are from the first three batches of data released by Nielsen.</span></div>
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seven of the 10 markets, Classical music stations increased their AQH share in
June 2020 compared the most recent pre-Covid survey period. Two stations had a
smaller AQH share in June 2020.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The AQH
share for one station, KWTU in Tulsa, was the same.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">A
friend in the Bay Area recently gave us a tip about a new news and information:
KSFP-LP, based in San Francisco. KSFP [<a href="https://sfpublicpress.org/ksfp/" target="_blank">lin</a>k] is part of San Francisco Public
Press (SFPP), a non-profit organization that also publishes a printed newspaper
and hosts a website covering local news.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">KSFP-LP
signed on in late 2019, but it faces many obstacles. First, they broadcast only
12 hours per day because they share time with another station, KXSF-LP. The FCC
ordered the licensees of the two stations to share 102.5 FM.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Theoretical
KSFP Coverage Area</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">KSFP
operates daily 4am to 10am and 4pm to 10pm. KXSP [<a href="https://kxsf.fm/" target="_blank">link</a>] operates during the
other 12 hours. Both stations transmit at a power of two (2) watts and provide
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Another
obstacle for KSFP is a lack of resources. According to SFPP’s IRS 990 from 2017,
annual revenue for the entire operation is only $260,000. Most of that amount
was used to pay salaries and office expenses.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">KSFP
airs PRX’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Remix</i> program stream
during most of its broadcast hours. The station’s major local program is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Civic</i>, a mixture of call-in talk and
group discussions. Though Civic is well intentioned, it sounds like a cable TV
public access channel – tedious and boring.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We give </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">San Francisco Public
Press high marks for their </span></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span>ingenuity,
vision and sense of service but KSFP-LP needs radio/audio professionals or it will not
achieve its goals.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt;">VERMONT PUBLIC RADIO NEWS
& WBHM, BIRMINGHAM, INCREASE AQH SHARES IN SPRING NIELSEN DIARY RATINGS</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
results of Nielsen Audio’s Diary market ratings are now trickling in. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The chart
on the right shows the results for 11 NPR News stations in ten markets compared
to their most recent pre-Covid rating period. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The June “book” was conducted
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far, the highest performing NPR News stations are Vermont Public Radio News and
WBHM, Birmingham. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Four of the 11 stations (36%) increased their AQH share. Six
stations (55%) had decreases in AQH share. One station, WWNO in New Orleans,
had a 3.6 AQH share in June and February 2020.</span></div>
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in markets where Nielsen uses Diary methodology are following the same patterns
in markets using PPM methodology. In general, news stations are up and music
stations are a mixed bag. But, there are plenty of exceptions.</span></div>
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Research promised that their <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New-Music
Seekers </i>survey would provide never-before-seen data about the most active
music fans. Rather than relying on consumption metrics, Edison let the participants
in the survey define “music seekers” for themselves.</span></div>
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of the sample said new music is important to them. 43% said new music is
“somewhat important” to them. 33% said new music was “not important to them at
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Research conducted online interviews with 3,159 online respondents. The
interviews were conducted in January and February 2020, before the on-set of
the Covid-19 pandemic. The study is part of Edison’s Infinite Dial research
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behavior and perceptions of the 24% - the people who said new music is
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results of the study were announced during a webinar last week hosted by
Nicole Beniamini, VP of Research at Edison. You can download a free copy
of the report <a href="https://www.edisonresearch.com/new-music-seekers-an-infinite-dial-report/" target="_blank"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">here</i></b></a>.</span></div>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style>Ken Mills Agency, LLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00792966356989583664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600560384355436278.post-53913707721071159252020-07-20T00:00:00.000-07:002020-07-20T00:00:25.309-07:00HUGO MORALES CHOSEN FOR NEA NATIONAL HERITAGE FELLOWSHIP
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Hugo
Morales, the co-founder and executive director of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Radio Bilingüe</i>, was honored in late May with a National Heritage
Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) at its annual conference.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Morales
is one of nine recipients of the Fellowship this year. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He joins an impressive list
of honorees that includes bluesman B.B. King, gospel soul singer Mavis Staples
and William Bell, the first male solo act signed to Stax Records.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Each
year the Heritage Fellowships highlight the distinct living traditions of
communities around the U.S. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The judges look for leaders that instill a sense of
pride, beauty, and cultural continuity through their art and community service.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Morales
was honored for his work establishing and nurturing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Radio Bilingüe</i> and giving voice to the wide cross section of
traditional cultures present in California’s San Joaquin Valley.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Over
the 40 years since Morales created <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Radio
Bilingüe</i>, he has received many honors including a MacArthur Foundation
Fellowship, the Edward R. Murrow Award and the Lannan Foundation’s Cultural
Freedom prize. Former California Jerry Brown appointed Morales to the
California State University Board of Trustees in 2012.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">After
winning the Heritage Fellowship, Morales told the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fresno Bee</i> [<a href="https://www.fresnobee.com/entertainment/ent-columns-blogs/fresno-beehive/article243764087.html#storylink=cpy" target="_blank">link</a>]:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Chicano, Tejano,
Mexicano, Mixteco, Latino. All these are living cultures. And the music follows
with it. We [are] trusted messengers reaching people that cannot be reached in
person.”</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Today
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Radio Bilingüe</i> [<a href="ttp://radiobilingue.org/en/" target="_blank">link</a>], owns broadcast
stations and provides the only Spanish-language national news and information service
for public broadcasting. Their programming is heard on more than 100
noncommercial stations.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Radio Bilingüe</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> provides affiliates
programs such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Linea Abierta</i>, a daily
national talk show, and </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://radiobilingue.org/en/rb-programas/edicion-semanaria/"><span style="color: windowtext; font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Edición Semanaria</span></a></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">, a national Spanish
language weekly news magazine.</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Radio Bilingüe </i>also offers a national
satellite programming service. It brings affiliates a diverse selection of
music in Spanish, English and Mixteco. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">According
to the organization’s most recent IRS 990 for fiscal year 2018 (October 1, 2017
– September 30, 2018), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Radio Bilingüe</i>
claimed total revenue of $2.2 million. Primary funding has come from the Ford
Foundation, The David and Lucille Packard Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation
and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">KSJV,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Radio Bilingüe’s </i>flagship station in
Fresno, is in a competitive ratings battle with the United Farm Worker’s KUFW,
a noncommercial music station that plays Mexican pop tunes. In Fall 2018, the
most recent Nielsen Audio survey available, KSJV had an AQH share of 0.9 and
23,400 estimated weekly listeners. In the same survey, KUFW had an AQH share of
0.3 and 58,300 estimated weekly listeners.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt;">REMINDER: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">LET’S GO LIVE!</i> REGISTRATION OPENS THIS
THURSDAY </span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Let’s Go Live!</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">, the four-day collaborative
public media summit scheduled for Monday, September 21 through Thursday,
September 24, 2020, has announced that registration will open this week on
Thursday, July 24.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Members
of the Public Radio Program Directors association (PRPD) and the Public Media
Journalist Association (PMJA) are producing the online event. Both
organizations cancelled their in-person annual conferences due to Covid-19
safety concerns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Abby
Goldstein, CEO and Executive Director of PRPD said in the press release:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Plans are in place for
more than 25 sessions showcasing a variety of industry experts, as well as fun and
engaging surprises throughout the course of the event. In a year when most of
our industry will go without professional development and travel opportunities,
Let's Go Live! Will give us an affordable chance to convene and learn.”</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;">The cost of attending <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Let's Go Live!</i> Is very reasonable. Registration for PRPD and PMJA
members is $150 per individual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Group
rates are also available. The cost for non-members is $200 per</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> person. Registration is scheduled to begin on July 24th.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "MS 明朝"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast;"></span>
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register and get more information about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Let's
Go Live!</i> go to <a href="https://prpd.org/news/2020/07/lets-go-liv">https://prpd.org/news/2020/07/lets-go-liv</a><a href="https://prpd.org/news/2020/07/lets-go-liv" target="_blank">https://prpd.org/news/2020/07/lets-go-liv</a>e.</span></div>
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{page:WordSection1;}</style>Ken Mills Agency, LLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00792966356989583664noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600560384355436278.post-69466410561634999322020-07-17T00:00:00.000-07:002020-07-17T07:04:45.317-07:00DAVID FOLKENFLIK GETS IT PARTIALLY RIGHT IN HIS STORY ABOUT NPR’S “RATINGS COLLAPSE”<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><b><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">David Folkenflik</span></b></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">If
you haven’t read or heard David Folkenflik’s article about the collapse in ratings for
NPR’s signature programs, you should check it out <a href="https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/07/15/891404076/npr-radio-ratings-collapse-as-pandemic-kills-listeners-commutes" target="_blank">[link],</a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Folkenflik
posted it late Wednesday (7-15) after a staff meeting at NPR that presented new
information about audience changes since the on-set of the Covid pandemic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Folkenflik
is NPR’s media correspondent and the co-host and editor of the daily news
program <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">On Point</i>. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In his article – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">NPR’s Radio Ratings Collapse As Pandemic
Ends Listeners' Commutes</i> – he reveals new information about NPR’s investment
in content for digital platforms.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">For
instance, have you heard that, according NPR CEO John Lansing, NPR is on track
to make more money from underwriting and commercials in podcasts than the money
paid by conventional stations for NPR programs such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Morning Edition</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">All Things
Considered</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Wait, Wait</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">It
is a ‘sea change” in public broadcasting because the system was built by
station carriage fees that provide much of the funding for NPR. More then half
of the people on NPR’s Board of Directors operate “conventional stations.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In other words, this is the “new normal’
clashing with the old systems that were designed decades ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Folkenflik
quotes NPR CEO John Lansing saying the ratings declines are not a reflection of NPR’s
content:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">"The first thing
that I see is a situation driven by habits of consumers that are not related to
the content of our programs. It's almost entirely related to the disruption
caused by the pandemic to commuting patterns both in the morning and the
evenings. [Most] of us, including me, are working from home." </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">During
the staff meeting earlier this week, NPR’s Senior Director of
Audience Insights, Lori Kaplan said that the changes reflect trends that were already happening.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The difference now in the Covid era have sped things up:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">"We anticipated
these changes. This kind of change was going to take place over the next
decade. But the pandemic has shown us what our future is now. We're not going
back to the same levels of listening that we've experienced in the past on
broadcast." </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Kaplan
quoted newly commissioned research, based Nielsen PPM ratings, that NPR’s signature program have
fallen 25% compared to a similar time in 2019.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 16.0pt;">PUTTING “THE COLLAPSE” IN
PERSPECTIVE</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Kaplan’s
data identifies the same trends that we wrote about earlier this week. There is
no doubt that estimated weekly listeners have fallen since the on-set of the
pandemic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">On
the right is our chart showing the declines in weekly listeners between
February and June for 15 influential NPR News/Talk stations. The estimated
weekly listeners dropped for all 15 stations. Overall, the weekly listeners for
the 15 stations were down 19.8%.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">But
is this change a collapse? We don’t think so.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">There
are still are lots of people listening to NPR on NPR member stations. Compared
to public radio’s Classical music stations, News stations are doing better at
keeping their cume in the Covid era.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">So,
is the glass half empty or half full? </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Folkenflik’s
use of the word “collapse” is unfortunate and too simplistic. His article is
now being quoted by various news sources as proof that NPR is on the rocks.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Of
course you have heard of Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the program
established by Congress in March to support small businesses during the <a href="https://www.vox.com/coronavirus-covid19"><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Covid-19 pandemic</span></a>.</span></div>
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program has distributed $521 billion intended to be used for payroll, mortgage interest,
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money allocated for PPP ran out quickly, in part, because the loans may be forgivable
in certain situations. The SBA has says there will no new loans in the
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organizations filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit in mid-May.
That action led to disclosure of some of the people and entities that received
the money.</span></div>
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friends at <i>Inside Radio</i> [<a href="http://www.insideradio.com/free/which-public-broadcasters-received-federal-aid-from-sba-/" target="_blank">link</a>] did some digging and published the names and
amounts of the PPP loans that broadcasters received. Two commercial radio
corporations received big bucks. Emmis Communications got $4.753 million and
Spanish Broadcasting System got $6.478 million. </span></div>
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broadcasters also received loans. Today we have the list of public radio and
television organizations that received PPP loans. Specific numbers weren’t
provided. Instead, the amounts are provided in “ranges that leave a lot of
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Classical Music
Rising (“CMR”) was an initiative by the </span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Station
Resource Group and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation </span></b></div>
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PPM ratings for 15 influential full-time Classical music stations and compared
them to data from February 2020. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The comparison shows that
Classical stations will have to work hard to win back listeners.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Only
5 of the 15 stations we examined had a larger AQH share in June than they had
in February, the last “pre-Covid” book. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
“missing cume” should concern station programmers and managers because it means
that Classical stations are reaching far fewer new listeners than they were
before the on-set of the pandemic.</span></div>
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chart on the right looks at the AQH shares for the 15 stations. Only five
stations , KING in Seattle, KQAC in Portland, KUSC in LA, WDAV in Charlotte and
WQXR in New York, had larger AQH shares in June than they had in February.</span></div>
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in the Twin Cities had the largest AQH share decline, 0.9. WJBC in Baltimore
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percentage based on the size of “lake of listeners” at a given point in time.
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
loss of estimated weekly listeners is a trend you should watch.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">As
you can see on the second chart on the right, all 15 Classical music stations we
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63% loss of estimated listeners shows that many people stopped listening to the
station after the on-set of the pandemic </span></div>
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stations thst had the biggest losses in weekly listeners included KDFC (down
47%), KSJN (down 36%) and KBAQ (down 40%).</span></div>
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‘missing cume” are real people who found other options to hear Classical music.
Will they come back to radio? No one knows.</span></div>
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THE PEOPLE WORKING FROM HOME OFTEN TEND TO SLEEP-IN</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Edison
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addendum study that found people who are working from home due to Cpvid-19<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>pandemic are starting their days later in the
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Edison
found that half of the survey sample, age 13 or older, now begin their audio day
at 8:30am. Before the on-set of the pandemic, it was 7:15am.</span></div>
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we covered WCBE in October 2019 [<a href="http://acrnewsfeed.blogspot.com/2019/10/wally-smith-crafts-sweet-deal-with-wnet_25.html" target="_blank">link</a>], it looked like the licensee was looking
for a way to get out of the public radio business. </span></div>
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that time, the Columbus City School District was reportedly talking with Ohio
State University about crafting a Public Service Operating Agreement (PSOA) to
operate WCBE.</span></div>
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to a report in <i>The Columbus Dispatch</i> [l<a href="https://www.dispatch.com/news/20200706/columbus-city-schools-" target="_blank">ink</a>], Scott Varner, the person who the
District chose to oversee WCBE, told the District’s it is now time to begin
“re-imagining the radiWCBE’s future, including how WCBE can best fit with the District’s
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“This
yearlong stabilization effort that we undertook truly revealed the extent of
some of the dysfunction at the station. We are still finding unplanned or
unaccounted for expenses.” </span></div>
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situation caused by former WCBE General Manager Dan Mushalko who hid around
$900,000 of past due invoices, mainly from NPR, for reasons that are still
unknown. Mushalko didn’t personally take any money that belonged to
station. </span></div>
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pleaded guilty in October 2019 to a felony change of destroying station
documents. In his plea, he admits he falsified invoices to conceal the
station's true debt. </span></div>
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to the report in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Dispatc</i>h, the
District spent </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">more
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this year, Podtrac put its Top 20 podcasts rankings behind the pay-wall. But
now they have changed their minds. Podtrac just released a Top 20 list for June
2020 (on the left).</span></div>
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one podcast in the U.S. – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Joe Rogan
Experience</i> – is not listed on Podtsc's Top 20 chart.</span></div>
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the end of August there will be one less provider of news to commercial radio
stations in the U.S.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Last
Thursday (7/9), Cumulus Media announced that their subsidiary, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Westwood One News</i> (“<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">WWON</i>”) will cease operations on August 30, 2020, at 11:40am ET. </span></div>
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means that over 900 commercial radio stations will be without a source for
national and international news. This is important for public radio because local
NPR News stations will be the only radio source for this type of news in the
market.</span>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">WWON </span></i><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">provided hourly
newscasts, audio clips and features. The owner, Cumulus, said the change was made because of “extraordinary circumstances” related to the
Covid-19 pandemic. Now it appears the decision to zap of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">WWON</i> was to please to Cumulus shareholders.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">On
Friday (7/10), the day after the announcement, the price of Cumulus stock was
up 12.3%. According to a report by the publication Radio Ink, Cumulus
CEO Mary Berner told employees and affiliates in a memo “Please <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">accept this letter as official notification
of the cancellation of this service.”</i></span></div>
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News/Talk station in smaller and medium sized markets should be aware that the
closing of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">WWON</i> might be an
opportunity to increase their listener base.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">WWON</i> covered some national and
international news. Now the affiliates might be diffical finding a replacement. \.</span></div>
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radio news business is vastly different in 2020 than it was in 1974 when NPR began.
At that time NPR News was considered an alternative to news coverage on the big
four commercial radio networks, ABC, CBS, ABC and Mutual. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Only ABC and CBS
remain in the radio news business today. Both give their current affiliates exclusivity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Changing
listener tastes, the presence of more news sources and format focusing led to a
decrease in the number of commercial stations air news. But, by far, the
biggest reason for the decline of commercial radio news was the hyper-consolidation
of station ownership.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
1996 Telecom Act lifted the limits on the number of stations that one owner
could own nationally and within a local market. Group owners such as Clear
Channel (now iHeartRadio) acquired hundreds if stations. The cost of radio
licenses had soared to historic highs powered by easy-to-get high-interest loans.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">When
the euphoria faded, big group owners made programming and staffing changes to pay
the bills and pay back the loans. Entire newsrooms were axed, budgets were cut and host-based talk
shows, such as Rush, replaced actual news; because it was cheaper to operate.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Around
the same time, NPR made a series of moves to upgrade their programming and
become a full-time news provider. More and more NPR stations focused their
formats, following the lead of stations such as KQED, WBUR and WUWM.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Since
then, public radio has made significant investments in news. CPB has helped by supporting initiatives to build </span><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">the infrastructure that makes possible investigative reporting, regional scope
and coverage of essential issues</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In 2020 there are only a handful of commercial news/talk stations that are taken seriously.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 16.0pt;">THE THREE-WAY NEWS BATTLE
IN OUR NATION’S CAPITAL </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">WTOP is perhaps
the best and most successful commercial radio news station in the nation.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">As
you can see in the chart on the right, WTOP competes with de
facto NPR News flagship WAMU and WMAL </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">WMAL owned by Cumulus Media. The schedule is mainly right-wing talk hosts such as Rush, Mark Levin and Ben Shapiro. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">WMAL also has a respected local news team with around a dozen full-time reporters, editors and
anchors. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">WMAL’s
estimated weekly listeners are much smaller than WTOP
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{page:WordSection1;}</style>Ken Mills Agency, LLChttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00792966356989583664noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2600560384355436278.post-58877078236660910612020-07-10T00:00:00.000-07:002020-07-10T00:00:00.361-07:00THREE-DAY “XPNFEST” GOES VIRTUAL JULY 24-26 • REGISTRATION FOR “LET’S GO LIVE!” STARTS ON JULY 24TH
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– will happen online this year. The station announced on Wednesday (7/8) that live sets and
archive performances from dozens of artists and groups will be available on Friday
(7/24), Saturday (7/25) and Sunday (7/26).</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">XPNFest </span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">will feature archived
full-length sets or two-song sets by <i>Guster</i>, the <i>Indigo Girls</i>, Kathleen Edwards
and the <i>Blind Boys of Alabama</i>. Some of the featured artists were scheduled to
perform earlier this year at the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">XPoNential
Music Festival</i>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That event was
cancelled due to Covid-19 safety concerns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Most of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">XPNFest</i> performances will be
live. and are scheduled for Sunday. Most o on Sunday. Artists scheduled to perform live
sets include Liz Phair, Devon Gilfillian, The Districts, Illiterate Light and Nicole
Atkins</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">XPNFest</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> is also offering ways
for at-home festival goers to maximize their enjoyment by offering food
recipes, trivia quizzes, and a commemorative t-shirt available for pre-order. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">For
more information, go <a href="http://xpnfest.org/" target="_blank"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">here</b></a>.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt;">PRPD & PMJA ANNOUNCE
REGISTRATION INFO FOR <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">LET’S GO LIVE! </i>VIRTUAL
CONFERENCE</span></b></div>
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radio programmers, content creators, News Directors and indies will virtually
gather in September for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Let’s Go Live</i>,
a collaboration between members of the Public Radio Program Directors
association (PRPD) and the Public Media Journalist Association (PMJA).</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 16.0pt;">Both
organizations cancelled their in-person annual conferences </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">due to Covid-19 safety
concerns.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
four-day collaborative public media summit is scheduled for Monday, September
21 through Thursday, September 24, 2020,</span></div>
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a press release, the collaboration announced the latest information about the
cyber event:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter"; font-size: 14.0pt;">As live conferences and events continue to take a pause
during the COVID-19 crisis, PRPD and PMJA have put their heads together to
create a solution for the entire industry.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“</span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Our 4-Day virtual summit – Let's Go Live! – Is for
industry leaders, public media programmers, content creators, newsroom managers
and journalists, hosted on the newly developed Attendify
event platform. </span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Plans are in place
for more than 25 sessions showcasing a variety of industry experts, as well as
fun and engaging surprises throughout the course of the event. In a year when
most of our industry will go without professional development and travel
opportunities, Let's Go Live! Will give us an affordable chance to convene
and learn.”</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">As
promised, the cost of attending <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Let's Go
Live</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter"; font-size: 14.0pt;">!</span></i><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Is very reasonable. Registration for PRPD and
PMJA members is $150 per individual.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Group rates are also available. The cost for non-members is $200 per person.
Registration is scheduled to begin on July 24th.</span></div>
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more information, go to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Let's Go Live</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter"; font-size: 14.0pt;">!</span></i><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> Information page <a href="https://prpd.org/lets-go-live-collaborative-public-media-summit?fbclid=IwAR2zGzAGQz_DAg0FPfT117Suy_hE-PpN21WwkjSoUOO7lIKeNylgGCrKgsc" target="_blank"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">here</b></a>.</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">As
the results come in from Nielsen Audio’s June PPM ratings station are hoping
the “new normal” will see estimated weekly listeners return to pre-Covid
levels. But that hasn’t happened yet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In
the June PPM ratings for the nations top four radio markets, all five of the
big NPR News/Talk stations remained below February estimated weekly listeners. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Three
of the five stations had larger AQH shares in June than they had in February.
This pattern indicates that fewer people are listening to the stations, but
those who are listening are doing so more often and/or for periods of time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Most
the attention lately has been on AQH shares because stations are focused on
their core listeners. But, if the drops in weekly listeners continue, there
will be concerns about the shrinking numbers of new listeners.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Estimated
weekly listeners (Nielsen calls them “weekly cumulative persons” or “cume”)
include fringe listeners and people who are sampling the station for the first
time. Patterns of listening behavior are changing month-by-month but
out-of-sight is out-of-mind.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Meanwhile,
Nielsen has announced that approximately 3,600 workers will be laid off.
According to press reports, most of the job losses will be in Nielsen’s
international offices. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Domestically,
Nielsen will be leaving “underperforming markets.” This typically means a
market where there are only one or two broadcasters that subscribe to Nielsen’s
ratings. This means that noncommercial stations in “underperforming markets”
also will not be measured by Nielsen. The changes will happen during the second
half of 2020.</span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 16.0pt;">MEET BRETT REESE, THE MANAGER OF KELS-LP IN GREELEY, COLORADO</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Perhaps
you have heard about the LPFM station in Greeley, Colorado, that was
ordered by FCC recently to pay a fine of $15,000. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">KELS-LP, a/k/a
<i>Pirate Radi</i>o <a href="http://www.pirate1047.com/" target="_blank">[link</a>], was penalized for airing over 1,400 commercials. KELS noncommercial
station.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Who
runs KELS? It is Brett Reese. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In 2011 Reese was
featured on national news because of an incident that happened at the station. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He read a commentary on the air regarding <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King,_Jr." title="Martin Luther King, Jr."><span style="color: windowtext; text-decoration: none; text-underline: none;">Martin Luther King, Jr.</span></a> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He told listeners that he had “moral concerns” about MLK and he provided lurid
details.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">At
the time, Reese was a member of the Greeley School Board. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The board publically
censured him in May 2011. Reese appeared to be “intoxicated” at the board
meeting. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Pirate
Radio</i> is a family affair.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Brett’s wife, Chrisann
Reese, is President and Director of Plymouth Gathering, Inc., the entity that
operates WELS. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">According
to Plymouth Gathering’s IRS 990 for 2017, they received revenue of $237,056.
The expenses for the year were $237,056.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Chrisann
Reese, and two other women, Kaylynn Duval and Glenda O’Comor, make up the non-profit's board. They received no compensation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
only itemized expense listed on the 990 was a $97,000 payment to someone. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
name wasn’t revealed because it fell below $100,000,threshold for divulging that information.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">According
to Podtrac’s June ranking of podcast publishers, most are maintaining their
audience since the on-set of the Covid-19 pandemic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, five publishers saw increases in their
audience size.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i>Spark
News</i> compared Podtrac’s top publisher charts for June 2020 and February 2020 to
determine the impact of the pandemic on podcast listening. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We think of Podtrac’s
metric “Monthly U.S. Audience” as measure of overall circulation, sort of like
cumulative weekly listeners, the metric Nielsen uses to determine the size of a
radio station’s audience.</span></div>
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February, the Podtrac chart listed 15 publishers. In June the number of
publishers was 20. We compared February and June audience estimates for 14 of the 15
publishers. WarnerMedia was not listed on the February chart.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Five
of the 14 publishers (36%) increased their monthly audience at the end of the
four-month period. Nine of the publishers (64%) had decreases.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Cumulus/Westwood
One had the biggest gain during the period, up 12%. Barstool Sports and
iHeartRadio also had significant gains.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Both
WNYC Studios and Wondery had a 21% drop in estimated Monthly U.S. Audience in
June compared to February. ESPN’s audience was down 18%.</span></div>
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now turns to Nielsen Audio’s June PPM ratings that will be available this week.
In April and May, estimated weekly listeners dropped by as much as 60% after
the pandemic took hold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">On
Monday (7/6) </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Classical
music fans in Kansas City began celebrating the debut of </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">91.9 Classical KC, </span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">a 24/7 music station on a powerful FM signal that
covers every inch of the metro.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
first piece heard on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">91.9
Classical KC</i> was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Tales from the
Vienna Woods</i> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">composed
by </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Johann
Strauss and performed by the Berlin Philharmonic. </span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">91.9 Classical KC </span></i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">is the culmination of efforts
by KCUR and the Kansas City arts community to provide a full-time Classical
music radio voice. Kansas City had been without a Classical station since
commercial KXTR was sold almost twenty years ago.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">KCUR’s
licensee, the University of Missouri, paid $2 million to obtain the license of
KWJC from William Jewel College. This is a significant financial investment for
KCUR.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">KCUR’s
licensee, the University of Missouri, paid $2 million to obtain the license of
KWJC from William Jewel College. This is a significant investment for
KCUR.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to the FY 2019
disclosure document on the station’s web page [<a href="https://npr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com/legacy/sites/kcur/files/202002/kcur_audit_report_fy2019_-_final.pdf" target="_blank">lin</a>k], KCUR had annual revenue
of $6.5 million.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Though
we don’t know the terms of deal or the service the debt, paying $2 million was risky even before the
on-set of Covid-19. Moving forward, the management of KCUR and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">91.9 Classical KC</i> will need to quickly
monetize the new station.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Sarah
Morris, interim general manager of KCUR said in a press release that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">91.9 Classical KC</i> is part of the
station’s mission:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“The number one reason
we're doing this is to serve our community. We do that through journalism, and
we also do that through enrichment in the arts. We’re really a cultural and
civic institution, not just a journalism organization, although obviously
that's our core business. So this is to serve the broader community.”</span></i></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">NORTH STATE PUBLIC RADIO
SEEKS INPUT ON PROPOSED COLLABORATION WITH CAP RADIO</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Around
a year ago two well-established northern California public radio broadcasters began
exploring ways to work together to expand local journalism and bring listeners
more Northern California coverage.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Capital
Public Radio (“CapRadio”) and North State Public Radio (“NSPR”) in Chico hired
Public Media Company to explore ways the two shops can save money and increase
their news content.</span><span style="font-family: Times; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Now
NSPR is reaching out to its listeners, donors and community leaders for their
input about the collaboration. NSPR operates KCHO in Chico and KFPR in Redding.
</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">CapRadio has two
full-time programming channels – NPR News/Talk KXJZ and Classical music
KXPR. </span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Phil Wilke</span></td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NSPR
GM Phil Wilke said in a press release:</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">“I’m
looking forward to talking with listeners about this opportunity. This
partnership will allow NSPR to increase the size of our newsroom, cut costs and
put those savings back into programming, and tap into membership, engineering
and production services that we currently don’t have.” </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Wilke
added that beginning this week; listeners can ask questions or provide feedback
about the collaboration.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Folks can participate in the survey by going to NSPR’s website [<a href="https://www.mynspr.org/#stream/0" target="_blank">link</a>],</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In
mid July, all submitted comments would be shared with California State
University, Chico leadership, as it considers whether to approve the
partnership.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
two organizations are seeking to share resources to save money and increase
news coverage in northern California.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">When
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Spark News</i> first broke this story on
July 30, 2019 [<a href="http://acrnewsfeed.blogspot.com/2019/07/capital-public-radio-north-state-public.html" target="_blank">lin</a>k], Wilkie told us that the collaboration is not a merger.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Wilke
told <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Spark News</i> in 2019:</span><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">“We will not --
repeat NOT -- be a CapRadio simulcast. Part of the PSOA negotiations is that we
will be keep autonomy in programming decisions. I don't anticipate changes to
our programming, except that we plan to ADD journalists for more robust news
coverage.” </span></i><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter"; font-size: 11.0pt;">Stranger in a Strange Land </span></i></b><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter"; font-size: 11.0pt;">is a 1961 science fiction</span></b></div>
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Bailey, CEO of Walrus Research, may have summed up of the public media
landscape best during a PRPD/RRC webinar when he said: </span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“In
early March 2020 our lives were changed, suddenly and seriously, by the COVID
epidemic. American families took shelter in their homes. Schools and
universities closed, millions of jobs disappeared, no cars were driving the
roads.” </span></i></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Bailey’s
observation was part of a webinar sponsored by PRPD and the Radio Research
Consortium (RRC) that happened last Thursday, July 2<sup>nd</sup>. PRPD CEO and
Executive Director Abby Goldstein brought together recent research from four
respected sources – AudiGraphics, Jacobs Media, RRC and Walrus Research – to
present a clearer picture of listening to public radio’s music formats since
the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We
hope this PRPD/RRC webinar is dry run for the upcoming PRPD/PMJC virtual
conference <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Let’s Go Live</i> [<a href="https://mailchi.mp/prpd/go-live" target="_blank">link</a>]
September 21-24.If so, the September virutal event will be excellent.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">During
last week’s webinar, Goldstein was in “the air chair” as the host. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She presented the findings of all four
researchers in a clear, actionable and concise manner. Rather than presenting a
blizzard of facts, Goldstein focused on telling story that provided context
clarity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Though
the webinar discussed public radio’s four main music formats – Classical, Jazz,
AAA and the format once known as “Urban” – most of the attention was on
Classical music station listeners. To see a recording of the webinar and
supporting material go <a href="https://prpd.org/resources/building-resilience-webinar-series-5-imperative-inclusion" target="_blank"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">here</b></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">You
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Bailey from Walrus set the tone by describing the immediate impact of the
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Levels of persons
using radio…dropped by as much as 50 percent. Closer examination revealed that
the loss of listening happened away from home. That made sense, given that
people were staying in their homes.”</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b></div>
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public radio station in one large market [Slide One].</span></div>
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metro, trending 16 weeks starting January 2, 2020. </span></i></div>
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of away from home listening. In this market, out of home used to be the
dominant location of radio listening. <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">Yet
the blue line shows zero growth in radio listening at home! </b></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Goldstein added these comments:</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i> </i></span><i><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter"; font-size: 14.0pt;">"It is no surprise
that out of home listening tanked when this lock-down began. This slide [shows]
how much less listening was happening out of home. It would be easy to assume
that listening to station streams at home would make up for the out of home
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45 PPM markets declined in AQH persons by over 15% between January/February and
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May 12-14 survey. [This was}wo weeks before the death of George Floyd,
before many states reopened and there were huge rises in
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music stations during April. Goldstein commented on the importance of core
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“</span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter"; font-size: 14.0pt;">We talk about our
core and fringe audiences a LOT. Core audience is your most loyal, your P1’s.
These are the people who spend most of their radio listening with your station
and they are most likely to support you.</span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span></b><span class="Heading2Char"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 13.0pt;">You
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Thursday evening (6/25), Abby Goldstein, President & Executive Director of
PRPD and Terry Gildea, of PMJA announced that the two organizations are
partnering for a fall “4-Day Virtual Summit” called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Let’s Go Live!</i> </span></sup></span></span></div>
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conferences this year due to safety concerns.</span></sup></span></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "American Typewriter"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><sup> </sup></span></b></div>
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September 21 through Thursday, September 24. All conference sessions and other
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to Goldstein and Gildea, the virtual event will be conducted on Attendify, an
online hosting platform. Plans are in place for more than 25 sessions
showcasing a variety of industry experts, as well as fun and engaging surprises
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PRPD and PMJA because of the financial risk. According to Goldstein, the fee
for attendees will be very reasonable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At
the end of the day, PRPD and PMJA are responsible for paying the bills for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Let’s Go Live! </i>By attending </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Let's Go Live!,</i> </span> public media folks will help both organizations.</span></div>
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Monday (6/22) Salisbury University and the University of Maryland Eastern Shore
announced [link] they have established a new partnership that will change
public radio service on the Delmarva Peninsula. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">https://www.delmarvapublicradio.net/post/delmarva-public-media-three-station-collaboration-launch-july-1</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Salisbury
University owns and operates public radio stations WSCL and WSDL in Salisbury,
Maryland. The University of Maryland Eastern Shore owns and operates WEAA in Princess
Anne. The stations have competed for many years.</span></div>
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of July 1<sup>st</sup>, the three stations will adopt the name Delmarva Public
Media (DPM) and introduce new formats that do not duplicate each other. As of
that date, WESM will become the local NPR News/Talk station. WCSL will air
full-time Classical music. WSDL, the smallest of the three stations, will
continue to play Jazz and Blues music and will simulcast certain hours of
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“This partnership makes
sense not only from an operational standpoint, but it will widen the listener
base for each of the stations. From the beginning, we have shared similar
missions of enhancing the area’s cultural offerings and creating a more
informed population.”</span></i></div>
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“elephant in the room” is the forthcoming launch of a new, huge signal from
Delaware Public Media based in Dover. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">As
we first reported last February [<a href="http://acrnewsfeed.blogspot.com/2020/02/jane-vincent-crafts-sweet-deal-to-buy.html" target="_blank">link]</a>, Delaware Public Media has purchased the
broadcasting license of WRAU 88.3 FM, a full-time repeater of WAMU. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">WRAU
has huge signal that that covers the entire market. When WRAU’s signal is added
this fall, it will continue to change listening patterns in the area. The
coverage area for WRAU (map of the right) blankets Salisbury and Ocean City,
the only Nielsen Audio rated market on the peninsula.</span>
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Public Media plans to continue WAMU’S NPR News/Talk format and many listeners
have already tuned to 88.3 FM for news.</span></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"><b>Jane Vincent</b>,</span></td></tr>
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News </i>asked Jane Vincent, President of Delaware Public Media, for her thoughts
on the new partnership and plans for 88.3 FM. She told us via email:</span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"></span></div>
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WESM/Salisbury merger is great. They’ve been working toward it for some time.
Collaborations going forward will be key and smaller stations in particular
could probably benefit from combining resources.”</span></i></div>
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in the process of nailing down loose ends, and hope that 88.3 will debut as
part of the Delaware Public Media family later this year.”</span></i></div>
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many people who work in public media we were surprised by an email we received
this morning (Wednesday 6/24) from Chandra Kavati, VP of Distribution and
Underwriting at APM. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Her message said <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Marketplace</i>
is now involved in a new venture with commercial radio syndicator Westwood One.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The plan is to reversion existing content for commercial news and talk radio stations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
primary voices on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Marketplace Minute</i>
are Nova Safo and Justin Ho, both members of the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Marketplace</i> editorial team.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">APM/Marketplace
and Westwood have already launched <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Marketplace
Minute,</i> a three-times-a day briefings similar to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Marketplace Morning</i>. You can hear what it sounds like <a href="https://www.marketplace.org/shows/marketplace-morning-report/" target="_blank"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">here</b></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Westwood
One President Suzanne Grimes crowed about <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Marketplace
Minute</i> in a press release:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“Marketplace is one of
the most respected names in business news, and we are honored to partner with
them to support their important work. With crisp radio segments and easily
accessible podcasts and flash briefings, our audience of more than 250 million
monthly listeners can quickly access relevant and actionable news to help make
smart financial decisions.”</span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In
other words, <i>Marketplace </i>is forsaking their public radio exclusivity to maybe
make a few extra bucks. At Westwood, <i>Marketplace Minute</i> will be in the
company of Mark Levin, Michael Savage, Ben Shapiro and Focus on the Family, You
can see Westwood’s program lineup <a href="https://www.westwoodone.com/programming/talk-radio/" target="_blank"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">here</b></a>.</span></div>
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defended APM’s new business venture by saying;</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“[The deal] diversifies
our revenue stream, allowing another way for us to maintain our quality,
non-partisan, <b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">solutions-based journalism</b>
to serve our core, public media-based audience.” <br style="mso-special-character: line-break;" />
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have posted the complete press release from Kavati on the right.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Kavati
said that critics from public media should realize that this is first time a
public media entity has partnered with a commercial audio network in this way. She
also said in the press release:</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“This new product creates
an opportunity to introduce new audiences to a tried and true public
media-based brand — increasing awareness of the public radio network overall.” </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">What
APM seems to not realize is there may be no windfall of revenue from the
commercial radio deal. APM has chosen to give away an essential element of
public radio’s brand. APM says it needs the money.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Westwood
One is owned by Cumulus Media. Cumulus is in the business of “bulk audience
delivery.” Content and </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">solutions-based journalism</b></span></i> does not matter to Cumulus. The only thing that counts
is the number “available ears” that hear what Kavati calls “the product.”</span></div>
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APM has chosen to do is so far from public media’s mission that someone one might
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you probably know, the Public Media Journalists Association (PMJA) conference
was cancelled this year because of safety concerns. </span></div>
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of the conference online, including the results of the annual PMJA Awards
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<i>Virtual Awards Gala </i>will happen on Thursday, June 26<sup>th</sup> at 8:00pm ET.
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The online event is free and
participants must register before they attend. Registration in formation is
available <a href="http://https//attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/8391893163932895500" target="_blank"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">here</b></a>.</span></div>
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awards are notable for several reasons. They honor the work of journalists in
markets of all sizes. Some content developers listen carefully to the winning
entries to find emerging new talent. Also the PMJA Awards are the only “all
system” event at a time when the public radio family needs it.</span></div>
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Director of PMJA, said there are a few changes in the awards process this year.
The category <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Call-in Shows</i> is now
called <i>Audience Engagement Programs</i> and they recognize shows with all types of audience
participation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Also new this year is a <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Student Multi-Media Presentation</i>
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during the <i>Virtual Awards Gala</i>, Maria Hinojosa will receive the 2020 Leo C. Lee
award and Kate Concannon will receive PMJA’s 2020 Editor of the Year award. New
members of the PMJA board will be announced during the webinar.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Just prior to </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">the <i>Virtual Awards Gala,</i></span> the </span><i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">NONCOMM
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during this week’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">NONCOMM Thursdays</i>,
WXPN’s Bruce Warren will spin <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Big
Wheel of Topics</i>, an opportunity for participants to discuss topics that are
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Does
it seem to you that people are more stressed out these days? Do people appear
to be more negative and be more frustrated by the lack of control over what
will happen to us in the future?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">If
you said, “yes” to these questions, you are part of the 80% of U.S. adult
population that is deeply worried and stressed our predicament.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">According
to a newly released study by the American Psychological Association (APA), the
current stress level is at a record high level. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">APA has conducted annual <i>Stress in America</i> surveys for five years
and 2020 stands out as the most stressful year ever.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">APA
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Harris asked 3,013
Americans, age 18 or older, about the cause of stress in their own lives. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
survey was conducted between May 21 and June 3, 2020. Minneapolis police killed
George Floyd on May 25<sup>th</sup>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "helvetica neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">On May 25<sup>th</sup>. Protests,
including some that became violent, continued through the remainder of survey period
and still are happening today.</span></div>
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than 8 in 10 Americans (83%) said the future of our nation is a significant
source of stress.</span></div>
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APA/Harris study also found that actions by “the government” in response to the
pandemic caused or added to their own stress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">This
coming Thursday (6/25) NONCOMM Tuesdays will feature a live performance by
Bruce Hornsby. Hornsby’s music is popular on noncommercial AAA and Alt Rock
stations.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Hornsby
is a unique artist who writes and performs songs that combine elements of
classical, jazz, bluegrass and gospel music. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">He is known for hits like<i> </i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Walking in Memphis</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Way It Is</i>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"> At
this Thursday’s Zoom event, Bruce Warren of WXPN will debut the Big Wheel of
Topics, a way to let participants discuss topics that feel are important. The
virtual meeting starts at 6:00pm ET. Registration and more information can be
found </span><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;"><a href="https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/6715925267989/WN_uAlQbhpHR_OXF2pIJ5IHPA" target="_blank"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">here</b></a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Last
Thursday (6/18), NONCOMM Thursdays presented a comprehensive review of the new
Alternative Urban format from three programmers of stations that air the
format.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mike Henry of Paragon Media
Strategies moderated the discussion. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Henry is the creator of the Urban Alt format.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
panel also included Jacquie Gales Webb who was elevated to VP of Radio at the Corporation
for Public Broadcasting (CPB) last week. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">In
2018 CPB announced their intention to support programming that will connect
with young, multicultural audiences. CPB invested $1.3 million in the
initiative and chose Paragon to make it happen,</span></div>
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Gales Webb</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">Gales
Webb told the webinar participants that the Urban Alt format uses music and
entertainment as the gateway to news, information, and arts and cultural
happenings within local communities.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">“COVID-19
and the recent awakening regarding race in America has changed all of our
lives, and with the challenges come huge responsibilities — and opportunities." </span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">"CPB
provided support to create and pilot a new, innovative music format that radio
stations across the country can use to draw young, multi-cultural listeners to
public radio." </span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">A
new survey commissioned by <i>Variety</i> [<a href="https://variety.com/vip/consumers-arent-ready-to-pay-for-podcasts-but-platforms-keep-trying-1234631968/" target="_blank">ink</a>] shows that very few American podcast
listeners will pay a subscription fee or make a donation to hear a podcast.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
survey, conducted by YouGov, found that eight in ten American adults who
haven’t previously paid for podcasts were “not at all likely” or “very
unlikely” to do so in the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Only
around 20% of the survey respondents said they were “very likely” or “somewhat
likely” to pay for content.</span></div>
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online survey was conducted June 8<sup>th</sup> through the 10<sup>th</sup>.
Variety did not say how many people were in the sample.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Helvetica Neue"; font-size: 14.0pt;">The
results of the survey seem to indicate that Luminary misread the landscape
before launching their pay-for-play service in 2019. Luminary has dropped its
subscription fees by over 60% in recent months.</span></div>
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