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| Type | Public radio network |
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| Country | United States |
Broadcast area | Nationwide |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S. |
| History | |
| Founded | September 2003; 22 years ago (2003-09) |
| Coverage | |
| Availability | Global |
| Links | |
| Website | www |
ThePublic Radio Exchange (PRX) is a non-profit web-based platform fordigital distribution,review, and thelicensing of radio programs. The organization is the largest on-demand catalogue ofpublic radio programs available for broadcast and internet use.[1]
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The PRX site and services launched in September 2003 after a two-year planning, research, and development phase supported by theCorporation for Public Broadcasting, theNational Endowment for the Arts, and theFord Foundation. PRX received additional support from theNTIA Technology Opportunities Program, theMacArthur Foundation, theOpen Society Institute, theSurdna Foundation, and Google Grants. PRX offices are located inCambridge, Massachusetts.
On February 28, 2007, PRX and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced thePublic Radio Talent Quest.[2] It was an open search for new public radio talent, allowing producers to produce a pilot show for public radio. Finalists were to be chosen after a five-round competition voted on by fans, public radio professionals and celebrity judges. On May 14, the first round of submissions ended with 1,452 entries. As of May 22, 2007, the Public Radio Talent Quest site had over 14,600 registered users.
On April 9, 2008, the MacArthur Foundation selected PRX as one of its 2008 recipients of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. In late November of that year, PRX soft-launched PRX 3.0. The launch included their Remix Radio project, which provides a sampling of the content available for licensing on the site.
On January 1, 2009, PRX, Inc became a Massachusetts501c3 non-profit corporation. Previously PRX had been a project area of the Station Resource Group, a Maryland non-profit. On January 28, PRX Remix was added toXM Satellite Radio on channel 136. Later that year, on July 19, PRX launched the Public Radio Player 2.0, an iPhone app for public radio developed by PRX, NPR, and other public radio partners, and funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. On August 11, PRX was included in CPB's agreement with SoundExchange through 2015 as a covered public radio entity for music webcasting royalties.
In 2010 PRX launched two iPhone apps: theThis American Life app on February 1 and the WBUR Boston app on July 7. That same year, PRX won aPeabody Award forThe Moth Radio Hour.[3] PRX was also announced as a winner of the 2010 Knight News Challenge for Story Exchange, a crowdfunding journalism project, on June 16. On September 8, 2010, PRX announced $2.7M in new funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Ford Foundation.
On December 8, 2011, PRX announced $2.5M in funding from Knight Foundation to create the Public Media Accelerator. In May 2014, PRX received a Peabody Award for theReveal show "The VA's Opiate Overload".[4]
On August 15, 2018, PRX andPublic Radio International announced they would merge, though both networks would maintain separate identities and programming.[5][6] The PRI brand was retired the following year.
Formerly known as Public Radio Remix. As of 2025, one radio station,WREM inCanton, New York, airs a full-time schedule of programming from PRX, branded asPublic Radio Remix.[7] (A second,KPBZ inSpokane, Washington, formerly did until switching to aJazz format) Both stations are owned by the same organizations as their markets' primaryNational Public Radio affiliates. PRX Remix also airs onSirius XM Channel 123.
Several other public radio stations air some, but not all, Public Radio Exchange programming in their schedules.
On May 22, 2007, PRX had 12,167 available radio pieces, 28,149 members, including 445 radio stations,[8] and 2,782 individual producers.[9]
Regular series distributed by PRX include:[10]
| Year | Award | Category | Nominee(s) | Result | Ref. |
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| 2022 | Peabody Awards | Podcast & Radio | Kabul Falling | Nominated | [13] |
Public Radio International and PRX will merge under an unusual arrangement that allows both to maintain separate identities and program portfolios.
Last week, the two public radio experimenters announced they would merge.
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