The precarious position of stations such as L.A.’s KCET stands in high relief when compared with the relative health and dynamism emanating from National Public Radio and its affiliates these days. More listeners continue to find public radio and, as evidenced by a couple of developments in recent days, the network and some of its executives want to make the footprint even larger.

The expansive news came from NPR Chief Executive Vivian Schiller and public radio’s most aggressive entrepreneur, Bill Kling of American Public Media and Minnesota Public Radio. Both discussed plans to improve public radio’s local coverage by putting more reporting boots on the ground.

via www.latimes.com

After all these years, there seems to be some real momentum building for our local news growth in public radio. Leadership has always been one big key, and what we are seeing here from Schiller and Kling is most encouraging. Let the funding flow and I guarantee the performance by stations will be there too.