CLASSICAL MUSIC INITIATIVE SEEKS PARTICIPANTS FOR DYNAMIC WORKSHOP ON CLASSICAL MUSIC PRODUCTION AND PRESENTATION

Contact:  Andrea Matthews
(651) 290-1303
amatthews@americanpublicmedia.us
www.americanpublicmedia.us

CLASSICAL MUSIC INITIATIVE SEEKS PARTICIPANTS FOR DYNAMIC WORKSHOP ON CLASSICAL MUSIC PRODUCTION AND PRESENTATION

Radio professionals, classical music program producers and hosts,
arts professionals encouraged to apply for funded, intensive three-day workshop.

(St. Paul, Minn.) August 4, 2004 ó American Public Media (the national production and distribution division of Minnesota Public Radio) will host a three-day production workshop in October as part of its Classical Music Initiative (CMI), a multi-year project designed to develop and support the next generation of classical music programming for public radio. The CMI seeks 10 participants for this intensive workshop, which is designed to inspire producers and hosts, provide training in production and presentation, and foster a collaborative atmosphere for the cultivation of new ideas. A travel and lodging stipend will be provided. The CMI Production Workshop will be held October 20-22, 2004. The deadline for applications is September 3, 2004. Applications can be obtained at www.classicalmusicinitiative.org.

Applicants being sought include radio producers and hosts with a passion for classical music, arts professionals, and those with a vision to be the next generation of classical music radio and new media producers and hosts.

The CMI Production Workshop will feature keynote speaker Terry Teachout, a music and drama critic, arts journalist, author and blogger on ArtsJournal.com. Teachout was recently nominated by President Bush to serve on the National Council on the Arts, the final approval body for grants recommended by the National Endowment for the Arts' peer panels. A second keynote speaker, prominent in new technologies, has yet to be announced.

Workshop presentations will cover producing for radio and new media, and will be facilitated by American Public Media staff. Featured staff include Peabody Award-winning producers Tom Voegeli (American Mavericks, From the Top, Schickele Mix), Brian Newhouse (Minnesota Orchestra, Music@Menlo), and Preston Wright (American Mavericks, Music@Menlo). American Mavericks was produced by American Public Media in association with the San Francisco Symphony.

CMI Production Workshop attendees will also be invited to sit in on a recording session of Saint Paul Sunday, with host Bill McGlaughlin and the Borromeo String Quartet. The recording will take place in the renowned Maud Moon Weyerhaeuser Studio.

The goal of the CMI is to make a substantial investment in new program strategies, new ways to listen and new talent for classical music production.

American Public Media continues to accept proposals for new Classical Music Initiative projects. Proposals chosen for production will receive financial assistance and mentoring, with the completed programs to be broadcast on Minnesota Public Radio and made available to public radio stations nationwide by American Public Media. Proposal information is available at www.classicalmusicinitiative.org.

The Classical Music Initiative Production Workshop is supported, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts. Additional financial support is provided by Mr. and Mrs. Howard Solomon.

American Public Mediaô is the national production and distribution unit of Minnesota Public Radio. It is the nation's second-biggest producer of national public radio programs, reaching 11.9 million listeners nationwide each week. National programs include A Prairie Home Companion^®, Saint Paul Sunday^®, Marketplace^®, Sound Money^®, The Splendid Table^®, Being^® and special reports produced by its documentary unit, American RadioWorks^®. Minnesota Public Radio, along with its sister company Southern California Public Radio, belongs to a larger family of companies within American Public Media Group, a national nonprofit organization whose purpose is to develop resources, services and systems to support public media for public service. A complete list of stations, programs and additional services can be obtained at www.americanpublicmedia.us.

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Source: Data are copyright Arbitron, Inc. Arbitron data are estimates only.
Fall 2003

AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA TO SUPPLY PROGRAMMING TO NEW XM SATELLITE RADIO CHANNEL

Contact: Connie Molby
(651) 290-1113
cmolby@americanpublicmedia.us
www.americanpublicmedia.us

AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA TO SUPPLY PROGRAMMING TO NEW XM SATELLITE RADIO CHANNEL

( St. Paul, Minn. ) July 29, 2004 ó American Public Media, the nation's second-largest producer of national public radio programs, announced today that it has agreed to supply a package of programs to XM Public Radio, a new channel that will be launched by XM Satellite Radio on September 1.

The package will include the following American Public Media programs:

• Two Garrison Keillor productions ó The Writer's Almanac, a daily five-minute program of poetry and history, and Pop Vultures, a weekly half-hour program that focuses on the pop music scene.
• Being, a weekly hour-long program that is public radio's premiere national conversation about belief, meaning, ethics and ideas.
• Reports from American RadioWorks, American Public Media's national documentary unit.
• Marketplace Tech Report, a daily five-minute "journal of the digital age."
• American Mavericks, a 13-part series on musical innovation in the 20 th century, hosted by Suzanne Vega.
• Composers Datebook, a daily two-minute program about composers of the past and present.

American Public Media has also agreed to supply:

• Air Talk, a daily talk show produced by Los Angeles station KPCC, which is operated by Southern California Public Radio.
• As It Happens, a daily hour-long news and interview program produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation and distributed by American Public Media in the United States.

"American Public Media is committed to ensuring public radio listeners can enjoy their favorite programs on multiple media platforms, including terrestrial radio stations, the Internet and satellite radio, " said Jon McTaggart, American Public Media chief operating officer.  "With more than 2.1 million current subscribers, XM Radio is one of the nation's fastest-growing entertainment media. This relationship will offer an additional option for current listeners and present some of the best of public radio programming to new audiences."

The new XM channel will also include programming from Public Radio International and WBUR, including This American Life, Whad'Ya Know?, On Point and Only a Game. It will also feature a new morning interview program hosted by Bob Edwards.

Detailed information about XM Public Radio, including the programming schedule and show descriptions, will be available in mid-August on XM's Web site, www.xmradio.com/publicradio.

American Public Mediaô is the national production and distribution arm of Minnesota Public Radio. It is the nation's second-biggest producer of national public radio programs, reaching 11.9 million listeners nationwide each week. National programs include A Prairie Home Companion® , Saint Paul Sunday®, Marketplace®, Sound Money®, The Splendid Table®, Being™ and special reports produced by its national documentary unit, American RadioWorks ® . Minnesota Public Radio, along with its sister company Southern California Public Radio, belongs to a larger family of companies within American Public Media Group, a national nonprofit organization whose purpose is to develop resources, services and systems to support public media for public service. A complete list of stations, programs and additional services can be obtained at www.americanpublicradio.us.

XM is America's #1 satellite radio service with more than 2.1 million subscribers. Broadcasting live daily from studios in Washington, D.C., New York City and Nashville, Tenn., at the Country Music Hall of Fame, XM's 2004 lineup includes more than 120 digital channels offering music, sports, talk, comedy, children's and entertainment programming, as well as traffic and weather information for major metropolitan areas nationwide.