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An homage to Kendall Wild, the former managing editor of the Rutland Herald during the tumultuous 1960s and 1970s. He was eccentric, competitive, a...
- Added: Apr 23, 2015
- Length: 25:45
Online crafty marketplace Etsy went public in April 2015. What does that mean for the makers who sell their goods on the site?
- Added: Apr 22, 2015
- Length: 28:50
Some people make college sound so hard and some make it sound like fun, but what is it really? We have two students who breaks down the generalizat...
- Added: Apr 14, 2015
- Length: 17:00
Vision Maker Media Assistant Director George Lee (Navajo) speaks with filmmaker Toby McLeod about his upcoming series Standing on Sacred Ground
- Added: Apr 01, 2015
- Length: 21:48
You've got to be one brave businessperson to realize your startup is heading in the wrong direction, and do something about it. This week, we talk ...
- Added: Mar 23, 2015
- Length: 05:27
The downtown movie theater has long been a fixture of small town Minnesota. But with advent of multiplexes, DVDs and on-demand viewing, small town ...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Mar 20, 2015
- Length: 04:57
- Purchases: 1
Brief excerpt of a 4.5 hour conversation had with Albert Maysles before our interview for the radio documentary I'm producing, "The Night Before Al...
- Added: Mar 09, 2015
- Length: 05:44
Understanding your audience goes deeper than simply asking, "Do you like my idea?" This week, we talk about how to figure out what it is that your ...
- Added: Mar 08, 2015
- Length: 04:49
There weren’t a lot of female directors during the Golden Age of Radio. Nila Mack was one of the few who earned herself an office on the 14th floo...
Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, WABE, and PRX Remix
- Added: Mar 05, 2015
- Length: 06:37
- Purchases: 4
Sam Schwartz is known worldwide as Gridlock Sam, a nickname the media gave him for coining the term, Gridlock. As New York City's traffic commissio...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 30:05
Many of the historic Art Deco movie theaters you see throughout Minnesota can be attributed to one man, Jack Liebenberg. KFAI's Ryan Dawes speaks w...
- Added: Feb 24, 2015
- Length: 04:33
This week on Inside Tow-Knight: Context, and why it's crucial to understand your audience.
- Added: Feb 16, 2015
- Length: 06:23
The famous duo of radio, television and film – George Burns and Gracie Allen – were married for 38 years. We look back at how their relationship a...
Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and PRX Remix
- Added: Feb 09, 2015
- Length: 11:51
- Purchases: 3
Commentary by Director Sasha Jenkins of "Fresh Dressed"
- Added: Jan 23, 2015
- Length: 03:56
- Added: Jan 09, 2015
- Length: 14:13
- Purchases: 1
The third Simmer episode features the first part of the documentary "Telling Our Own Stories" introduced by anecdotes about democracy from Seidl's ...
- Added: Jan 04, 2015
- Length: 30:00
Recently, Sony was hacked, and because of this hack and the ensuing threats that followed, the company decided not to widely release their film “Th...
Bought by KSRQ
- Added: Jan 02, 2015
- Length: 26:39
- Purchases: 1
In this episode presented by our friends at Craft Beer Cellar, host Mike O’Toole visits Tony Magee, founder and CEO of Lagunitas. They discuss how ...
- Added: Dec 09, 2014
- Length: 39:03
In 1999, most of America’s tech hysteria centered around Y2K. But at that same time, a teenager in Canada was messing around in chat rooms, meeting...
- Added: Dec 08, 2014
- Length: 16:26
- Purchases: 2
Radio reached its height of popularity during World War II. But the war also ushered in its greatest competitor - television.
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WMMT, and WXAV 88.3FM Chicago
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 04:59
- Purchases: 3
Rod Serling is know for his television series "The Twilight Zone," but he got his start writing radio dramas at WNYC in the summer of 1946. Listen ...
Bought by WMMT, KSUT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, Troy Public Radio, and PRX Remix
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 05:53
- Purchases: 5
Ora Nichols lead the sound effects team that brought "War of the Worlds" to life on the radio. That doesn't mean she got along with Orson Wells. Me...
Bought by WMMT, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, and Troy Public Radio
- Added: Dec 01, 2014
- Length: 04:41
- Purchases: 3
In the early 1970s, radio host and oral historian Studs Terkel went around the country interviewing people about their jobs. Studs recorded more th...
Bought by KBCS 91.3 FM Community Radio, WXAV 88.3FM Chicago, KALW, Spokane Public Radio, KPTZ, Port Townsend, WA and more
- Added: Nov 18, 2014
- Length: 10:13
- Purchases: 10
Fewer Americans are watching movies in theaters—ticket sales fell by 11 percent between 2004 and 2013. For those attending the cinema, just about e...
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 03:46
It seems odd that a large corporation would launch a campaign that’s neither proprietary nor tightly controlled. So when American Express — a not-s...
- Added: Nov 06, 2014
- Length: 31:16
