Sunday, November 21, 2010

NPR radio shows to podcast

NPR Podcasts

This American Life
On the Media
Radiolab
Studio 360
Hearing Voices
Radio Open Source
Too Much Information
Planet Money
Sound Opinions
But the result is all too often flaccid radio, and listeners who have no idea what else is out there that they might enjoy. There are public radio stations so hidebound that they run the not-that-hilarious Car Talk twice each week. It’s a waste of the precious hours in the broadcast day to repeat the program, and it’s not a good sign for the future that program directors aren’t taking more chances. If they’re not careful, NPR could wind up without a farm team of experienced new program makers, and with the same demographic problem now crippling public television (to see what I mean, check out your public TV pledge drive and try to imagine what age group they’re appealing to with overweight doo-wop groups squeezing into sequined suits). Sound Opinions is as good a barometer as any; if your local public radio station isn’t airing it, they’re not trying very hard.

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http://kalx.berkeley.edu/
http://minnesota.publicradio.org/

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