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THE PRPD/LNI TALK SHOW BEST PRACTICES PROJECT

Talk Show Summit: "Beyond Hit or Miss: Building Better Talk Shows"

A national gathering of talk show producers, hosts and station PDs, convened to help identify and develop "next steps" for the Talk Show Best Practices Project.

Summit Goals

The four main goals of the summit were to:

1. Refine and advance the "best practices" identified in the PRPD/LNI Talk Show Best Practices Matrix.
2. Determine if there is a need and constituency for new training programs and/or conferences targeted to public radio's talk programmers.
3. Develop specific ideas for the type of training/conferences that might be desired
4. Begin developing a common language to discuss the broad range of programs currently called talk shows.*

* Even the relatively small group of stations at the summit represented an enormous range of presentation; from what we called an "Uber-Produced" program (entirely pre-edited and pre-produced) to "Radio Verite" - all live with very few filters in place including little or no pre-screening of callers on whom these programs rely heavily.