{"id":2001,"date":"2017-12-20T18:28:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-20T23:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.prima.org\/?page_id=2001"},"modified":"2020-06-19T12:37:08","modified_gmt":"2020-06-19T16:37:08","slug":"december-20-2017","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wordpress.prima.org\/?page_id=2001","title":{"rendered":"December 20, 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Public Radio in Mid America<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Board of Directors Meeting<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>&nbsp; December 20, 2017<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Called to Order:<\/strong> 2:34 pm Eastern Time<\/p>\n<p>Present:&nbsp;Regina Dean, Tim Eby,&nbsp;Neenah Ellis, Kristina Kuzmych, Nico Leone, Paul Maassen,&nbsp;Steve Schram,&nbsp;Dan Skinner<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Board Discussed Planning and Ideas for the Spring PRIMA Conference.<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The member survey showed that Chicago emerged as top vote getter for spring conference.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">WBEZ can work with us to host. A few years ago we had the conference at WBEZ.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Possibility to see WWDTM.&nbsp; Looking at the first two weeks in May<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Reached out to a lot of people about participating.&nbsp; Dan is contacting&nbsp; potential speakers and will be able to do more once we have finalized a date.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Paul Maassen will manage the logistics, arranging for hotels, etc. &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>McCormick Place Hyatt was suggested as an option<\/li>\n<li>Paul will be in touch with Goli to see if attending WWDTM is an option.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Topics\/Guests Under Consideration: &nbsp;<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Representation from NPR to discuss <\/span><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">NPR related issues: &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li>Business Plan for NPR podcasts. How many does NPR plan to launch, what impact will it have on stations.<\/li>\n<li>Continue to provide feedback to NPR regarding the compact.<\/li>\n<li>What about inviting Development and Marketing SC+VPs?&nbsp; People like that idea.<\/li>\n<li>Suggestion made to invite Paul Haaga, Chairman of the Board<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">PRSS folks show and tell about the new interconnect equipment. Digital services. &nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 1rem;\">Smart speakers development as a platform.&nbsp; (Jacobs media again?)&nbsp; Update on digital.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Other agenda items:&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Tim Eby noted that NPR&#8217;s&nbsp;&nbsp;strategic plan has been approved that hasn\u2019t been shared with stations.<\/li>\n<li>Regina Dean says a good response for mid fiscal year dues. A huge deposit last week.&nbsp; Will have a fuller report next meeting for fy 18 membership.<\/li>\n<li>Steve Schramm reports that Jarl is eager to get back to work.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Meeting Adjorned at 3:05 pm.<\/p>\n<p>Submitted by board secretary Neenah Ellis<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public Radio in Mid America Board of Directors Meeting &nbsp; December 20, 2017 Called to Order: 2:34 pm Eastern Time Present:&nbsp;Regina Dean, Tim Eby,&nbsp;Neenah Ellis, Kristina Kuzmych, Nico Leone, Paul [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":64,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2001","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.prima.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.prima.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.prima.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.prima.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.prima.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2001"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.prima.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2719,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.prima.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2001\/revisions\/2719"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.prima.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/64"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wordpress.prima.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}