{"id":65,"date":"2006-09-20T08:26:44","date_gmt":"2006-09-20T13:26:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/casts\/the-future-of-public-radio"},"modified":"2010-02-19T14:59:47","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T19:59:47","slug":"the-future-of-public-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/the-future-of-public-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"The Future of Public Radio: Part 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left;\" title=\"PRPD\" src=\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/podcasts\/2006\/prpdlogo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Annually, public radio programmers from across the nation (and overseas) gather to talk shop. This year, the mood at the <a href=\"https:\/\/prpd.org\/about\/about.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Public Radio Program Directors Association<\/a> conference in Philadelphia was one of concern. With many listeners newly entranced by the gadgets and gizmos of the 21st century — podcasts, blogs, satellite radio, streaming audio — it all adds up to one intimidating fact: the consumers of today’s ‘content’ want it on their terms. And the old guard of public radio now realizes it has some catching up to do. But therein lies the opportunity, and the reason why many of the more adventuresome attendees had a spring in their step.<\/p>\n<p>For starters, here’s <strong>Jay Kernis<\/strong>, the senior VP of programming at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\">National Public Radio<\/a>:<br \/>\nClick here: <a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/podcasts\/kernisfinal.mp3\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/mike.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> (9 1\/2 minutes) to listen to the interview.<\/p>\n<p>Also in attendance was a contingent of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/worldservice\/\" target=\"_blank\">BBC World Service<\/a> cognoscenti, who brought their own brand of blunt charm to the affair. Key among the charmers was <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/pressoffice\/biographies\/biogs\/worldservice\/philipharding.shtml\" target=\"_blank\">Phil Harding<\/a><\/strong>, director of English Network and News.<br \/>\nClick here: <a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/podcasts\/philhardingfinal.mp3\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/mike.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> (7 minutes) to listen to the interview.<\/p>\n<p>But with <strong>Elisabeth Perez-Luna<\/strong> in attendance, the Americans were able to hold their own. Currently, she’s the news director and the executive producer of national radio programming at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whyy.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">WHYY<\/a>:<br \/>\nClick here: <a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/podcasts\/e-perez-luna.mp3\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/mike.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> (12 minutes) to listen to the interview.<\/p>\n<p><strong>And there’s more!<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WUNC’s George Boosey, Nikki Shields of Maine Public Radio & Michael Arnold of PRI<\/li>\n<li> the BBC’s Liliane Landor, On Point’s Karen Shiffman & Eric Nuzum of NPR<\/li>\n<li>Iowa Public Radio’s Todd Mundt, Jackie Sauter with NCPR & MPR’s Andrew Haeg<\/li>\n<li>Maria Thomas of NPR & Lucio Mesquita of the BBC.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Note: to read a PRX review of my interview with Jackie Sauter (part 4) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prx.org\/reviews\/6460\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_8303\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-65-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/podcasts\/kernisfinal.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/podcasts\/kernisfinal.mp3\">https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/podcasts\/kernisfinal.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\" style=\"margin-bottom: 1px !important;\">Podcast: <a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/podcasts\/kernisfinal.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/?powerpress_pinw=65-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/podcasts\/kernisfinal.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"kernisfinal.mp3\">Download<\/a><\/p><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/feed\/podcast\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a><\/p><!--powerpress_player-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Annually, public radio programmers from across the nation (and overseas) gather to talk shop. This year, the mood at the Public Radio Program Directors Association conference in Philadelphia was one of concern. With many listeners newly entranced by the gadgets and gizmos of the 21st century — podcasts, blogs, satellite radio, streaming audio — it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17],"tags":[222,289,288,73,219,291,18,72,5,290],"class_list":["post-65","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-public-media","tag-bbc","tag-elisabeth-perez-luna","tag-jay-kernis","tag-jenny-attiyeh","tag-npr","tag-phil-harding","tag-public-radio","tag-thoughtcast","tag-thoughtcast-shorts","tag-whyy"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Future of Public Radio: Part 1 - https:\/\/thoughtcast.org<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/the-future-of-public-radio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Future of Public Radio: Part 1 - https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Annually, public radio programmers from across the nation (and overseas) gather to talk shop. This year, the mood at the Public Radio Program Directors Association conference in Philadelphia was one of concern. With many listeners newly entranced by the gadgets and gizmos of the 21st century — podcasts, blogs, satellite radio, streaming audio — it […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/the-future-of-public-radio\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2006-09-20T13:26:44+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2010-02-19T19:59:47+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/podcasts\/2006\/prpdlogo.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jenny\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jenny\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/the-future-of-public-radio\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/the-future-of-public-radio\/\",\"name\":\"The Future of Public Radio: Part 1 - https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/the-future-of-public-radio\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/the-future-of-public-radio\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/podcasts\/2006\/prpdlogo.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2006-09-20T13:26:44+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2010-02-19T19:59:47+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/#\/schema\/person\/482634bb87dd8569f57e861fc819f6b8\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/the-future-of-public-radio\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/the-future-of-public-radio\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/the-future-of-public-radio\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/podcasts\/2006\/prpdlogo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/podcasts\/2006\/prpdlogo.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/the-future-of-public-radio\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"The Future of Public Radio: Part 1\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/\",\"name\":\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\",\"description\":\"An online watering hole for ideas\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/#\/schema\/person\/482634bb87dd8569f57e861fc819f6b8\",\"name\":\"Jenny\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a1f3a024733a69a5f9a2ecbcbd5d47e6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a1f3a024733a69a5f9a2ecbcbd5d47e6?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Jenny\"},\"description\":\"Welcome to ThoughtCast, an online watering hole for ideas. Our focus is on conversations with authors, academics and intellectuals. I\u2019m Jenny Attiyeh, the host and producer.\",\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/author\/jenny-attiyeh\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"The Future of Public Radio: Part 1 - https:\/\/thoughtcast.org","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/the-future-of-public-radio\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"The Future of Public Radio: Part 1 - https:\/\/thoughtcast.org","og_description":"Annually, public radio programmers from across the nation (and overseas) gather to talk shop. This year, the mood at the Public Radio Program Directors Association conference in Philadelphia was one of concern. With many listeners newly entranced by the gadgets and gizmos of the 21st century — podcasts, blogs, satellite radio, streaming audio — it […]","og_url":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/the-future-of-public-radio\/","og_site_name":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org","article_published_time":"2006-09-20T13:26:44+00:00","article_modified_time":"2010-02-19T19:59:47+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/podcasts\/2006\/prpdlogo.jpg","type":"","width":"","height":""}],"author":"Jenny","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Jenny","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/the-future-of-public-radio\/","url":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/the-future-of-public-radio\/","name":"The Future of Public Radio: Part 1 - https:\/\/thoughtcast.org","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/the-future-of-public-radio\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/the-future-of-public-radio\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/podcasts\/2006\/prpdlogo.jpg","datePublished":"2006-09-20T13:26:44+00:00","dateModified":"2010-02-19T19:59:47+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/#\/schema\/person\/482634bb87dd8569f57e861fc819f6b8"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/the-future-of-public-radio\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/the-future-of-public-radio\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/the-future-of-public-radio\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/podcasts\/2006\/prpdlogo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/podcasts\/2006\/prpdlogo.jpg"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/the-future-of-public-radio\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"The Future of Public Radio: Part 1"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/#website","url":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/","name":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org","description":"An online watering hole for ideas","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/#\/schema\/person\/482634bb87dd8569f57e861fc819f6b8","name":"Jenny","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a1f3a024733a69a5f9a2ecbcbd5d47e6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/a1f3a024733a69a5f9a2ecbcbd5d47e6?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Jenny"},"description":"Welcome to ThoughtCast, an online watering hole for ideas. Our focus is on conversations with authors, academics and intellectuals. I\u2019m Jenny Attiyeh, the host and producer.","sameAs":["https:\/\/thoughtcast.org"],"url":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/author\/jenny-attiyeh\/"}]}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pjWRe-13","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thoughtcast.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}