what if the pope... blasted cigs

Honestly, the fact that my feed isn't all Young Pope memes rn proves how much the discourse has declined over the past decade

Felt the same way but I think that stuff is pretty much plug and play luckily and all the work/money from the last few years seemingly made this one pretty seamless and easy

If you did automatic deposit, it should be quick. Mine was the fastest it’s ever been- barely a week

My last piece of the year was a really wild story of Sitka, AK losing basically all cell and internet for two full weeks and how KCAW (aka Raven Radio) kept broadcasting through it all and became the center of the town's community in this uniquely rural radio crisis ruralpublic.org/blog-and-new...

Last few noncomMUSIC Alliance posts led up to Public Radio Music Day, celebrating its 5th year in Oct. Been with it from the start & few took the themes as much to heart as WTMD did this year, ending with a nationwide broadcast of now hometown musician Bartees Strange noncommusic.org/stories/wtmd...

There are plenty of public media orgs with small teams but few are a staff of one and fewer are as delightful as "Alaska Radio Nerd" Paul Walker at KSKO. As its sole full timer, they repeat out to Interior Alaska towns, some of which are only accessible via prop plane ruralpublic.org/blog-and-new...

Resort/vacation areas breed fascinating art scenes, which Interlochen Public Radio does up in northern Michigan, collaborating with its licensee, Interlochen Center for the Arts, to actually connect and build networks for classical musicians in the surrounding areas noncommusic.org/stories/inte...

@ktoopublicmedia.bsky.social turned 50 this year and had an amazing event to celebrate, which was my story going into the interview, but it was their considerate focus on Native Alaskan voices, stories, music, and language that made them really stand out to me ruralpublic.org/blog-and-new...

I will try! In writing all these up, I'm sad how few are on the platform

On the next A Day In The Life, we got a big one: Nico Leone the president & CEO of KERA, North Texas' massively growing org including the eponymous news station, AAA mainstay KXT, plus recently pulling in classical WRR & the local newspaper Denton Record-Chronicle noncommusic.org/stories/day-...

After so many stories, I realized I've never talked to an Alabama station. Wanting to heard more about my home state, we reached out WJAB, a jazz station at an HCBU in the quickly growing city of Huntsville about what it means to represent jazz in such a community noncommusic.org/stories/wjab...

We picked back up our A Day In The Life series with the venerable Jordan Lee, the PD (and more) of @radiomilwaukee.bsky.social who came prepared by literally walking me through his actual schedule, wherein I got a glimpse seeing how their stations get so much done noncommusic.org/stories/day-...

The 1st of a series of Alaska-focused stories now under the banner of The United States of Rural Radio, I talked to Alaska Public Radio & KSTK about past, present, and future of statewide & cross-station collaborations, especially in how they support local journalism ruralpublic.org/blog-and-new...

West Virginia Public Broadcasting's Mountain Stage is one of those landmark @nprmusic.bsky.social distributed shows and I talked to its team & Larry Groce, the co-founder and original host about its backstory and what it means for WV to be broadcast across the country noncommusic.org/stories/moun...

After a gobsmacking decade away from it, I returned to WXPN's NON-COMMvention, one of my favorite music events. Friends, stations, and radio listeners all getting to talk about the future of the format and listen to amazing artists is a true delight I've missed noncommusic.org/stories/nonc...

Checked out Marfa Public Radio and hear what it means not just to represent Texas' Big Bend community with its history but a place where a grocery store, let alone a local news source, can be hours away. Being in the desert doesn't mean you have to be a news desert! ruralpublic.org/blog-and-new...