Vivian Schiller announces One Big Online Platform for Public TV and Radio
Vivian Schiller of NPR trumpeted the new “one-stop” platform for your public media fix every day… I’m not sure how this will relate to individual station sites or feed visitors back to them… we’ll see. I don’t see myself going anywhere but NCPR for the In-box, nor anywhere but MLPBS for the latest Mountain Lake Journal from Thom Hallock… but I see how it all looks. I also notice that longtime PBS distributor NETA is not named as one of the collaborators, even though they distribute more regional and local TV content than APM or PBS.
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NEW YORK — The country’s five silos of public radio and television are spilling into each other with a joint program that will allow them – and eventually the public itself — to build apps, stations, websites and other media services combining audio, text and video content from every public radio and television outlet in the country.
NPR president and CEO Vivian Schiller appeared at Wired’s Disruptive by Design conference Monday morning to announce the new Public Media Platform, a partnership between American Public Media, National Public Radio, Public Broadcasting Services (PBS), Public Radio International and the Public Radio Exchange distribution network.
Over the next six months, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting will spend about $1 million to develop a working prototype of the platform, with NPR leading the charge
