Public Radio Exchange

The Public Radio Exchange (PRX) is a nonprofit web-based platform for digital distribution, review, and licensing of radio programs. The organization claims to be the largest on-demand catalog of public radio programs available for broadcast and Internet use.[1]

Mission

According to PRX's site, its mission "is to build a fair market for creative audio content and an online community of increasing gains; to create more opportunities for diverse programming of exceptional quality, interest, and importance to reach more listeners."[2]

The company enables terrestrial radio stations to audition pieces and download broadcast-quality audio to share with their listeners over the air or online. PRX catalogs thousands of pieces and allows users to search by topic, length, format, tone and time of the year.

The site also provides a community space open to public radio listeners, producers and stations, where users can discover, rate and review pieces. In addition to providing feedback, the rating system brings work to the attention of stations, who are able to sort pieces by their rating. When a piece is licensed by a station PRX provides the producer with a royalty.

PRX provides stations and producers with tools to manage and monitor transactions, rights, usage statistics and payments within their individual and group accounts.

History

The PRX site and services launched in September 2003 after a two-year planning, research, and development phase supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ford Foundation. Since then PRX has received additional support from the NTIA Technology Opportunities Program, the MacArthur Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the Surdna Foundation, and Google Grants. PRX offices are located in Cambridge, MA.

On February 28, 2007 PRX and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced the Public Radio Talent Quest.[3] This competition is an open search for new public radio talent, and gives producers the chance to produce a pilot show for public radio. Finalists will be chosen after a five round competition voted on by fans, public radio professionals and celebrity judges.

On May 14, 2007 the first round of submissions ended with 1,452 entries. As of May 22, 2007, the Public Radio Talent Quest site has over 14,600 registered users.

On April 9, 2008 The MacArthur Foundation selected PRX as one of its 2008 recipients of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.

In late November 2008 PRX soft launched PRX 3.0. The launch includes their Remix Radio project which provides a sampling of the content available for licensing on the site.

On 2009-01-01, PRX, Inc became a Massachusetts 501c3 nonprofit corporation. Previously PRX had been a project area of the Station Resource Group, a Maryland nonprofit.

On 2009-01-28, PRX was added to XM Satellite Radio on channel 136.

On 2009-07-19, PRX launched the Public Radio Player 2.0, an iPhone app for public radio developed by PRX, NPR and other public radio partners, and funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting

On 2009-08-11, PRX was included in CPB's agreement with SoundExchange through 2015 as a covered public radio entity for music webcasting royalties

On 2010-02-01, PRX launched the This American Life iPhone app

On 2010-06-16, PRX was announced as a winner of the 2010 Knight News Challenge for Story Exchange a crowdfunding journalism project

On 2010-09-08 PRX announced $2.7M in new funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Ford Foundation

On 2010-07-07, PRX launched the WBUR Boston iPhone app

In 2010, PRX won a Peabody Award for The Moth Radio Hour[4]

On 2011-12-08, PRX announced $2.5M in funding from Knight Foundation to create the Public Media Accelerator

In May 2014, PRX received a Peabody Award for the Reveal show "The VA's Opiate Overload".[5]

PRX Remix

Formerly known as Public Radio Remix. As of 2011, two radio stations, KPBZ in Spokane, Washington and WREM in Canton, New York, air a full-time schedule of programming from PRX, branded as Public Radio Remix.[6] Both stations are owned by the same organizations as their markets' primary National Public Radio affiliates.

Several other public radio stations air some, but not all, Public Radio Exchange programming in their schedules.

Numbers

As of May 22, 2007 PRX has 12,167 available radio pieces, 28,149 members, including 445 radio stations,[7] and 2,782 individual producers [8]

Programs distributed by PRX

Regular series distributed by PRX include:


Some notable programs distributed on PRX include:

See also

References

  1. ↑ Station Resource Group 2006 Activity Review
  2. ↑ "Introduction to the Public Radio Exchange". PRX - Public Radio Exchange. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  3. ↑ Corporation for Public Broadcasting press release
  4. ↑ 70th Annual Peabody Awards, May 2011.
  5. ↑ 73rd Annual Peabody Awards, May 2014.
  6. ↑ "World Ends, NERW Rolls On". NorthEast Radio Watch, May 23, 2011.
  7. ↑ "PRX Station search". PRX - Public Radio Exchange. Retrieved 13 October 2014.
  8. ↑ PRX Producer search.
  9. ↑ Lapin, Andrew (September 10, 2012). "New youth-flavored variety entries move genre out of its Prairie Home". Current (Takoma Park, Maryland: American University School of Communication).

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