Todd Mundt

I don’t think I can post screenshots here, but if you’re in public media, you’ve probably seen the new Public Radio Tuner iPhone app that American Public Media will release next month.
I feel a little awkward because APM announced this last Thursday and I’m blogging about it a week later. But I was busy at [...]

At the Public Radio Program Director’s conference this morning, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has announced a big initiative to find the best independent producers, support them, and encourage them to reinvent public radio’s sound. CPB Senior Vice President for Radio Bruce Theriault made the announcement during his address to the conference.
CPB and the Association [...]

Live, or nearly live from the Public Radio Program Director’s Conference, a first look at the winners of the 2008 ACE Awards (the Award for Creative Excellence in public radio), presented this morning by Kai Ryssdal of APM’s Marketplace:
Promotions
Michigan Radio, Ann Arbor
runner-ups: Oregon Public Broadcasting and WUNC, Chapel Hill
Classical Programming
Classical Minnesota Public Radio (for the [...]

Notes from CPB Senior Vice President for Radio Bruce Theriault’s keynote address, delivered a few minutes ago. Please excuse any typos - I’ll scan and correct as I go:
Our best practices are no longer enough. The one thing that will take us into the new era is to throw open the doors. The real reinvention [...]

Radio people, what are you telling listeners who ask you about getting your streams on their iPhone? Are you planning to set up your own iPhone streams, as WFMU did last fall? Are you going to recommend an app?
At Louisville Public Media, we’ve seen an increase in the number of emails (and tweets) asking about [...]

Diane Mermigas addresses the digital switch in her latest post, noting that while consumers are confused about the coming change, and many aren’t ready for it… the industry is in same quandary.
Broadcasters face an expected 9% loss in revenue next year, and after February 17th, 2009, every confused consumer will represent lost viewing, lower ratings, [...]

With CBC Radio 2 getting ready to re-launch on Monday Tuesday (I blogged about it in March), CBC is announcing details of the four new Internet streams it promised earlier this year. The new streams will focus on Jazz, Classical music, Canadian songwriters and Canadian composers. The new streams will launch on Monday, too.
Uh, so [...]

John Proffitt has posted some of the general details of a reorganization announced yesterday at Alaska Public Telecommunications in Anchorage. The official announcement is here.
The reorganization is similar to ones undertaken by a number of stations in recent years, merging the management of radio, television and web, looking for a more logical org chart that [...]

Best-in-class right now: KQED.org has relaunched with a new look, more integration between radio and TV, universal navigation and a few other goodies.
That’s my opinion and you’re certainly entitled to yours. Take a look: The design is finely balanced - lots of white space, smart use of Helvetica, boxes with dark borders that add heft [...]

If you have bad news to tell your audience, a canceled program, a big format change… Apple’s MobileMe Status Updates blog shows you how not to do it:
Steve Jobs has asked me to write a posting every other day or so to let everyone know what’s happening with MobileMe, and I’m working directly with the [...]

Worth a read, if you’ve not done so already, is the big chunk of an email to the staff of Bryant Park Project, from NPR’s interim CEO, Dennis Haarsager, who completed the cycle by posting it to his blog on Tuesday.
It’s exceptionally good, written with the tone you’d expect from someone who is a visionary, [...]

The latest addition to what I call Personal Public Television - the universe of public media content that you can create and curate yourself:
If you’re afflicted with the disease which has no name - the periodic, intense craving for documentary films - then you’ll love SnagFilms. I just discovered this site and after spending some [...]