PUBLIC RADIO PROGRAMMING DIRECTORS ASSOCIATION

Learn more in a summary report about a recent meeting on Best Practices for Local Talk Shows recently convened by PRPD and the LNI.  Fourteen stations were part of a project that began the discussion, a first step to further defining issues and assisting stations to better serve listeners in this important public service. 

All Things Considered host, Robert Siegel, will provide the closing Benediction at this year's 21st annual Public Radio Programming Conference. Also speaking will be Mark Ramsey of Mercury Media Research and the Hear2.0 blog, discussing the Future of Audio.

This year we'll meet in glamorous Hollywood, California at the Renaissance Hotel from September 17-20. Pre-conference workshops being on the 14th and 15th.  Register early for the lowest Early Bird Rate.

PRPD sponsors the highly regarded annual intensive PD Workshop and BEYOND the Basics seminars. Both will be offered just before this year's conference.  This year we have also teamed with the Radio Research Consortium for a post-conference Using PPM workshop for stations whose markets will be switching to Arbitron's new Portable People Meter system in the next year.  PDs call these workshops vital to their continuing education.