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For Stations – Additional Information

Sign up for “Advance Show Alerts”

This exclusive email for stations comes out the week before each program’s release date, and includes a full show description, guest contact infoand a link to a broadcast-quality audio file of the a 59-second promo. Advance Show Alerts help you promote Making Contact on your station and help build complimentary programming around it. To sign up, please contact Distribution.

Programming Tips

How some stations use Making Contact:

Our programs are not breaking news, but long-term resonating issues that local producers can build shows around at any time.

Generally, our programs have a three-month shelf life, but our documentaries are longer-lived, and some are evergreen. This, and the fact that our programs are half-hour in length, allows us to fit in well with many programming structures:

  • As a springboard for in-studio discussions with community groups.
  • To complement other half-hour shows, such as Counterspin, Left, Right and Center, or your own locally produced news or public affairs programs.
  • To provide a broad range of views and interesting topics for listeners.
  • As part of a themed programming block, and/or to help commemorate African-American History Month, Women’s History Month, Labor Day and other dates of significance.

 

Distribution Options

  • Download programs and promos each week – our website is updated every Wednesday by 6:30am GMT (Tuesday 10:30pm PST). Our homepage features the current week’s show at the top, other recent shows are below it. Click through the appropriate link to get to that program’s permanent page.  The file compression is 11:1 at 44100 Hz, and retains quality, consistent sound level and range of frequencies.
  • Sign up for “Making Contact – Advance show alerts” emailsEach Tuesday evening after the website update, we send out the new show’s description, including links to audio files and guest contact info – sign up here.
  • Download from Public Radio Exchange (PRX)
  • Download from Audioport (Pacifica)

National Radio Project is committed to the highest quality customer service possible. Get download help – please contact Distribution with your questions or problems.