Three good pieces of note that I’m finally getting to this evening. First up (blogged earlier by Todd Mundt) is a take on the Bryant Park Project collapse from someone else that’s young and actually creating public radio programming. Only in this case it’s done on a small scale and is therefore sustainable. The Sound…
Well, today is the first Monday without the Bryant Park Project since they went on the air last fall. Last Friday they posted this tongue-in-cheek end-of-show video: http://static.ning.com/BPPDiner/widgets/video/flvplayer/flvplayer.swf?v=3.4.4%3A6369 Find more videos like this on The BPP Diner BPP lovers can continue to meet on a new social networking site here, kindly started by BPP listener…
When the announcement went out about the cancellation of the Bryant Park Project, the comments on the NPR site numbered in the hundreds. The counts I saw stopped around 600, yet there may be more (who wants to count?). Now the comments are piling up in reaction to interim CEO Dennis Haarsager’s posting about the…
Well, I guess the NPR shoe I’d been warned about has dropped, with respect to the cancellation of BPP. It was not a satisfying thud. The comments on the BPP blog site, reacting to the memo, have begun rolling in. They are not, one would expect, positive. There’s some respectful language in there, but the…
Earlier this week I was advised privately to wait for an announcement from NPR about BPP — without any hint of what said announcement might be — and I’m still waiting. I’d love to hear NPR announce a bold new plan to take the BPP straight to the web and change it up somehow. If…
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