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Zeitfunk

Zeit [tsait] F- -en time
Funk [fUηk] M- no pl radio, wireless

The Oxford-Duden German Dictionary

You can look at PRX in any number of ways; zeitfunk is where we show you what we're finding. It's the end result of a lot of spreadsheeting. It's like a zeitgeist.

Only ours is funkier.

The Zeitfunk Awards Ceremony

Genevieve, 04/04/08

It's time for the annual Zeitfunk Awards Ceremony! Head over to the ceremony now to see fun pictures of PRX-ers and to read their acceptance quotes.

Image by Genevieve

See all the 2007 Zeitfunk winners here.

Were you a first-place winner but didn't submit your picture or quote? Send them along to help@prx.org!

The Zeitfunk results are in! 2007 was a truly exciting year for PRX. More pieces were licensed by stations in 2007 than any previous year: over 8,000. PRX attracted 14,079 new members, and racked up over 1,000 new reviews.

Thousands of public radio fans helped us find three of the "hostiest" new talents through the Public Radio Talent Quest. And we re-launched the Generation PRX site so it's more interactive and encourages social networking among the dozens of youth radio groups already participating.

Image by Kaibara87

Congratulate our 2007 Zeitfunk winners. Scroll down to view more results in each category.

And, don't miss the most popular piece lengths, "Favoriting" facts, weird Google searches, state and country membership stats, or staff yearbook awards and haikus!

The Hostiest Public Radio Talent Quest Contestants
Al Letson, Glynn Washington, and Rebecca Watson

Most Licensed Producer
Paul Ingles
(more in this category...)

Most Licensed Producer Group
Listener Directed Productions
(more in this category...)

Most Licensed Station
WXPN
(more in this category...)

Most Licensed Piece
The Two Sides of Sgt. Pepper: An Honest Appraisal from Paul Ingles
(more in this category...)

Most Licensed Series
Compact Discoveries from Fred Flaxman
(more in this category...)

Station that Licensed the Most Pieces
KXOT
(more in this category...)

Most Previewed Piece
My Lobotomy from Sound Portraits
(more in this category ...)

Most Active Reviewer
James Reiss
(more in this category...)

Most Reviewed Piece
The Latvala Files: Hangin' Out in the Vault from Justin Grotelueschen
(more in this category...)

Most Reviewed Youth-Produced Piece
Being Black from Radio Rookies
(more in this category...)

Most Licensed Youth Piece
The Migration Project: A Youth Radio Special from KUOW and Generation PRX
(more in this category...)

Most Popular Fundraising Piece
The Invisible Infrastructure of Radio from WNYC
(more in this category...)

Top Debut Indie
William Zukof/Western Wind
(more in this category...)

Most "Favorited" Piece
The Emergence of Joni Mitchell from PRI and Paul Ingles
(more in this category...)

The first-place winners will receive trophies in the mail. We'll have a virtual award ceremony with pictures coming soon!

Complete Zeitfunk 2007 Results

Some observations: As with last year, the top three or so in each category were very clear winners; after that, we had many tied places. Below you will see the top ten winners listed in most categories. Some categories only have two, three, or five places. We did this to accomodate the large gaps after clear winners, when there were more than four users or pieces tied for the same place.

We also added a few new categories this year: Most Favorited Pieces, Most Reviewed Youth-Produced Pieces, and Top Debut Indies. The Top Debut Indies are the producers and producer groups who joined PRX in 2007 and had the most pieces licensed.

The Hostiest Public Radio Talent Quest Contestants

Genevieve, 01/18/08

Al Letson
Glynn Washington
Rebecca Watson

2007 Most Licensed Producers

Genevieve, 01/18/08

1. Paul Ingles
2. Richard Paul
3. Joe Bevilacqua
4. David Freudberg
5. Rachel Anne Goodman
6. Reese Erlich
7. Eric V. Tait, Jr.
8. Rebecca Sheir
9. Tie: Jay Allison and Joseph Dougherty
10. Tie: Charles Lane and Dmae Roberts

2007 Most Licensed Producer Groups

Genevieve, 01/18/08

1. Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
2. Vinyl Cafe
3. This I Believe
4. 800 lb. Productions
5. LA Theatre Works
6. Joyride Media
7. Hearing Voices
8. War News Radio
9. World Vision Report
10. SoundPrint

2007 Most Licensed Stations

Genevieve, 01/18/08

1. WXPN
2. WNYC
3. KUOW
4. WMNF
5. WFUV
6. Kansas Public Radio
7. WGUC
8. WFYI
9. New Hampshire Public Radio
10. WILL

2007 Most Licensed Pieces

Genevieve, 01/18/08

1. The Two Sides of Sgt. Pepper: An Honest Appraisal from Paul Ingles
2. For the Fallen Memorial Day Special from Hearing Voices
3. After Oil from WFYI
4. Stories from the Heart of the Land I -- Portraits in Landscapes from Atlantic Public Media
5. New Orleans Christmas from Putumayo World Music

2007 Most Licensed Series

Genevieve, 01/18/08

1. Compact Discoveries from Fred Flaxman
2. Vinyl Cafe from Vinyl Cafe
3. Blues File from WXPN and Jonny Meister
4. Virtuoso Voices from Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
5. 11 Central Ave from 800 lb. Productions
6. This I Believe from This I Believe
7. Radio Lab from WNYC
8. The Play's the Thing from LA Theatre Works
9. Hearing Voices Specials from Hearing Voices
10. The Bluegrass Review from Philip Nusbaum

2007 Stations that Licensed the Most Pieces

Genevieve, 01/18/08

1. KXOT
2. KUOW
3. WXLV
4. WBEZ
5. WFCR
6. KZYX
7. WITF
8. WAMC
9. WSNC
10. KJZZ

2007 Most Previewed Pieces

Genevieve, 01/18/08

1. My Lobotomy from Sound Portraits
2. A Shortcut Through 2006 from Peter Bochan
3. Nina Simone: Forever Young, Gifted & Black from Joyride Media
4. The Big Payback: A Tribute to James Brown from Peter Bochan
5. Transformations from Footlight Parade
6. Insomnia from Billy Senese
7. Tie: Ani DiFranco Live from Joe's Pub from WFUV and Kasper Hauser: Phone Call to the 14th Century from Jesse Thorn
8. La Pianista Apasionada from WFMT
9. Tie: Will Nebraska Skate Parks Reopen? from Deborah Van Fleet and Imperial Washington from American RadioWorks
10. Blues & Beyond #26: James Brown, Bluesman from WXPN

2007 Most Active Reviewers

Genevieve, 01/18/08

1. James Reiss
2. Hans Anderson
3. Rene O'Deay
4. Tie: David Weinberg and Connie Ott
5. Jenny Asarnow

2007 Most Reviewed Pieces

Genevieve, 01/18/08

1. The Latvala Files: Hangin' Out in the Vault from Justin Grotelueschen
2. Tie: For Kindred Spirits from Paul Messing and Curiosity Aroused Pilot from Rebecca Watson
3. Tie: Kasper Hauser: Phone Call to the 14th Century from Jesse Thorn and Big Bands, Blues and Ballads Too from Gano and Beverly Evans

2007 Most Reviewed Youth-Produced Pieces

Genevieve, 01/18/08

1. Being Black from Radio Rookies
2. Tie: Party Chinese People from Curie Youth Radio and My Name is Ryan from Blunt Youth Radio Project.

2007 Most Licensed Youth Pieces

Genevieve, 01/18/08

1. The Migration Project: A Youth Radio Special from KUOW and Generation PRX
2. Getting Raised from KUOW
3. Who Killed Santa Claus for You? from Curie Youth Radio

2007 Most Popular Fundraising Pieces

Genevieve, 01/18/08

1. Support Your Public Radio Family from WNYC
2.The Invisible Infrastructure of Radio from WNYC
3. Tie: Virtuoso Voices: Produced Funders -- Sharon Isbin (You're in Touch) and Virtuoso Voices: Produced Funders -- Evelyn Glennie (Daily Dose) from Listener Directed Productions, Inc.

2007 Top Debut Indies

Genevieve, 01/18/08

1. William Zukof/Western Wind
2. Icebox Radio Theater
3. Charles Schultz
4. Craig Wichman
5. Jonah Engle

2007 Most "Favorited" Pieces

Genevieve, 01/18/08

1. The Emergence of Joni Mitchell from Public Radio International and Paul Ingles (13 Favorites)
2. Dylan: Blowin' in the Wind from Joyride Media (11 Favorites)
3. The Two Sides of Sgt. Pepper: An Honest Appraisal from Paul Ingles (9 Favorites)

2007 Ten Most Popular Piece Lengths

Genevieve, 01/18/08

1. 55+ to 60 min. (7,627 pieces)
2. 0+ to 5 min. (5,688 pieces)
3. 5+ to 10 min. (2384 pieces)
4. 25+ to 30 min. (2311 pieces)
5. 50+ to 55 min. (1539 pieces)
6. 115+ to 120 min. (854 pieces)
7. 10+ to 15 min. (653 pieces)
8. 60+ to 65 min. (548 pieces)
9. 15+ to 20 min. (212 pieces)
10. 20+ to 25 min. (185 pieces)

Fun "Favoriting" Facts

Genevieve, 01/18/08

As of February 1, 2008...

685 users have at least one Favorite:
501 users have 1 Favorite
69 users have 2 Favorites
38 users have 3 Favorites
24 users have 4 Favorites
37 users have 5-9 Favorites
16 users have 10+ Favorites

1139 pieces are a Favorite at least once:
912 pieces have 1 user
145 pieces have 2 users
40 pieces have 3 users
15 pieces have 4 users
23 pieces have 5-9 users
2 pieces have 10+ users

Weird Google Searches

Genevieve, 01/18/08

PRX is the number-1 result of these actual Google searches (as of December 2007):
1. Blood pressure chair
2. Teapot lids
3. Italian temper
4. How to insult a man
5. Naked Thanksgiving

Membership by State

Genevieve, 01/18/08

1. California (3742 members)
2. New York (2724 members)
3. Illinois (1527 members)
4. Massachusetts (1416 members)
5. Texas (1285 members)
6. Washington (1091 members)
7. Florida (893 members)
8. Pennsylvania (824 members)
9. Ohio (745 members)
10. Virginia (695 members)

Non-Domestic Membership by Country

Genevieve, 01/18/08

1. Canada (2953 members)
2. United Kingdom (1859 members)
3. Australia (607 members)
4. Germany (318 members)
5. United States Minor Outlying Islands (248 members)
6. Netherlands (229 members)
7. Ireland (172 members)
8. Sweden (168 members)
9. New Zealand (159 members)
10. Philippines (138 members)

2007 PRX Staff Yearbook Awards

Genevieve, 01/18/08

PRX employee:
. . . with the weirdest pets: Jake
. . . who survived the most interviews: Genevieve
. . . with all the bank: Kerri
. . . who is the best tap dancer: Matt
. . . who knows the most about Mormon underwear: Nathan
. . . whose children have written the most songs about PRX: Robert
. . . who can save the "Internets" with duct tape and a wire hanger: Andrew
. . . with the cutest home-office coworker: Adrianne
. . . who needs to catch up the most on "Lost": Dan
. . . with hair to rival John Edwards: John
. . . whose dog likes to join in on conference calls: Jones

PRX Haikus by John Barth

Genevieve, 01/18/08

Mouse clicks like hammers
Both building and cracking
Creating the new.

Small company seeks
Cheap lease, nice kitchen and deck
Five landlords hate us.

Where is Jake today?
He and Halley might appear
I’m feeling lucky

Milestones to 3-O
Jump the many lillypads
The frog knows Drupal.

John is on the phone
He says his email is gone
Where’s my burrito?

Four years building this
Radio is our business
Must I say ‘newshole?’

PRXers, past and present

Thanks, 2007 Zeitfunk winners, for all your hard work!

The Zeitfunk Awards Ceremony

Adrianne, 04/04/07

In case you missed it on our home page, the Zeitfunk Awards Ceremony pictures are up. Check out the acceptance speeches and images of the winners! (To further encourage you, some of the pictures have been called "a little trippy.")

Image by Jay Morrison

Check out all the 2006 Zeitfunk winners here.

Forgot to send in your picture and speech? I guess we can still include you, if you insist. Send 'em our way at info@prx.org.

Zeitfunk 2006

Adrianne, 01/19/07

2006 was PRX's third full year of operation, and the biggest bestest one yet. All told over 6,600 pieces were licensed by over 250 stations and a number of podcasts and digital distributors.

So our annual tradition is to look back at the year and tally up the numbers and highlights, and hand out the much-anticipated Zeitfunk awards.

Who got the most licenses? Who got the most listens? Who got the most reviews, who did the most reviewing? After a couple weeks of mathin' and calculatin', we've got the answers and then some.

Image by H駘鈩e Desplechin

Ladies and Gentlemen, the Zeitfunk results for 2006. Scroll down for more results.

Most Licensed Producer
Fred Flaxman
(more in this category...)
Most Licensed Producer Group
PRI
(more in this category...)

Most Licensed Station
WXPN
(more in this category...)

Most Licensed Piece
CROSSING BORDERS Special from HearingVoices
(more in this category...)

Most Licensed Series
Compact Discoveries from Fred Flaxman
(more in this category...)

Most Previewed Piece
Trey Anastasio Live from Tres Hombres Productions
(more in this category ...)

Most Active Reviewer
Todd Melby
(more in this category...)

Most Active Youth Reviewer
Caitlin Garing
(more in this category...)

Most Reviewed Piece
That's My Song: Aliens Exist from outLoud Radio
(more in this category...)

Most Licensed Youth Piece
Tie: Katrina Photojournalist John McCusker from Adeline Goss, BSR and The Cost of War from S. Spencer Scott, Blunt Youth Radio Project
(more in this category...)

Most Popular Fundraising Piece
Fundraising Funnies II from WFIU
(more in this category...)

Some observations: The majority of the pieces that ranked high in quantity of reviews were youth pieces, yet youth members scored much lower in the reviews written per-person tabulation. Perhaps this is another example of the notoriously hairy long tail? Or perhaps youth pieces are generating more discussion amongst all members.

Most of the time, the only clear results were the first two to three placements: after that, the majority were tied for fourth or fifth places. (We gave lists of five, ten or fifteen anyway -- you can view actual numbers of licenses and reviews by clicking on the piece/producer/group's link.)

Also, a "hit" on PRX is a piece that gets licensed dozens, not hundreds or thousands, of times. This is mainly because different stations are finding different localized reasons for finding and using a piece at various times during the year, unlike a single major show or special that simultaneously airs on a hundred stations or more. In aggregate all of these mini-hits translate into a huge amount of activity ultimately reaching hundreds of thousands of listeners across the country.

Congratulations, Zeitfunk winners of 2006!

The trophies for first-place winners are in the mail; we may be needing your pictoral help for the "award ceremony" coming up soon. Stay tuned, and thanks for all your hard work!

2006 Most-Licensed Piece Lengths

Adrianne, 01/17/07

1. 59:00 (1,096 pieces)
2. 29:00 (344 pieces)
3. 54:00 (329 pieces)
4. 58:00 (309 pieces)
5. 58:98 (182 pieces)
6. 118:00 (175 pieces)
7. 60:00 (121 pieces)
8. 29:50 (86 pieces)
9. 3:00 (81 pieces)
10. 58:50 (75 pieces)
11. 55:00 (52 pieces)
12. 10:00 (51 pieces)
13. 2:00 (51 pieces)
14. 4:00 (50 pieces)
15. 57:00 (47 pieces)

2006 Most-Licensed Producers

Adrianne, 01/11/07

1. Fred Flaxman
2. Philip Nusbaum
3. Leni Holliman
4. Paul Ingles
5. Nanci Olesen
6. Judy Carmichael
7. Jeff Brown
8. Richard Paul
9. Joe Bevilacqua
10. Dean Ritz
11. Finger Lakes Productions
12. Douglas Grant
13. Jake Warga
14. Jay Allison
15. Curtis Fox

2006 Most-Licensed Producer Groups

Adrianne, 01/11/07

1. PRI
2. The Vinyl Cafe
3. L.A. Theatre Works
4. Joyride Media
5. HearingVoices
6. War News Radio
7. Listener Directed Productions
8. Radio Netherlands
9. Soundprint
10. American Public Media
11. Good Radio Shows, Inc.
12. This I Believe
13. StoryCorps
14. New Dimensions
15. Emerging Media

2006 Most-Licensed Stations

Adrianne, 01/11/07

1. WXPN
2. WNYC
3. KRCC
4. CBC
5. KUOW
6. WPR
7. WFIU
8. WFUV
9. VPR
10. KUT

2006 Most-Licensed Pieces

Adrianne, 01/11/07

1. Crossing Borders Special from HearingVoices
2. A Jethro Tull Christmas With Ian Anderson from Douglas Grant
3. Nina Simone: Forever Young, Gifted & Black from Joyride Media
4. Everything Was Right: The Beatles' Revolver from PRI/Paul Ingles
5. 24/7: The Rise and Influence of Arab Media - A Documentary Special from The Stanley Foundation
6. First Time I Met the Blues: The Buddy Guy Story from PRI/Ben Manilla Productions
7. World War One Living History Projec from Treehouse Productions
8. Border Blasters and Outlaw Broadcasters from PRI/KUT
9. Wordshakers Poetry Special from HearingVoices
10. In Search of James Brown: An Appreciation from Paul Ingles
11. Crossing East: First Contacts - Program One from PRI/Dmae Roberts
12. Peace Talks Radio: Taken Too Soon-The Cost of War from Good Radio Shows, Inc
13. The One-Room School in the Twenty-First Century from Neenah Ellis
14. Experiencing War - "Families of War" from PRI

2006 Most-Licensed Series

Adrianne, 01/11/07

1. Compact Discoveries from Fred Flaxman
2. The Vinyl Cafe from The Vinyl Cafe
3. Blues File from WXPN
4. Virtuoso Voices: Funders from Listener Directed Productions, Inc.
5. Day by Day with Lewis & Clark from Leni Holliman
6. Crossing East from PRI/Dmae Roberts
7. The Bluegrass Review from Philip Nusbaum
8. Radio Lab from WNYC/Jad Abumrad
9. Blues & Beyond from WXPN/Jonny Meister
10. (((HearingVoices))) Specials from HearingVoices
11. Peace Talks Radio - New Series of Half-Hours from Good Radio Shows, Inc.
12. StoryCorps from StoryCorps/Dave Isay
13. Tales from Urban Forests from Soundprint
14. The Plan from HearingVoices
15. The Wire form CBC/Paolo Pietropaolo and Chris Brookes

2006 Most-Previewed Pieces

Adrianne, 01/11/07

1. Trey Anastasio Live - Let It Shine from Tres Hombres Productions
2. Everything Was Right: The Beatles' "Revolver" from Paul Ingles
3. Vinyl Cafe, Sunday November 26, 2006, "Dave Cooks the Turkey" from Vinyl Cafe
4. Johnny Cash: Ring of Fire from Joyride Media
5. The Emergence of Bob Dylan from Paul Ingles
6. Fundraising Funnies II from WFIU
7. Walt Whitman: Song of Myself from WNYC
8. Bob Dylan: No Direction Home from Joyride Media
9. Shawn Colvin: Inside "These Four Walls" from Paul Ingles
10. How to Observe Presidents' Day, Observed from The Little Gray Book Lectures
11. My Lobotomy from Sound Portraits
12. Christmas in the Trenches from Scott Gurian
13. Little Gray Book Lecture: How to Communicate Without the Use of Wires from The Little Gray Book Lectures
14. The Vinyl Cafe March 26 from The Vinyl Cafe

2006 Most-Active Reviewers

Adrianne, 01/11/07

1. Todd Melby
2. Geoffrey Tozer
3. Stephen L. Gilbreath
4. Michael Patterson
5. Jaimita Haskell
6. Susan Fraser
7. Kyra Joseph

2006 Most-Reviewed Pieces

Adrianne, 01/11/07

1. That's My Song: Aliens Exist
2. That's My Song: Sex (I'm a...)
3. What We Wish We Could Tell Our Parents
4. Leaving the Mountains
5. Is It Just Me?
6. Hopeless in High School
7. Shawn Colvin: Inside "These Four Walls"
8. Where Were You Fifth Period?
9. Katrina Photojournalist John McCusker
10. 21-year-old Katrina survivor signing up for U.S. Army
11. Smack
12. Fashion Obsession
13. End of the Rope
14. Mind Your Metal

2006 Most-Active Youth Reviewers

Adrianne, 01/10/07

1. Caitlin Garing, Alaska Teen Media Institute
2. Martin Macias, Curie Youth Radio
3. Emily Schwing, Next Generation
4. Kiera Feldman, KBOO Youth Collective
5. Swati Rayasam, Youth Noise Network

2006 Most-Licensed Youth Pieces

Adrianne, 01/10/07

1. Tie: Katrina Photojournalist John McCusker from Adeline Goss, BSR and The Cost of War from Spencer Scott, Blunt Youth Radio Project
2. Leaving the Mountains from Machlyn Blair, Appalachian Media Institute
3. Off to the Army from KRCB Voice of Youth
4. Ties: College-Bound from WAMU
Teens and the Media, News Excerpt 1 from Teen Attitudes
Living With Ghosts from WJFF
Dear Mom: I Joined the Marines from Curie Youth Radio
Conversation with Cornel West from KRCB Voice of Youth

2006 Most-Popular Fundraising Pieces

Adrianne, 01/10/07

1. Fundraising Funnies II and I from WFIU
2. Drive Feature with David Isay from VPR
3. This I Believe - Pledge Spot 1, 2, 3, and 4 from This I Believe
4. Must-Have Fundraising Module: Robert Plant Pledges To Never Hear "Stairway To Heaven" from Paul Ingles
5. One way or another, you should pledge from KUOW
6. Morning Edition Sonnet Fundraising Element from Radio Anyway
7. Story Corps Fundraiser Piece 2 from WNYC
8. Funding Spot:Tossing Away the Keys, with Dave Isay from Sound Portraits
9. Norm Tabler #1 from WFYI
10. NPR Geeks from Jake Warga

2006 Members by Country

Adrianne, 01/09/07

1. United States (10735 members)
2. Canada (786 members)
3. United Kingdom (456 members)
4. Germany (85 members)
5. Netherlands (75 members)
6. Sweden (68 members)
7. Japan (46 members)
8. France (43 members)
9. United States Minor Outlying Islands (31 members)
10. Brazil (28 members)

2006 Members By State

Adrianne, 01/09/07

1. California (1387 members)
2. New York (1062 members)
3. Massachusetts (610 members)
4. Washington and Texas (394 members)
5. Pennsylvania (297 members)
6. Virginia (261 members)
7. Colorado (201 membesr)
8. Washington DC (193 members)
9. New Jersey (186 members)
10. Maine (180 members)

PRX Staff Yearbook Awards

Adrianne, 01/08/07

Most friendly Dunkin Donuts: Harvard Square
Best Conference Swag: Third Coast Audio Festival

PRX employee:
. . . who makes the best coffee: Andrew
. . . with the largest number of appearances on The Daily Show (1): Robert
. . . with the best dance moves: Kerri
. . . with the most adorable offspring: Matt
. . . with the most fans in South Korea: Jake
. . . who is the best tap dancer: Nick
. . . with the highest travel tolerance: John
. . . who is most living in Maine: Jones
. . . who is most likely to arrive at 3am: Nathan
. . . with the most fallopian tubes in the Massachusetts office: Adrianne
. . . best able to run through walls: rats

Image by Socar Myles

The Zeitfunk Awards Ceremony

Adrianne, 03/24/06

At long last: it's time for the Annual PRX Zeitfunk Awards Ceremony! Somebody get the karate-man-shaped gourmet cheese; the stars have arrived.

Ben Lavine, Best Expression

Check out the winners from 2005, and hear what they had to say. We just can't get enough of the pictures.

You can see the nominees and all winners here.

2005 Zeitfunk

Adrianne, 02/06/06

It's time again for the PRX Zeitfunk -- the annual tally and virtual award show highlighting the most-[everything] on PRX! This year we added a few new categories, especially in the growing youth-produced area.

The trophies are on their way. Hi-yah!

Without further ado, our 2005 winners:

Most Licensed Producer
Leni Holliman
(more in this category...)

Most Licensed Producer Group
L.A. Theatre Works
(more in this category...)

Most Licensed Station
WNYC
(more in this category...)

Most Licensed Piece
John Ono Lennon Special from HearingVoices
(more in this category...)

Most Licensed Series
PRI Holiday Package
(more in this category...)

Most Listened-to Piece
Johnny Cash: Ring of Fire
(more in this category...)

Most Active Reviewer
Emon Hassan
(more in this category...)

Most Reviewed Piece
Primary Sources - Son of a Star from PRI and producers Keith Talbot & Sarah Lemanczyk
(more in this category...)

Most Active Youth Reviewer
Tie! Alla Pekareva and Ben Lavine
(more in this category...)

Most Licensed Youth Piece
Oakland Scenes: Snapshots of a Community from Youth Radio
(more in this category...)

Most Popular Fundraising Piece
Fundraising Funnies I and II from WFIU
(more ready-to-air fundraisers...)

We noticed a few things in the results. The Most Licensed Producer Group is a PRX newcomer this year. Emon has surpassed Jackson Braider as the most active reviewer (PRX Editorial Board excluded), but he hasn't reviewed the most talked about piece on PRX. Youth-produced pieces and youth reviews are on the rise with the help of of Generation PRX, putting the last count at over 200 pieces.

Our winners will be recieving the coveted "karate guy" trophy shortly. Pictures of the winners coming soon!

2005 Ten Most-Reviewed Pieces

Adrianne, 02/06/06

1. Primary Sources - Son of a Star
2. Finding Love in a Nevada Brothel
3. The Emergence of Bob Dylan
4. Chasing Love
5. God is Talking to Me
6. Local News Sucks
7. Roberto: We Don't Live in Huts
8. To Hug or Not to Hug?
9. The Best Confession
10. Biography of 100,000 Square Feet

2005 Ten Most-Licensed Youth-Produced Pieces

Adrianne, 02/06/06

1. Oakland Scenes: Snapshots of a Community - Youth Radio
2. Obesity - WAMU
3. Comfort Food - Youth Noise Network/Center for Documentary Studies
4. Mother's Day outLoud - outLoud Radio
5. The Sound of Young America Holiday Special - JesseThorn
6. A Youth Radio Special: Youth Voices on Life After Hurricane Katrina - PRI/Youth Special
7. The Youth Radio Project's Christmas Carol - WJFF
8. Back to School in a Garbage Can - Curie Youth Radio
9. Grandmother - WAMU
10. Taking the SAT - WAMU

2005 Most-Active Youth Reviewers

Adrianne, 02/06/06

1. Tie: Alla Pekareva and Ben Lavine
2. Michael Eddy
3. Emily LaFond
4. Adrian Boyes
5. Andre Rosario
6. Eilis O'Neill
7. Dulce Maria Mora
8. Russell Wright

2005 Fifteen Most-Listened-To Pieces

Adrianne, 02/05/06

1. Johnny Cash: Ring of Fire
2. Bob Dylan: No Direction Home
3. Weighing the Balance
4. SERIES: Johnny Cash: The Legend
5. Primary Sources - Son of a Star
6. Vinyl Cafe December 4th 2005: "Dave Cooks the Turkey"
7. Finding Love in a Nevada Brothel
8. Written in My Soul from Me to You: Blood on the Tracks at 30
9. Johnny Cash: How Great Thou Art
10. The Jewish New Year: Music and Inspirational Teachings from the Kabbalah
11. Christmas in the Trenches
12. SERIES: Vinyl Cafe
13. Oh Fortuna! (episode #1)
14. JOHN ONO LENNON Special
15. Interview with Dory Previn Part 1

2005 Ten Most-Active Reviewers

Adrianne, 02/02/06

1. Emon Hassan
2. Deborah Astley
3. Sarah Elzas
4. Cheryl-Anne Millsap
5. Richard Paul
6. Ben Lavine
7. Hiram Rogers
8. Will Cervarich
9. Michael Eddy
10. Lola Potapowicz

2005 Ten Most-Licensed Series

Adrianne, 02/02/06

1. PRI Holiday Package
2. Musicians in their Own Words
3. (((HearingVoices))) Specials
4. A Cook's Notebook
5. Outfront
6. Think Global Collaboration PROMOS
7. Theory of Everything
8. Radio Lab
9. Day by Day with Lewis & Clark
10. Worlds of Difference

2005 Ten Most-Licensed Pieces

Adrianne, 02/02/06

1. John Ono Lennon Special
2. Global 3.0
3. Fundraising Funnies I
4. Lessons from Hiroshima, 60 Years Later
5. Worlds of Difference: Finding a Niche
6. A Christmas Carol
7. Feet in Two Worlds: Immigrants in the Global City
8. SHOAH Holocaust Special
9. Martin Luther King Jr.'s Path To Nonviolence (59:00 Version)
10. Life Stories - Jobs: Women at Work

2005 Fifteen Most-Licensed Stations

Adrianne, 02/02/06

1. WNYC
2. WUNC
3. Minnesota Public Radio
4. WXPN
5. KRCC
6. WFUV
7. Vermont Public Radio
8. WGBH
9. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
10. KSUT
11. WFIU
12. WBEZ
13. WMFE
14. WQLN
15. North Country Public Radio

2005 Fifteen Most-Licensed Producer Groups

Adrianne, 02/02/06

1. L.A. Theatre Works
2. HearingVoices
3. American Radio Works
4. Public Radio Collaboration 2005
5. Outfront
6. Joyride Media
7. Prairie Home Productions
8. Good Radio Shows, Inc.
9. Homelands Productions
10. Soundprint
11. StoryCorps
12. National Radio Project
13. Salt
14. BBC
15. Long Haul Productions

2005 Fifteen Most-Licensed Producers

Adrianne, 02/02/06

1. Leni Holliman
2. Richard Paul
3. Ali Berlow
4. Benjamen Walker
5. Helen Borten
6. Paul Ingles
7. Jay Allison
8. Aaron Henkin
9. Maria Martin
10. Dmae Roberts
11. Larry Josephson
12. Jonathan Mitchell
13. Jake Warga
14. Scott Gurian
15. Philip Nusbaum

Zeitfunk Update, 06/01/05

Jake, 06/06/05

Here is a snapshot of some leading PRX stats as of 06/01/05:

LICENSES
there have been 3735 licenses
of 1596 unique pieces
from 388 unique "sellers"
for a total of 1705 hours of programming acquired

STATIONS
213 stations have licensed at least one piece on PRX

INDIVIDUAL PRODUCERS
there are 617 individual producers

PRODUCER GROUPS
there are 132 producer groups

PIECES

4446 pieces ever posted to PRX

3249 pieces currently on the site

551 stations pieces

1532 individual producer pieces

1174 from producer group pieces

percent of all pieces on PRX that been licensed at least once: 36%

$25k in PRX Royalties for Q1 2005

Jake, 05/31/05

During the first quarter of 2005 radio stations licensed radio pieces from the Public Radio Exchange 837 times, generating $24,782.20 in royalties to producers and stations whose work was licensed.

140 independent producers, organizations, and stations earned royalties, and a total of 548 hours of programming was acquired for broadcast. Not too shabby!

PRX pays royalties on a quarterly basis. Royalties are based on the length of the piece and the number of times it is licensed by stations. Currently the default pricing is $0.50 per minute per license.

2004 Quick Stats

Steve, 01/13/05

Pieces:	2264 (710 hours)
Reviews:	1876
Members:	4140
Licenses of Pieces:	1587

The 2004 Zeitfunk

Brendan, 01/13/05

PRX, after several days deep in spreadsheets and red pens, announces the results of its 2004 Zeitfunk.

Most Licensed Producer

Richard Paul

Most Licensed Producer Group

Prairie Home Productions

Most Licensed Station

WUNC

Most Licensed Piece

Annie Wu's "Orphan Train"

Most Licensed Series

Prairie Home Production's "Pop Vultures"

Most Active Reviewer

Jackson Braider