Frequently Asked Questions

Can our stations cherry-pick individual HV hours?

Yes, if you must. The weekly hours are for stations that air the weekly series. Also, about once a month we'll offer all stations one of the weeklies-- an hour connected to a holiday. Those will be on PRX for a charge (PRX points). However if your station wishes to start running the series, but not every episode, this is allowed. The 6-month no-charge for the series, though, begins when you first start airing the hours, whether weekly, or cherry-picked.

What does the series cost?

No charge for the 2008. Partial charge for 2009: about $300-$3K yearly fee, based on station size. Full charge for 2010: about $600-$7K. Below are the costs by Total Station Revenue (TSR). Stations do not have to be NPR members to broadcast series. (If cost is a problem, contact us: we will work out a deal.):

TSR Level Tier Hearing Voices
2008 Fee		 Hearing Voices
2009 Fee		 Hearing Voices
2010 Fee
10,613,593 And above 25 $0 $3,311 $6,788
8,665,257 10,613,592 24 $0 $2,980 $6,110
7,074,577 8,665,256 23 $0 $2,682 $5,499
5,775,898 7,074,576 22 $0 $2,474 $5,072
4,715,618 5,775,897 21 $0 $2,227 $4,565
3,849,972 4,715,617 20 $0 $2,004 $4,109
3,143,234 3,849,971 19 $0 $1,804 $3,698
2,566,231 3,143,233 18 $0 $1,623 $3,328
2,095,148 2,566,230 17 $0 $1,461 $2,995
1,710,543 2,095,147 16 $0 $1,315 $2,696
1,396,539 1,710,542 15 $0 $1,183 $2,426
1,140,176 1,396,538 14 $0 $1,065 $2,184
930,875 1,140,175 13 $0 $959 $1,965
759,994 930,874 12 $0 $863 $1,769
620,482 759,993 11 $0 $776 $1,592
506,581 620,481 10 $0 $699 $1,433
413,588 506,580 9 $0 $629 $1,289
337,666 413,587 8 $0 $566 $1,160
275,681 337,665 7 $0 $509 $1,044
225,074 275,680 6 $0 $459 $940
183,758 225,073 5 $0 $413 $846
150,025 183,757 4 $0 $371 $761
122,485 150,024 3 $0 $334 $685
100,001 122,484 2 $0 $301 $617
0 100,000 1 $0 $271 $555
Is there a Promo?

Yes. The Series will have generic promos. And each Show hour will have its own recorded 0:30 promo
with a 0:06 bed at end of station info. Each hour will also have 0:15 promo text for station announcers.

Where can we get the series?

Soundfiles are available by subscribing to the series via PRSS-ContentDepot:
https://contentdepot.prss.org/portal/cd.portal
(Series subscription info: 800-971-7677)

We also have satellite-quality mp2s at PRX:
http://www.prx.org/series/23618

And we have broadcast-quality mp3s here at our station site:
http://hearingvoices.com/shows

Where are the breaks? Are the hours newscast compatible?

Yes. Each hour will be delivered as five soundfiles-
1 Billboard/Intro 1:00*
2 Segment A 23:00
3 Break 1:00
4 Segment A 29:00
5 Promo 0:30

(Sound is out 1-second before the end of each above file.)

* The Billboard is designed so it can work either before the news,
or directly before the First Half.

Is the content FCC safe?

Always. We remove the words "f@#k" and "sh%t" and several other terms. We do not use anything the FCC would deem "sexually explicit language" or "describing excretory activity."

However, the current atmosphere in public radio makes it necessary to go further for some stations, to flag content that might make even a single listener uneasy. So even if there is no question as to the legality of content, we will provide station with the times of content in our hours they may want to evaluate, particularly if there is, as Ira Glass said in an intro, anything that "acknowledges the existence of sex in this story, though with no explicit scenes, words, or ideas." And we will always have a "safe" evergreen episode available as a replacement.

Must we be an NPR member station to air the Series?

No. We are distributed by NPR, but our agreement lets us allow non-NPR stations run the series as well.

Who do we contact?

Creative PR http://creativepr.org/order.html
Kathy Gronau 888.233.5650 kathy@creativepr.org