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April 23, 2005
PRX
I often get emails from listeners who want to me to point them in the direction of other interesting audio content. I always make the same recommendation: PRX. The public radio exchange is the greatest thing that has happened to public radio in a loooooooong time, you can use it as a listener to find content to listen to and you can use it as a radio producer to distribute your content (I use it exclusively to send out my programs) and stations use it to get content. Jake Shapiro, the executive director of PRX is one of the most amazing people I have met in my lifetime and he and Steve Schultze (prx technical manager) have been slaving away for the past few years to make this thing a reality. (John Barth, Seth Fitzsimmons, Brendan Greeley, and Jones Franzel have been slaving away for the past while as well) Its a small staff that has done wonderful things. SO it makes me extremely angry to hear some punk badmouth my friends. Recently a site calling itself 'the real public radio network' (complete with code totally ripped off from prx) has sprung up - I don't have a problem with what they are doing but they SHOULD NOT be badmouthing my friends! I got this from an email the exec director of RPRN wrote in response to a query about how they will be different from PRX:
We looked at PRX and thought it was a bit elitist and inwardly focused to the existing community. Our original idea was to feed pirate radio stations globally and it broadened out into all radio, then all audio
ELITIST???? Man, I want to punch that guy in the mouth. But anyway, the point of this rant is simply to point you all in the direction of PRX, there really is a lot of great stuff to listen to, most of it from independent producer types like myself, check it out and enjoy. The photo is from the NFCB confernece in Baltimore last week, the PRX booth was always crowded.
Posted by bw at April 23, 2005 09:15 PM