Welcome Public Radio Exchange on XM 136!

Roman posted on Tuesday, May 5th, 2009 | Uncategorized

First there was Public Radio Exchange, or as most people call it PRX. The goal of PRX is to make public radio more public. All the various independent producers of the world upload their content to PRX.org and radio stations can sample the work, license it, and put it on the air. It’s beautiful thing when independent work gets to the ears of the right people. Stuff that otherwise would not have an outlet, or might only be heard once and lost into the ether, can live on and flourish on all the great local public radio stations around the country.

Then we decided it would be fun to take some of that great content uploaded to PRX and remix it into an internet radio stream. We called the beta of this stream Remix Radio.

Then Sirius XM gave a call and we pitched the idea of taking the Remix Radio stream and offering it as a satellite radio channel. But an internet channel and a satellite channel are completely different beasts, so we launched the channel with a looping sampler hour while we figured out the details, and now, finally, the Public Radio Exchange on XM 136 is live (big shout out to George at Backbone!). Right now, what you hear on the XM 136 channel and what’s playing at remixradio.org are not the same thing, but soon enough it’ll all be one thing. Stay tuned.

In the meantime, sit back and enjoy some of the coolest public radio out there from some of the best producers in the world. Thanks for joining in our experiment.

-Roman Mars