Hi PRX producer,
Merry PRXmas! We leave 2009 knowing that we have more members and more great content than ever — and we recently surpassed over $1 million in royalty payments to producers.
Congrats to all of you who have sold your work! We hope to send you another million, and we know stations are becoming more open to unique content from independent producers.
Stay tuned for our list of 2009′s most licensed, most listened-to and most “favorited” PRX pieces and producers — the Zeitfunk Awards. (Last year’s winners.)
Thank you for being a part of our journey to reshape public radio. Onward to 2010!
-Genevieve
Member Support &
Editorial Associate
PRX News & Tips
Help desk limited over the holidays
The help desk elves will be away for the holidays and answering only urgent issues from Dec. 22 to Jan. 4. Email issues to prxhelp[at]prx[dot]org.
You’re in the money
Fourth quarter ’09 royalties will be paid in early January. Royalties are taxable income and you will receive a 1099 in January, too. Please make sure PRX has your correct address and tax ID on file; send both to kerri[at]prx[dot]org.
Coming soon: carriage spreadsheets
PRX 3.10 will include downloadable CSV files of carriage information that you can use in Excel.
Don’t get coal in your PRX stocking
Fill out your profile! Stations won’t buy a piece if they don’t know anything about who produced it. Your profile has space for experience, awards, outlets on which your work has previously aired, etc. Brag a little!
An Interviewer’s Resource
Our friends at Virtuoso Voices have put together Interviewing Performing Artists…and Others: A Practical Guide and are happy to share this fantastic resource as a PDF.
They gathered interview tips from 25 radio professionals including hosts Robert Siegel and Kurt Andersen, plus successful indie producers like PRX members Paul Ingles and Aaron Henkin.
Here’s an excerpt:
“Think about the order of your questions as carefully as you think about the questions
themselves…The order of your questions should craft a narrative arc, and you can save yourself a lot of post-interview slicing and dicing if you
spend some extra prep time beforehand.” – Aaron Henkin, creator/host of Tapestry of the Times
Indie Producers at Home on KUT
O’Dark 30 is an exciting new addition to KUT’s late-night schedule — an exploration of the world of independent audio production. Every Monday from 12-3 a.m., the Austin station will play a little bit of everything from some of public radio’s best producers, and they’re buying a ton of indie content right from PRX.
Not in Austin? Not up that late? Listen online!
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