History
The PRX site and services launched in September 2003 after a two-year planning, research, and development phase supported by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Ford Foundation. Since then PRX has received additional support from the NTIA Technology Opportunities Program, the MacArthur Foundation, the Open Society Institute, the Surdna Foundation, and Google Grants. PRX offices are located in Cambridge, MA.
On February 28, 2007 PRX and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting announced the Public Radio Talent Quest. This competition is an open search for new public radio talent, and gives producers the chance to produce a pilot show for public radio. Finalists will be chosen after a five round competition voted on by fans, public radio professionals and celebrity judges.
On May 14, 2007 the first round of submissions ended with 1,452 entries. As of May 22, 2007, the Public Radio Talent Quest site has over 14,600 registered users.
On April 9, 2008 The MacArthur Foundation selected PRX as one of its 2008 recipients of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions.
In late November 2008 PRX soft launched PRX 3.0. The launch includes their Remix Radio project which provides a sampling of the content available for licensing on the site.
On 2009-01-01, PRX, Inc became a Massachusetts 501c3 nonprofit corporation. Previously PRX had been a project area of the Station Resource Group, a Maryland nonprofit.
On 2009-01-28, PRX was added to XM Satellite Radio on channel 136.
On 2009-07-19, PRX launched the Public Radio Player 2.0, an iPhone app for public radio developed by PRX, NPR and other public radio partners, and funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting
On 2009-08-11, PRX was included in CPB's agreement with SoundExchange through 2015 as a covered public radio entity for music webcasting royalties
On 2010-02-01, PRX launched the This American Life iPhone app
On 2010-06-16, PRX was announced as a winner of the 2010 Knight News Challenge for Story Exchange a crowdfunding journalism project
On 2010-09-08 PRX announced $2.7M in new funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Ford Foundation
On 2010-07-07, PRX launched the WBUR Boston iPhone app
On 2011-12-08, PRX announced $2.5M in funding from Knight Foundation to create the Public Media Accelerator
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