Membership Options

Signing up is easy! If you know what kind of membership you want, you can proceed directly to http://www.prx.org/membership. If not, check out the following descriptions and see where you fit. For a good time, you can also read the PRX User Agreement.

Listener

PRX seeks good listeners who know what they want to hear on the radio. Whether you are a producer, program director or news director, station manager, marketing professional, web producer, fundraiser, or avid listener, you have opinions about what makes great radio, and on PRX we ask you to weigh in and help bring the best new work to the airwaves. Here's how it works:

What You Do: The basics -

Create an account
Create a member profile - a brief bio and a photo
Find radio pieces on the site that interest you
Listen to the free streaming audio
Review and rate pieces

What You Get: The benefits -

First-listen access to new work on the Public Radio Exchange
Write well, and you'll be considered for our Editorial Board (get paid to review pieces!)
Help discover great radio work for local stations to broadcast, and play an active role in the programming process.

The terms: Peer Review membership is free, but we expect you to listen to, rate, and review pieces on a regular basis.

Sign up! What are you waiting for?

Producer

PRX producers are aspiring or established creative radio producers aiming to get their best work on public radio stations around the country. If you have some brand new work or "evergreen" pieces that deserve a breath of broadcast air, put it on the PRX. Whether its commentary, documentary, feature, interview, fiction, or beyond category, if you think it should be on the radio, it belongs here. Note: if you are from a producing station or organization, see our "group" membership below.

What You Do: The basics -

Open a producer account on PRX.
Use the free PRX "drag and drop" tools to encode and upload your audio
Make pieces available for stations to license, download and broadcast
Create your own member profile with bio, photo, links
Upload marketing and other materials for each piece such as promos, images, transcripts
Set licensing terms for each piece
Listen to and review other radio pieces

What You Get: The benefits -

Market and distribute your work. Create and promote a one-stop shop for your best work, where stations can audition, license, and download your work for broadcast.
Get paid. Each time a station licenses your piece(s) we credit your account from the payment pool, and cut you a check each quarter.
Get feedback. Your pieces are available for review by our Editorial Board and Vox Pop reviewers.
Track carriage and account activity. See how many times your pieces were streamed, downloaded, reviewed, and view carriage reports by stations that license your work.

The terms: Producer membership is $50.00 per year. We charge $5/hour/year for space, with a 10-hour minimum. You can always buy additional hours at the same rate. Your fee helps cover our storage costs.

Free Starter Account Offer: Not ready to commit? PRX is also offering producers a free starter account.

Two hours of audio space
Note: you do not get paid when a station licenses your pieces unless you upgrade to a full paid membership

Starter accounts are good for one year.

Sign up! Just choose "producer" as your membership type.
Want to go Pro? Sign up for a username, and then upgrade to a paid account.

Producer Group

PRX Groups are creative production entities - collectives, partnerships, producing stations, events, conferences, training programs, college classes - that collaborate to produce radio pieces. A Producer Group can have multiple individual group members who manage their own accounts, and audio space, payments, and license terms are shared collectively.

What You Do: The basics -

Open an account on PRX with 30 hours of audio space to post your work
Create accounts for other members of your group
Upload audio for stations to license, download and broadcast. And get peer reviewed along the way.
Use the free PRX "drag and drop" tools to encode and upload your audio
Create your own group member profile with bio, photo, links to other pages; group members can also create their own member profile pages
Upload marketing and other materials: promos, photos, etc
Listen and review other producers' pieces

What You Get: The benefits -

Market and distribute your work...perhaps for the very first time. Create and promote the one-stop shop for your best work, where stations can audition, license, and download for broadcast.
Get paid. Each time a station licenses your piece(s) we credit your account from the payment pool, and cut you a check each quarter.
Get feedback. Your pieces are available for review by our Editorial Board and Vox Pop reviewers.
Track carriage and account activity. See how many times your pieces were streamed, downloaded, reviewed, and view carriage reports by stations that license your work.

The terms: Producer Group membership is $150.00 per year. We charge $5/hour/year for space, with a 30-hour minimum. You can always buy additional hours at the same rate. Your fee helps cover our storage costs.

Free Starter Account Offer: Not ready to commit? PRX is also offering Groups a free starter account.

Two hours of audio space
Note: you do not get paid for station licenses of your pieces unless you upgrade to a full membership

Starter accounts are good for one year.

Sign up! Just choose "producer" as your membership type, and then click the link to apply for a group account on the next page. It may take a week or so for us to process your group account request.
Want to go Pro? Once you get your group account, you can upgrade to a paid account.

Station

PRX stations are noncommercial radio stations looking for new, diverse, and exceptional radio programming. Whether you are from a large news and information station in a top 30 market, or an eclectic community radio station in a small town, on PRX you can find content to match the character of your station and its local presence. NOTE: On PRX stations are also producers: we encourage you to upload station-produced work for other stations to use. We also welcome state and regional station networks to use PRX for exchanging programming.

What You Do: The basics -

Open a paid station account with "points" for licensing up to 130 hours of radio content
You get 30 hours of audio space on PRX to hold the pieces you upload from your station.
Search, browse, and read reviews of radio pieces
Listen, find pieces you want, then license, download and broadcast.
Create a station member profile with station information, links to other pages
Add other station employees to share your account

What You Get: The benefits -

Search a diverse, peer-reviewed collection of radio pieces
Stream and download pieces for audition
Download broadcast quality audio for air, 24/7
Easily manage licensing and carriage reporting through online tools
A single annual payment covers all your acquisitions
Review and rate radio pieces
Upload station-produced pieces for other stations to license

The Terms: The PRX station membership fee is based on a percentage of your station's Total Station Revenue. To calculate your station's fee use our Station Membership Fee Calculator.

Enter your station's TSR--Total Station Revenue
Select from a variety of station membership plans (license anywhere from 26 hours to 130 hours of radio content) depending how much you want to spend and how much content you think you'll use over the course of 12 months
Questions? Contact Station Collaboration Manager John Barth at john@prx.org

Free Starter Account Offer: Not ready to commit? PRX is also offering stations a free starter account.

License up to 6 hours of audio for broadcast for free
Get two hours of audio space on PRX for offering work produced by your station
Note: your station will not be paid for licenses of your station's pieces unless you upgrade to a full paid PRX membership

Sign up! Just choose "station member" as your membership type, and then click the link to apply for a station account on the next page. It may take a week or so for us to process your station account request.
Want to go Pro? Use our Station Membership Fee Calculator to choose your membership package and contact memberships@prx.org.

Can I Buy/Download Pieces if I'm not a Station?

Yes! On a case-by-case basis PRX can set up accounts for commercial radio, Internet stations, podcasters, libraries and others interested in using work from the PRX catalog. Contact us at membership@prx.org for more information.