Will Lavender June 6, I like to listen to podcasts in the shower. I've been downloading TAM podcasts and honestly can't hear some of them. Robert Ashley June 6, This is really interesting. (Or, more problematically, way quieter, but that doesn’t render as well in ALL CAPS.)ĭo listeners actually care? Anecdotal evidence surfaced when On the Media, which according to the chart boasts one of the burlier waveforms, tweeted a link to Mook’s The weirdest one is ATC, which can have enormous shifts in volume from story to story. Such was the case recently when Current’s Ben Mook posted an NPR-produced chart, displaying in devastating clarity what we’ve all known: Some public radio content is WAY LOUDER than the rest. We try to answer such questions - by soliciting audience feedback, by its nature anecdotal, or by commissioning research, which is expensive and often poorly executed.īut there are moments of revelation when those limited modes of inquiry produce answers so conclusive and compelling that all attuned pubcasters perceive them subconsciously, like a great disturbance in the Force. Within a year, I found myself asking the eternal internal question: “Do listeners actually care about ?”

When I got my first job in public radio almost nine years ago, I was aware that I brought to the position a rare and valuable credential: a recent memory of what it was like to listen to public radio before working in it.Īlas, this precious resource, like so many others, proved nonrenewable.

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