About PRX
Public Radio Exchange is an online marketplace for distribution, review, and licensing of public radio programming. PRX is also a growing social network and community of listeners, producers, and stations collaborating to reshape public radio. The mission of PRX is to create more opportunities for diverse programming of exceptional quality, interest, and importance to reach more listeners.
Find It
Any radio station, any distributor, and any producer can add work to a PRX catalog of documentaries, series, commentaries, and features. There are thousands of pieces, on almost any topic.
We sift through the site every day, finding work that programmers can plug straight into their schedules. Our editorial board of producers and station staff help us, along with a community of thousands of volunteer reviewers. We send out regular programming suggestions and highlight relevant stuff on our site.
Of course, you can search on your own, too. We built a powerful search tool that will help you find precisely what you need, at the right length, on the right subject or by the right producer.
Hear It
Anyone - public radio enthusiasts, reviewers, producers, program decision-makers - can listen to the full-length stream of any piece. Station staff an grab an audition-only mp3 and take it to go.
Air It
So here's the cool part: PRX takes care of all the rights and royalties. When you want to air a piece, you just click "Buy this piece." You get immediate access to download and air a broadcast-quality mp2, and we pay the producer a royalty. That's right, producers. We said "royalty."
Every station starts with two hours of free radio, and every producer starts with two hours of free audio space. After that, you can pay a single annual fee for unlimited storage. (Fee? We're a nonprofit, but our funders are only so generous.)
"It's a smart solution to the problem of excellent and innovative productions failing to reach wide audiences."
-- The Boston Globe
"PRX is a sort of bottomless grab bag full of radio pieces. It is part radio distribution service and part peer-review resource."
-- The Washington Post
"After its first year, the nonprofit PRX Public Radio Exchange has received a clear signal that its idea of linking radio programs with stations in search of content is working." -- The Chronicle of Philanthropy