The Christian Science Monitor today joins the fray about NPR, individual public radio stations and their digital futures. It writes:
Public radio stations make millions from pledge drives that intersperse the two hit news shows, and NPR hasn't wanted to undercut local stations' fundraising by giving fans another way to hear the programs. But that could change, as NPR considers whether to fully embrace 'new media' technology at the risk of bypassing some public-radio stations.
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Jeffrey Dvorkin had some good background on the issue: http://nowthedetails.blogspot.com/2008/03/why-is-managing-npr-so-damn-difficult.html
It's sort of the same dilemma that newspapers are facing. I don't think that NPR's regular broadcasting is ever going to disappear. They have done a good job driving people to their Web sites to download podcast forms of the shows.
Actually, I think newspapers could learn a lot from the way NPR has handled the transition to new media.
- Kerry, from radio-sweethearts.com
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