Philadelphia AES Section Blog

December 14, 2023 at 7:00 pm

Location: Zoom

Moderated by: Chip Powell - Philadelphia Section Chair

Speaker(s): Joyce Lieberman - Radio Engineering Supervisor at WHYY-FM Philadelphia

This presentation will outline the multi-project effort undertaken to preserve over 40 years of interviews and to provide public access to WHYY’s Fresh Air with Terry Gross radio program.

Fresh Air is one of public media's most popular programs, with 5 million listeners on 665 stations and 4 million weekly podcast downloads. In a media world with 60-second video clips, Fresh Air's 45-minute interview segments offer in-depth conversations with writers, musicians, actors, journalists, and others exploring the arts, pop culture and issues.  

Archiving and preserving the program began in 1978 with organizing the amassed reel-to-reel tape library. Digitizing this collection began in 2006. Joyce will discuss the history of the project and the technical decisions made for sampling rate, bit resolution, and the best storage medium to use. Working with NPR, the archives are now accessible to the public at  https://freshairarchive.org/ and https://www.npr.org/programs/fresh-air/

When

Thursday December 14 @ 7:00 PM EST

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