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Marfa Public Radio Launches Sleep Podcast Featuring Boring Operational Documents for Fall Membership Drive

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7h ago· 1 min readen

Summary

Marfa Public Radio is launching a fall membership drive featuring a sleep podcast that reads boring operational documents (FCC compliance, NPR ethics codes, etc.) to listeners. The station operates 24/7 and hopes to lull listeners to sleep with tedious content, then encourage donations upon waking.

Source

Hacker NewsMarfa Public Radio Launches Sleep Podcast Featuring Boring Operational Documents for Fall Membership Drivemarfapublicradio.org

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Marfa Public Radio is literally never asleep.
We may never be able to explain what it takes to operate the station, but we can put you to sleep trying to.
For this fall membership drive we bring you Marfa Public Radio Puts You to Sleep.
It's a sleep podcast wherein we read you the boring documents essential to our jobs, in the hopes we might lull you into slumber.
We do actually hope that you fall asleep listening to this, but when you wake up, help us continue to read our boring documents and keep Marfa Public Radio awake by donating to the station.
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Marfa Public Radio is literally never asleep. It operates 24/7 (except when lightning strikes) and there’s so much that goes on behind the scenes to make this happen– fundraising, compliance, protocols, emergency response, maintenance…the list goes on and

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