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Events & Workshops

PMCC offers a series of intensive workshops for a variety of skill levels that will help you and your content teams to deliver the very best public service to audiences. PMCC also provides virtual learning opportunities and convenings that make it easy and cost-effective for you to get the training you need.

Upcoming Events

Audience Development Summit

The 4th annual Audience Development Summit is happening February 11 and 12 and all content leaders and managers are encouraged to join your station team for this unique virtual event. Produced in partnership with Greater Public, this convening brings together a cross-disciplinary team from your organization to help address the urgent need for audience development throughout public media. The Audience Development Summit will equip you and your team with new national research findings that showcase the unmet needs of news and music audiences, first-hand stories of successful efforts that better serve our broader communities and ideas and steps to translate audience engagement into financial support. This is an opportunity to step away from the day-to-day and gather with your station leadership team to concentrate on connecting and engaging with new audiences. The goal is to give your team focused time to absorb, reflect, and discuss the steps your organization can take to today to expand your reach and deepen your engagement.

Digital Content Workshop

The Digital Content Workshop is designed to help your organization serve significant audiences on digital platforms. This is a group workshop for cross-functional teams in content, digital and marketing who hold authority for digital content decisions. Experienced trainers Tamar Charney and Briana O’Higgins lead you through the curriculum and follow up afterwards to help you implement everything your team has learned. The 2024 workshop is being rescheduled for January of 2025 with registration opening in October. The cost is $3,000 for PMCC member organizations and $3,500 for non-members for a team of FIVE people. Watch this space for announcements about dates and registration.

Go back and watch educational webinars you may have missed on a variety of topics, from audience research presentations to training sessions on how to coach talent. Find our webinar archive below.

Upcoming Events

2024 Public Radio TechSurvey

October 8, 2024

In total, more than 22,000 responses were gathered from 62 participating public radio stations across the country for the 2024 Public Radio TechSurvey, produced in partnership with Jacobs Media. We are excited to share the key findings of PRTS 2024. This survey helps us answer some key questions about how our most loyal fans perceive us. For instance, recent PRTS studies suggest a heightened interest in local and regional information. We’ll see if that trend continue in PRTS 2024, and if so, talk about the implication for programmers and marketers.

REGISTER AND WATCH THE RECORDING HERE
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Election Audience Trends

September 25, 2024

Typically, public radio stations see audience growth during a presidential election year as people search out information they can trust. Broadcast audiences earlier in the year were not showing a dramatic increase, but that has changed as July’s news cycle and the Republican and Democratic conventions have captured people’s attention. In this special webinar produced in partnership with ERPM, PMCC and the RRC, we reviewed the most recent audience trends and share ideas on how to cultivate and retain audiences through the election and beyond.

WATCH THE RECORDING

Content and programming professionals from across the country get together regularly to spend time with their peers and talk about their shared challenges and solutions. Virtual cohort meetups for News/Talk and Classical programmers are scheduled monthly with other groups meeting less frequently. Don’t work alone, find a cohort group to build up your professional network.