What is the future of Podcasting? Nobody knows better than Jake Shapiro. Jake is founding CEO of PRX – an award-winning nonprofit whose mission is to deliver significant stories to millions of people. Since its launch in 2003 PRX has been a leader and innovator in public media. PRX programs include The Moth Radio Hour, This American Life, Snap Judgment, Reveal, 99% Invisible and the Radiotopia podcast network. Fast Company named PRX as one of the world’s Top 10 Most Innovativ

There are events for radio and online radio and digital and local revenue and commercial and public and Christian broadcasters, but there’s no event for people across the audio space to gather together in one place at one time. Audio is one medium, and hivio, the audio future festival, is that one event. I’m proud to announce that tickets are available for the third annual hivio audio future festival – this year in Los Angeles at the legendary Hollywood Improv. Who’s on the s

You can limit yourself by your delivery mechanism. That’s the message from Jennifer Ferro, General Manager of LA’s legendary non-commercial juggernaut KCRW. Quoting Jennifer: We have never thought of ourselves as a radio station. The radio is just the delivery device.  It’s all the gooey stuff that we think up, create, and analyze that makes us what we are. And KCRW most recently illustrated this very concept in their groundbreaking iPad app, the Music Mine, developed in conj

To really understand the opportunities available to expand a radio brand you need to begin by understanding why the brand exists and why the audience should care. If you have a reason to exist – a mission, if you will – then you can expand your brand across platforms in a manner which fits that mission, even if it means creating applications which don’t quite look like the brand they emerged from. So it is with the cool new iPad app from KCRW, called the KCRW Music Mine. KCRW