Define Public Interactive's community-based perspective.
Our local community-based perspective is derived from our
station-centric collaborative approach, providing critical content and
productive tools for on-air/online synergies, citizen engagement and
the development of significant social capital. As the Internet changes
the relationship of program listeners and viewers to national programs
and distributors, local community-based broadcasters must increasingly
focus on the engagement of their audience with relevant social issues.
How does Public Interactive develop their content offerings?
Content across categories including news, information, social
commentary and entertainment is developed through strategic
partnerships and alliances with public broadcasters at the station,
independent producer and network level. This cooperative approach
creates cost effective yet compelling quality content distributed
through Public Interactive as station-branded and localized versions of
Public NewsRoom®, Public Arts® and Public Events®.
Who is Public Interactive's audience?
We reach an
opinion-leading, socially aware and community-involved audience -- the
public broadcasting audience. With regular station on-air promotions,
we have the potential to connect with the 22 million regular weekly
listeners to public radio and with the 96 million weekly viewers of
public television.
How does Public Interactive create financial efficiencies for its client stations?
Our
Application Service Provider (ASP) model ensures financial efficiencies
that are a key component of Public Interactive's strategy to leverage
support for community-based public broadcasting mission requirements
with national content syndication and widely shared technology
development and deployment. Shared application tools and services
across public broadcasting stations provides for necessary online
requirements while leveraging industry financial resources within the
individual community budgetary restraints of a not-for-profit
environment.
How can Public Interactive help public broadcasting stations develop a broader membership financial base?
Our Quick Pledge Membership/Online
Pledging system and JukeBox On-Demand Digital Asset Management infrastructure
offered to Public Interactive clients are key to the continued growth
of public broadcasting's service and mission within an environment
steadily shifting to leveraged public funds and increased private
financing.
Recognizing the new costs coupled with new opportunities,
Public Interactive is emphasizing the development of appropriate
interactive infrastructure to help create a broader membership
financial base.
How has Public Interactive addressed the costs of audio/video streaming for its client stations?
Public
Interactive has achieved significant economies of scale as an
audio/video streaming aggregator, and is able to negotiate highly
competitive pricing without sacrificing high quality service, and pass
the cost savings to our stations.
Public Interactive,
in strategic partnership with broadcast caliber streaming media firms,
continues development of streaming services for client stations while
collectively testing a series of revenue generating programs at the
local level.
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