5,400?

I heard this morning on WUNC that they are up to 5,400 contributors for this travel lottery fund raiser. They keep talking about how much left to be raised, but I don't hear them say how much they have actually raised in payments and pledges. It would be interesting to know how this compares with efforts in previous years.

Naturally for WUNC, there is no information at all on the status of the fund raiser on their website.

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They seem to be saying the number has now gone above 6,000 as of the morning of 1 May.

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Still nothing on the WUNC website about the results, but I think they said on-air today - 5 May - that 7,500 people had contributed or pledged to contribute later.

"WUNC opens Greensboro bureau" - News & Observer

Let's see....all of the stories reported from Greensboro are where, exactly, on the WUNC site? Maybe a couple of items in the last month, at least according to this search. For WUNC, I guess they think that's a lot.

"Good News for NPR: Its Most Listeners Ever" - washingtonpost.com

So, what are the specific numbers for WUNC during all those hours when it is simply relaying the NPR programming to listeners? How do those numbers compare with the number of people who listen to the vast minority of hours when WUNC broadcasts its own programming, including "The Story"? I'd love to see some charts that show WUNC's assumptions - and, of course, that's all they are in the end - about how many people listen to what.

BBC Global Minds

Does WUNC have one of these "online communities"? I don't recall having seen such an opportunity.

Global Health Connections

It sure would be nice to know how much the grant was for this project and what was required? Were any requirements or restrictions imposed on the stories that we are hearing?

"Connie Walker named general manager of WUNC radio" - WUNC

Maybe she'll start off explaining how a station that only serves a portion of the state can call itself "North Carolina Public Radio"?

"General Manager -- WUNC FM" - JournalismJobs.com

"Lincoln Center and WNET Team Up for Studio Project at the Performing Arts Center" - NYTimes.com

WNET teasm with the Lincoln Center and WUNC chooses the American Tobacco Center. I still cannot quite understand how WUNC agreed to keep the word tobacco on the air every time they mention their studio in Durham. Isn't there some way to idenitfy their location with a street address?

In view of that graf, this NPR All Things Considered story is a perfect chaser.