88.7 WREM - PRX

[Tincap]

North Country Public Radio has launched WREM, broadcasting on 88.7 out of Canton NY, as of Monday May 16th.

This is the 2nd land based station to be carrying NPR's 'PRX' stream, which is also carried by Spokane's KPBZ (also on XM). PRX is aimed at a younger demographic than its mainstream service.

Stream can be found here ~> http://publicradioremix.org/

~BG

 

[fybush]

Just as a point of clarification...NPR and PRX are separate entities. PRX is the "Public Radio Exchange," designed as a separate distribution path for small public radio producers who want to get their material heard. What WREM and KPBZ are running is called "Public Radio Remix," and it's a service of PRX that offers a 24-hour stream of PRX content. It has nothing to do with NPR.

 

[Tincap]

Just as a point of clarification...NPR and PRX are separate entities. PRX is the "Public Radio Exchange," designed as a separate distribution path for small public radio producers who want to get their material heard. What WREM and KPBZ are running is called "Public Radio Remix," and it's a service of PRX that offers a 24-hour stream of PRX content. It has nothing to do with NPR.

Thanks for the clarification, Scott.

America's national public radio service(s) certainly does differ than our CBC! Will PRX share any content with NPR or PRI, or are these entities entirely unrelated?

~BG

 

[fybush]

http://www.prx.org/about-us/what-is-prx

PRX is completely independent from NPR, as are PRI and APM. The US public broadcasting system was designed from the start to be very decentralized; it's unique in that respect among public broadcasting entities around the world.

 

[butlerguy03]

Any idea about subscriber fee for running PRX? Seems like good filler for high school stations.

 

[Ai4i]

Channel 123 goes in and out of being one of my XM presets.