As of July 1, Chicago NPR station WBEZ will take "This American Life" off of the satellite system run by NPR and syndicate it themselves through the Public Radio Exchange, the web-based service that already distributes many programs produced by individual stations and producers, including WBEZ's "Sound Opinions," "America's Test Kitchen Radio," the soundtrack of "Moyers & Co." and as of a few weeks ago the entire catalog of Chicago classical music station WFMT's network, except for the two 24/7 classical and jazz music services, which remain on the bird (the station is putatively commercial, but owned by Chicago PBS station WTTW and does pledge drives to bolster low ad revenues because of the format and the station's long-standing policy of all commercials being live reads by staff announcers). Ira Glass says that listeners won't notice the difference from when "TAL" was on the bird distributed by PRI, other than the fact that Glass isn't saying "PRI" and the lack of the PRI audio logo at the end--sorry, Dave:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/breaking/chi-chicago-public-media-this-american-life-20140528,0,196278.story Interestingly, Glass says that Sirius XM offered him his own channel if he would give "TAL" exclusively to them--he turned them down. (SXM's weekly highlight reels of Bob Edwards' show are syndicated to OTA pubradio stations by PRI.) -- -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
