Developed on modest budgets, many of the newcomers are aimed at a decidedly younger audience than currently listens to NPR; some aim for diverse listeners.
"The Gershwin Prize was created to honor an artist whose creative output transcends distinctions between musical styles and idioms, bringing diverse listeners together and fostering mutual understanding and appreciation," the Librarian of Congress, James H. Billington, said in a statement.
New York's changing radio landscape mirrors the trends in Chicago, Los Angeles, Washington and other diverse cities, where listeners can stumble upon stations broadcasting in Arabic, Vietnamese or Korean.
Effortlessly drawing connections between the smallest startups and the biggest corporations, he manages to make the absolutely essential, road-to-success business values relatable to his very diverse bunch of listeners.
It also received praise for introducing rock music listeners to diverse forms of underground music.
Appealing to his diverse audience, Muñoz reminds listeners that, if elected, he would be the first Hispanic mayor of New York City.
Country, rock, progressive rock, soul, Americana, R&B, jazz and pop would often end up spinning on the same turn-tables during a single DJ's show, exposing listeners to diverse set of styles and tastes.
True to form, the two-hour session is a display of diverse music that gives listeners an idea of what Loft parties sounded like, featuring artists such as Bernie Krause, Francois Kevorkian, Brian Eno & David Byrne, Ozo, and Barrabas.
A later development was the quiz show style of Information, Please, which involved a panel answering questions on diverse subjects mailed in by listeners.
Listeners identified a diverse set of recorded environmental sounds (footsteps, animal vocalizations, vehicles moving, hammering, etc). in an open set recognition task.
Not only does it deliver a diverse audience of 99 million listeners a month, but that delivery includes the hard-to-reach Generation X and Millennials in ever greater numbers.
