Sunday, August 14, 2005

Doug Kaye: Chris and his team have launched what may be the last of the old-time public-radio programs, and they've aimed it right at the middle of the black hole that will swallow them and the rest of public radio: the Internet and podcasting. (Via Scripting News.) Doug Kaye's post is essential for those of us who care about the future of the best that public radio offers. I too download Open Source Radio (Open Source from PRI is a lame marketing name...) to my iPod, but I have no idea how the show can be sustained. Doug talks about community, but a complementary possibility is some form of subscription service for my selection of favorite talk and music programs. X hours/month at $Y/hour, which is easy to budget because I can easily estimate how much time I have to listen to radio (basically, how much time I spend at the gym...). The revenue would be distributed proportionally to download volume among the program creators. 10:11:19 AM