KDHX Syndication Program Application

CPB, PRX, and KDHX

KDHX provides a few seasons of syndication content per year as a part of our agreement with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, our affiliate and licensor, AKA CPB. Yes! The same CPB that brought us Mr. Rogers and Sesame Street.

As a radio network broadcaster, CPB requests that affiliate stations like KDHX help each other out by way of utilizing CPB funds to create and distribute mutually useful and fresh programming from stations that have an excess to those who could use it. This exchange is literally handled via the Public Radio Exchange, or PRX, an online depository and download center used to distribute all kinds of audio content, including your favorite NPR and KDHX programs. See for yourself here: KDHX Content on PRX

Application and Project Guidelines

Volunteer programmer/producers are encouraged to apply for a KDHX program via the DJ/Host Application process (click here), and to note within the application that their intent is to create a season of content for air on KDHX and syndication on other CPB stations, acknowledging that the production techniques vary greatly, and the focus of the content need be much less time sensitive, if not completely timeless.

The volunteer commitment for producing this type of program for KDHX, if approved, is a minimum 2 week training process, and weekly or bi-weekly 2-3 hour recording process, with the goal of producing a minimum of 12 episodes. Editing and publishing support will be provided in partnership with KDHX staff and volunteers in training.

Previously produced programming for syndication has been intentionally representative of KDHX in terms of locale - genre and style content desirable nationally and internationally as from St. Louis and the Mississippi River Valley - but also, as representative of our focus on presenting lesser known and emerging artists through live performance and interview content.

Applications for production support for programming intended for syndication will be reviewed with a focus on expanding this from St. Louis idea, but also on our values of supporting and representing marginalized voices, and lesser known artists, and providing content useful to affiliate CPB stations that cannot consistently deliver a full programming schedule by their own means.

Production Process

When a Show application is approved for production, the producer will begin by preparing the playlists for the program in Spinitron, targeting a future date for actual broadcast on KDHX. The playlists begin the process of gathering content, song by song, in WAV format. Support for this process will be provided.

Show IDs and verbal announcing can be prepared in real time in studio if the DJ prefers, but need not be. All may be recorded individually, and assembled in digital editing software with the support of a production department engineer.

Series produced by KDHX for PRX distribution follow this semi-standard syndication format:

• 2 Hours of programming, separated at the 20s (6 segments)
• WAV files of KDHX originated, copyright covered, and released material (no web or TV recordings)
• Files delivered in sequential order
• IDs are generic in their nature, crediting show host and show name specifically, and KDHX not as broadcaster but as production company, best handled in the introduction each hour and at the end credits of each hour.

KDHX ID and Credit Language for PRX Syndication:

It will be critical to replace our standard ID format with something that can be used on any station:

"You're listening to [Show Title] on 88.1 KDHX," becomes:

"You're listening to [Show Title] produced in the studios of KDHX in St. Louis. I'm your host, [Host Name]"

End of hour message:

"[Show Title] is produced in the studios of KDHX in St. Louis, with support from our listeners, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, distributed by PRX the Public Radio Exchange. I'm [Host Name], thank you for listening."