Purdue University-owned WBAA in Lafayette, IN is dropping Ira Glass' "This American Life" in protest over the show and its sister podcast "Serial" being offered on Pandora, another instance of public radio station discontent over their program suppliers dabbling in new media (recently, in response to station complaints NPR has announced that it will not promote its extensive lineup of podcasts on their drive time news shows or the NPR One app that allows listeners to customize podcasts and news stories from the network and its affiliates) and a sense of Glass, after years of doing very imaginative pledge drive bits for stations (often the only listenable pledge drive segments), being unfaithful to who brought him to the dance--Glass responds that "TAL"'s podcast success and placement on Pandora is only bringing additional listeners who don't listen to public radio and might be tempted to hear more:
http://current.org/2016/05/indiana-station-to-cut-this-american-life-in-response-to-pandora-deal/ Meanwhile, WBAA, like too many public radio stations, continue to run the years-old reruns of "Car Talk" on Saturday mornings because public radio programmers are too damn scared to try anything new and because it's still a pledge-getter. (As far as I can tell, only WNYC in NY, KCRW in LA and WBEZ in Chicago have dropped "Car Talk" completely--when Ray Magliozzi retired in 2012 and effectively ended first-run production, Glass called on stations to drop the show and try something new--for the record, Glass has said that when he retires, "TAL" will also end.) And don't forget that Sirius XM's NPR channel has never carried the drive time news shows due to affiliate disapproval (although it does carry the midday "Here and Now" produced by WBUR in Boston). -- -- 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.
