Public InteractiveŽ: Station Network: What Our Clients Say

Public Interactive provides the most comprehensive solution for building and maintaining a television, radio, or program web site without any of the financial or technical burdens.

We offer everything a station or program needs for their web site:

What Our Clients Are Saying...

Overall Service

"Everything went really well with the rollout of our new Public Platform site. We've received lots of positive feedback from our community, and it has been really easy for us to keep our site up to date. We're very impressed with how user-friendly the online tools are, and how responsive the team at Public Interactive has been to our input on the project!" Brian E. Koral | President & General Manager | Aleutian Peninsula Broadcasting, Inc. (KSDP)

"Public Interactive has enabled us to provide a meaningful web service that would have been beyond the reach of our resources otherwise." - Peter Bryant, Station Manager | WKYU/WKUE/WKPB/WDCL, Western Kentucky University

"I love Public Interactive." - John Unser, IT Coordinator, MPTV Friends, Milwaukee, WI

"Public Interactive has played an important part in the development of KCUR's web site. With the addition of the Public NewsRoom, Arts and Events pages, our site has 'grown up' and has become an integral part of KCUR's role in the community. The administrative tools are incredibly well designed and easy to use and the support staff are always quick to respond to any questions." - Sara Crane, Promotions and Web Manager | KCUR, Kansas City, MO

"For stations that have a small staff, minimal technical skills and limited budgets, Public Interactive is the perfect partner. They offer design services to help build a site from the ground up. They provide excellent content that gives a site instant credibility. And they offer on-going support to help local staff maintain the site from promotional tools to technical assistance, all in a friendly, accessible manner." - John Gregory, Assistant Station Manager | WEKU Richmond, KY

"Public Interactive truly lives up to its name, making it possible for the KUNC staff and members of the community to use www.kunc.org to communicate with each other without having to be fluent in Java, Page Maker or the always popular 'Fatal Error,' on a daily basis. Our entire news staff is able in a matter of minutes to not only serve the listening audience by making important news stories available on demand, but also to create an archive record for use by both staff and listeners. In the first month of our using the Community Events page, more than 80 venues and a couple hundred activities were listed, with a minimal increase in work for the KUNC staff.

"An added bonus is the technical staff of Public Interactive -- accessible, helpful and supportive. If you question my enthusiasm, take a look at our page or call me directly." - Neil Best, General Manager | KUNC Greeley, CO

"I continue to be impressed at the speed in which all of you respond and resolve any problems. Thanks again. " - Mike Foley, Reporter News/Sports/Features | WCBE Columbus, OH

Pulse

"Pulse is an big improvement over our previous e-mail software. It's easier, quicker, more intuitive and much less frustrating. It does more of what we need it to do; it makes us more efficient; the messages it produces look and work better. Plus, Pulse has state-of-the-art tech support!" - Tom Haydon, OPB

" Data sync tools in Pulse allow us to import different membership data from Memsys to Pulse so we can easily segment our list by renewal dates, by whether they've pledged and so on. Pulse also makes it easy to track the success of our e-solicitations and help us evaluate what's what's working. " - Bryan Talbott, WFAE

"Pulse is so user-friendly! It is easy to generate reports about messages that subscribers have opened. And having the data in real-time is great, we aren't left wondering if anyone is opening our message. Not only is the e-mail application easy to use, but when there are problems, the support we receive from Public Interactive has always given us a solution. Pulse is a great marketing tool! " - Dale Hobson, NCPR

Quick Pledge


The Quick Pledge/Pulse tracking feature gives you immediate feedback on the success of each e-appeal. It's easy to use and in conjunction with Quick Pledge provides a great tool to track the number of pledges and dollar amounts attributable to each e-appeal -- including WHO responded to each appeal. - Dorie Vallillo, General Manager, Tri States Public Radio

"We loved Quick Pledge!!! It was so easy to set-up and to use and since we did not have on-line pledging last spring, it was a HUGE jump for us. Hopefully more people will pledge online as they become more aware that we have it. We got Quick Pledge only a week before our drive started. Thanks!" - Angie Kimbro, WKMS

"Small stations with limited time and staff will find Quick Pledge a godsend. Managing the thank-you gifts and transactions is so simple and looks so good on the screen. We couldn't have been as successful out of the box with our new music if it wasn't for Quick Pledge!" - Steve Yasko | General Manager, WTMD, Baltimore

"I would be remiss if I didn't mention that WTMD wouldn't have been as successful as it was during and before our drive if it wasn't for Quick Pledge from Public Interactive.

"We are a small staff and on a limited budget. Quick Pledge gives us a professional-looking, full-featured site that is easy to maintain (the Premium Manager is amazing) and the reporting is great. We don't have a web master, but I feel like our listeners would never know that. We even read thank-you's directly from the screen.

"A plug? Sure. Could it better? Sure, and PI has been really responsive to our suggestions. I like the relationship. Call me if you need more convincing."

"The best part is the email notification. One goes to me and one goes to our contact in the University Foundation...we have a blast calling each other when we get a big pledge." - Steve Yasko | General Manager, WTMD, Baltimore

Streaming

The quality of the streaming signal is superior! I honestly think PI has one of the best signal streams available. As a matter of fact, this is one of the things our members and listeners comment on the most. Deb Stout | Director of Promotions | High Plains Public Radio

Public NewsRoom

"Public Newsroom allows us to maintain a professional online newsroom despite our small staff by offering a wealth of news content that is automatically updated. Combined with the local content that we post ourselves, our audience can use our online newsroom as a reliable and substantive news source." " - Karen Tricot, News Anchor/Reporter | KUAR-FM, Little Rock, AR

"The Public Newsroom has become a crucial part of our web site and is the perfect extension of our news department. The publishing tools make it easy for our news staff to maintain local headlines and locally produced features, making our news section dynamic and fresh. The professional appearance and seamless integration with our existing site has made Public Newsroom a crucial element in our web presence that we could not do without." - Jason Ulrich, Director of Interactive Media | KWMU-FM, St. Louis, MO

Public Events

"We have found the Public Events module of Public Interactive to be a very well-thought-out and user-friendly service. In recent months Public Interactive has made some very useful enhancements and it's much more flexible, especially for small markets." - Cleve Callison, General Manager | WMUB, Oxford, OH

"WTMD has nothing but great things to say about Public Interactive. Events and Quick Pledge are worth the investment alone!" - Steve Yasko | General Manager, WTMD, Baltimore

"The KAMUnity Events calendar wouldn't be possible without Public Interactive. We have a user-friendly site that supports our community and saves us time and energy. Plus, we have a great looking web site that has it all -- local, national, and international news, arts info and more. Thanks, Public Interactive!"

"Our experience has been very positive! Our site looks good and they were willing to work with us to make sure that we were happy with the end results. Public Events is worth its weight in gold as far as I'm concerned. Our station web site is now "the" place to come to find out what's happening in our community....and our listeners do the work! The site is very friendly and easy to use. Plus, Quick Pledge is so much better than what we had. It's easy to put your premiums up which is a great service to our cyber-pledgers." - Penny Zent, Station Manager | KAMU, College Station, TX

"Thanks to Public Events, our online calendar -- Culture Connect -- is truly the one-stop resource for arts and cultural happenings in Connecticut. Public Events has facilitated our partnership with the Connecticut Commission on the Arts and has provided the tools necessary for local organizations to submit events at the Culture Connect web site."

"Public Events makes Culture Connect possible with our current staff and resources. It's a tremendous community service." - Harold Kramer | Vice President, Connecticut Public Broadcasting, Inc.

JukeBox

"WNKU started from scratch and talk about acceleration. With JukeBox, we went from zero to podcasting (six different program series) in two weeks!" -George Zahn, WNKU, Highland Heights KY

"Public Interactive has hit it out of the park again! The Jukebox is easy to use, visually enticing and best of all, an addition to our new media arsenal. WTMD is big on podcasting but short on staff we're grateful to Public Interactive because they've increased our public service without increasing our staff time!" - Steve Yasko, General Manager WTMD Baltimore, MD

Public Action

"Public Action offered ways to blend our Web site with the forum that made it easier to link, to focus on particular discussions and easier for users to interact comfortably. As soon as I read about its features, I was bugging my boss to find the money for it. Like all PBS stations, our budget is tight. But not committing to Public Action would have cost us more in the long run: we were losing audience to other blogs/forums, and losing clout and credibility for not having enough interaction." -Scott Gowans, WOSU, OH

"Public Action is by far the best thing that's come along for community engagement. It's intuitive and very easy to use. We work hard to build a sense of community around the 'Car Talk' experience, and Public Action provides an easy way for fans to interact with one another, with Tom and Ray and with people who are new to the show." - Doug Mayer, CarTalk

"Public Interactive has been very responsive, addressing everyone's concerns in a timely way, from the least tech-savvy person all the way up to us geeks. It's been great." - Chad Johnson, KUER, UT