One, the payment system for produced programs is a reasonably good arrangement for a producer — better than a producer having to privately work out with each station how the producer is going to get a payment for a program pulled from PRSS (which has no on-line payment system as does PRX with its pre-paid points).

Secondly, the PRX archive worked out very well for me in at least one instance. In the year my father died I was a little down and didn’t produce anything but got a nice surprise in finding that stations in Alaska and in the Minnesota system had purchased a one-hour program for Thanksgiving Day that I did in Hawaii with Don Ho on Thanksgiving just a few months before he died.

The program featured Don Ho in the last public radio interview or program he granted before he died. There was some brief interplay between Mr. Ho and my dad in the show with lots of little-known Thanksgiving historical facts (garnered by long and tedious hours of research). It was very special to me that this program wound up getting some good airing.

And, the hats-off-to-PRX point on this second item is this. I had forgotten about that Don Ho program being out there on PRX. And being that last year was an off-year for me with the death of my dad, I didn’t pitch or promote the program. The fact that a network of stations were able to just find the program on their own on PRX and then licensed it was one whale of a nice surprise for a guy to receive while long mourning the loss of the best father I ever had. So, my hat’s off to PRX and a big thanks.

Regards,
Stephen
SLG@PRWW.org
http://www.PRWW.org
http://www.BigBandsAlive.com

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