Save America's Treasures, a grant program dedicated to preserving America's cultural heritage, is awarding $72,120 to WGBH for the preservation of public radio broadcast of the August 28, 1963, March on Washington. WGBH has the only existing recordings of radio coverage of this historic event. The Save America's Treasures grant will help document, restore, and preserve these recordings for enjoyment and study by academics and the general public.
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Bostonist sends a hearty congratulations to Rebecca Watson, of Brookline, for winning the Public Radio Talent Quest. Watson will have the opportunity to produce a pilot to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
When the Public Radio Talent Quest was announced in April, Public Radio Exchange and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting said they were looking for the elusive quality of "hostiness."
Public Radio Talent Quest is live and taking submissions and your vote. Public Radio Exchange (PRX) and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting have teamed up and are giving away $70,000 and a shot at creating your very own radio show. The contest opened on Monday and is taking entries from radio wannabes. They host the entries and feed them to the team of judges. Oh, wait, did we say team? We meant everyone who visits...
NPR is sometimes seen as the "gold standard" of broadcast radio, and Bostonist thinks the same could be said for webcasts. The On Point with Tom Ashbrook podcast contains the same content that can be listened to on WBUR. Bostonist likes being able to listen to it when and where we want. On Point is a news show that delivers everything you could want from a news program. The show takes a close look at...
It’s opensource courseware – fully streamed content over the web live. If you miss anything check out the archives and download the podcasts and powerpoints.
SFist commeters pose for before and aftershocks when the mayor commemorates a 1906 earthquake...at 4:30 in the morning. A hot tip on the Chronicle vending machines comes in and the SFist war correspondent risks life and limb to post this dispatch from the frontlines.
With the air outside dropping steadily this December, it’s hard to remember how cold it seemed last Wednesday. As the damp wind whipped through our city’s streets, Bostonist hustled down Landsdowne St. to get to the Avalon for a night with Iron and Wine and Calexico, and was greeted with a warm reception. At this point, midway through Calexico’s set, the temperature in the ballroom was considerably higher than outside, thanks in no small part...
Morning Stories is one of the oldest podcasts today and the first public radio podcast. With this show on the web not long after the term podcast was coined, Tony Kahn beat many people to publishing online. Morning Stories is a collection of weird, interesting, and engaging stories from people's lives. Tony Kahn bring these stories to an audience to help them see how other people live and to tell their life stories.
When elected leaders make extra time to hear the concerns of well-heeled campaign contributors, Bostonist doesn't bat an eye. After all, politics is not a field from which we expect, um, ethical behavior. But when the amount of cash donated corresponds to the number of Red Sox tickets given to the donor, civic duty requires that we cry foul. Today's Globe reports that the Republican Governors Association will give four roof deck tickets for next Monday's Sox-Indians game to anyone who coughs up $50,000. Of course, donors also get photo-ops with various Republican Governors, including our own (he's the vice-chairman of the Rep. Govs. Assoc.), and get to attend the fun-filled New England Governors Forum (which, in addition to the Republican Governors of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, features the Governors of two lesser-known New England states, Arkansas and Missouri). So maybe it's not scalping - maybe donors are contributing $49,820 and $180 is face value for four tickets. (Or maybe the Red Sox are donating the tickets as an inducement to encourage private giving, the way local businesses do with public radio, although we doubt it). But The Globe also informs us that "those offering smaller donations - from $5,000 to $25,000 - get either two or three tickets to Fenway's right-field roof, depending on the amount" [Bostonist's emphasis]. This quid pro quo is starting to sound more like the sort of activity prohibited by Mass. General Laws chapter 140, section 185A.
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