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Is Bryant Park Project dead?

I don't think it's that affiliates HATED the show, it's that they didn't want to go out on a limb and piss off their core with a show that would have replaced successful programming with untried.  Stations are risk-averse these days, with good reason.  stations dumping any part of ME or ATC, the most successful shows on pubradio, for BPP, would be possibly shooting themselves in the foot.  the only way I could see this happening is if 1-2 stations in a large market were already carrying ME/ATC  and another station with a younger music demo might pick it up.  otherwise fuggedaboutit.  NPR: a victim of their own success.... kind of. And yeah, the show is dead.
 
What puzzles me, though, is why they think it has "failed". from what I've read it was never meant to grab the usual ME/ATC demo, but was meant to attract new listeners with a multi-platform approach. it was always supposed to be a web based show that happened to also be on some radio stations, but now I'm understanding that not enough stations picked the show up.... ??? maybe someone more knowledgeable about it can help us out here...
 
Yeah, color me confused as well. Although there were some big shakeups in the hosting, with Luke leaving and Alison taking time off to have a baby, it seemed to still work, and it captured a decent audience online and on Sirius. If nothing else, I thought BPP was finally a way NPR could invest in their Sirius presence, and I think the Sirius audience appreciated it.

I guess the plan was to get a lot more of the stations that are duplicating ME in certain markets (where ME is already also on a higher rated and/or better signal NPR affiliate) to pick up BPP. But I guess none of them bit at the chance.
 
I agree with the general view here. Generally speaking, most people view commercial radio as afraid of change, afraid of risk, and alienating their core. Here's a situation where non-commercial radio is basically acting like commercial radio. If even non-commercial radio has feet of clay, what is the future of radio in general?
 
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