PMD #7: PRX's new look, more awards, WYCC is back on-air and 89.9 WVIA-FM's 45th birthday.

Public Media Daily

Episode seven of Public Media Daily is now available on this podcast feed. This is where you'll get all the latest news from the world of public media and highlights from Monday, April 23rd include...

1) PRX has received a new look and a new website for its upcoming 15th anniversary in September.

2) Michigan Radio has won 14 awards Sunday from the Michigan A.P. Media Editors while 89.1 WGLT Bloomington, Ill. wins four awards from the Illinois A.P.

3) WYCC is back on-the-air in Chicago on Channel 20.1 broadcasting MHz Worldview programming.

4) 91.3 WHQR Wilmington becomes the latest station to announce that it'll add "The Daily" (NYT and APM) to its weeknight schedule at 6:00 p.m. starting next Monday, April 30th.

5) Classical HQR Wilmington will add three new classical music programs to its schedule starting next week: Performance Today (MPR and APM), SymphonyCast (MPR and APM) and From The Top (NPR).

6) Required tower maintenance for the upcoming FCC spectrum repack will force WKAR-TV 23, 90.5 WKAR-FM and 105.1 W233CH in East Lansing to experience outages and off-air periods until May 9th.

7) Happy 45th Birthday to 89.9 WVIA-FM. It signed on-the-air April 23rd, 1973 and Mixed Bag host George Graham has been there since day one. Did you know it owns a jazz music record label called "Chiaroscuro Records"?

8) This podcast is now available on Stitcher! We're now available on at least five different podcast platforms with more in the works.

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R.I.P. WCMZ-TV 28 Flint, Mich. (August 23rd, 1980-April 23rd, 2018)