The Company for Public Broadcasting (CPB) awarded a $359,600 grant to public media distributor PRX for a pilot that may allow free entry to Dovetail for 30 public media stations. Dovetail is PRX’s digital platform that at the moment helps a whole lot of podcasts, together with greater than 150 from stations nationwide.
Public media stations that take part within the pilot will check Dovetail’s impression on viewers engagement and station assessment.
Dovetail from PRX allows public media stations and content material producers to ship audio content material to audiences throughout all on-demand podcast platforms, present real-time viewers information and metrics, handle dynamic advert supply, determine underwriting and fundraising alternatives, and combine simply with current expertise.
“CPB is dedicated to investing progressive applied sciences that permit us to extend our attain and serve the American folks with the trusted content material essential to their lives now and for the long run,” stated Patricia Harrison, president and CEO of CPB.
“Public media wants its personal shared platforms and providers to make sure common and equitable entry, environment friendly operation, innovation, and collaboration,” stated Kerri Hoffman, CEOof PRX. “Dovetail from PRX is infrastructure that may join these dots. We’re proud to work in partnership with outstanding stations throughout the nation and are grateful to CPB for this assist.”
Dovetail, from PRX is used and trusted by PBS in addition to GBH, KERA, WUNC, WAMU, WWNO, and extra, together with Pulitzer Prize and Peabody Award-winning producers with podcasts and digital audio heard by hundreds of thousands.
About PRX
Celebrating greater than 20 years as a nonprofit public media firm, PRX works in partnership with main unbiased creators, organizations, and stations to carry significant audio storytelling into hundreds of thousands of listeners’ lives.
PRX is without doubt one of the world’s prime podcast publishers, public radio distributors, and audio producers, serving as an engine of innovation for public media and podcasting to assist form a vibrant future for artistic and journalistic audio.
Exhibits throughout PRX’s portfolio of broadcast productions, podcast companions, and its Radiotopia community have obtained recognition from the Peabody Awards, the Tribeca Pageant, the Worldwide Documentary Affiliation, the Nationwide Journal Awards, and the Pulitzer Prizes. Go to PRX.org for extra.
About CPB
The Company for Public Broadcasting, a non-public, nonprofit company licensed by Congress in 1967, is the steward of the federal authorities’s funding in public broadcasting. It helps assist the operations of greater than 1,500 regionally managed and operated public tv and radio stations nationwide.
CPB can also be the biggest single supply of funding for analysis, expertise and program improvement for public radio, tv, and associated on-line providers. For extra informati
