American Public Media to Cancel Weekend America

(St. Paul, Minn.) December 19, 2008-American Public Media™ is cancelling weekly production and distribution of Weekend America® as a result of the current economy's impact on station carriage and sponsorships. The final broadcast will be January 31, 2009. Thirteen full- and part-time positions will be ( Read more... )

I'm listening to the BETA stream of the new Radio Heartland service that starts on Friday. Huh...

Critique later, maybe if I have time.

[EDIT] Ah! Two songs set on loop, but I guess the mechanics work.

Position Summary:

The Programmer/Analyst will work with other Information Technology resources and business users to maintain our implementation of Lawson Financial software, interfaces, and functionality. This administration/support will be performed in a LSF 9.0 or later environment using LSF9 or later components and security structure built on ( Read more... )

Ok, I edited the APHC Joke Show this morning and I'm running around the building tying up loose ends. I get back to my desk to start doing some of my regular work when I put on my headphones to listen to my iTunes. I'm behind in The Current's Song of the Day podcast, I'm happily typing away when I hear the F-Bomb on a song. WHAT?!! Rewind. Play. ( Read more... )

I'm busting my chops on editing The Splendid Table fund raiser. It's good because I am learning how to do things in ProTools that I haven't had a chance to practice. I had to take raw tape from a recording session and chop it up and get the elements I needed. Now, I've edited it down and my show is coming in at the right time. All for good. The ( Read more... )

Out of the frying pan into a different fire. I'm waist deep in production here at the Public Radio Factory. I've finished two funders that will run on Saturday. Car Talk and This American Life are in the can and in Dcart scheduled for broadcast. I have A Praire Home Companion, Wait Wait Don't Tell Me and The Spledid Table left to get chopped up in ( Read more... )

If you were a Minnesota Public Radio member and you could get a discount at an independent restaurant or retailer (NOT A CHAIN) where would it be? Give me names and addresses of establishments that you'd like to see MPR members get a discount at. Reply in commnets please. Thanks !

The member drive is going fairly well. The message is clear, the listeners are responding and I am answering less and less phone calls and emails which lets me do mindless data entry stuff. There is something comforting about a stream of data. Call me weird. Anyway, the only bummer about this drive is that my supervisor prefers that I not work ( Read more... )

Today on Trial By Fire we get to learn how to FTP files from Content Depot. Whee! 

Not everything in my work life sucks. I want to start documenting the things that are fun or are working. Matt Haimovitz is going to be in a studio at 10 AM and I am going to go watch the interview.