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Ron Perrone replied to Marian Peterson's discussion 'Dismayed'

Maybe we smell a paradigm shift and just can't place the odor? Maybe if the programming needed to keep a station on the air seems to be long in the tooth, maybe the audience not tuning in sees the station or even the medium the same way.

October 6

Ron Perrone replied to Mark Jeffries's discussion 'Is It Time to Kick Out Andre Reiu?'

OK....True. But maybe we should formulate the argument another way. Is it the role of public broadcasting to spoon feed soft entertainment to the public because they were raised on it, are used to it? Public Broadcasting used to be all about NOT d...

October 6

Ron Perrone replied to Mark Jeffries's discussion 'Is It Time to Kick Out Andre Reiu?'

YES! YES! Please! Please!

October 6

Ron Perrone replied to Karen Everhart's discussion 'Where now for pubradio's push to engage new listeners?'

Yup and Amen to getting back to the people. Throughout my 30 year career (I am now 60) as a musician I have maintained active dialogues with much younger artists who are camping outside the borders of the main stream. They distrust all media. On t...

April 8

Ron Perrone replied to Michael Arnold's discussion 'What can public radio do to diversify its audience?'

Truly, traditional journalism is in decline. The younger audiences thumb twiddle their info. For some its a convenient shortcut in a hurried world. For others its a reflection of their linguistic abilities as taught to them by their elders. Set ag...

April 7

Ron Perrone replied to Will Wright's discussion 'Is the lack of voices and sensibilities of color real or a perception/public relations crisis or both?!'

Beats me. But I have a feeling that a good deal of it is because of the structure of the public broadcasting system. It varies insanely from state to state and varies over time. To wit, my wife and I biannually travel to North Carolina from our ho...

April 7

Ron Perrone is now a member of DirectCurrent

Welcome Them!

April 7