blog post:<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\nWe\u2019re leaving our distributor Public Radio International. What this means for listeners is ... nothing! We\u2019ll continue to make our radio show and podcast. The same public radio stations will continue to broadcast it. They just won\u2019t be getting it through PRI.<\/em><\/p>\nPRI has been a great partner. When we signed up with them in 1997, we were already on over a hundred public radio stations. It\u2019d taken us a year to get that many. In three months, PRI doubled the number. A miracle. Over the years since, they built that number to 587 stations.<\/em><\/p>\nBut looking at where PRI is now pushing its business and where we're growing \u2013 especially on the digital side of things, which we\u2019ve always done without PRI \u2013 both we and our colleagues at PRI came to the same conclusion: to go our separate ways.<\/em><\/p>\nMost listeners I meet seem utterly unaware of who our distributor is, or they think \u2013 mistakenly \u2013 that we\u2019re part of NPR. NPR is the company that puts out Morning Edition and All Things Considered and many fine programs. But there are several other companies that distribute public radio shows around the country. Local public radio stations get shows from all of them.<\/em><\/p>\nWe\u2019ll announce sometime soon what our new plan is to distribute the show to radio stations.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just as Ira Glass promised, it didn\u2019t take long for \u201cThis American Life\u201d to land a new distributor. Sources tell me it\u2019s going from PRI to PRX. After 17 years with Public Radio International, the award-winning weekly radio program announced Thursday that it was severing ties with the Minneapolis-based outfit that oversees sales, marketing and... Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2777"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2784,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2777\/revisions\/2784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertfeder.dailyherald.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}