In 2001, Allison wrote the theme for NPR's On The Media, produced by WNYC and currently heard weekly by 1.5 million listeners.
He has also had a major radio special dedicated to his music on WNYC New York's New Sounds show hosted by John Schaefer.
The project culminated in late 2009 with a book, a radio series in collaboration with WNYC Radio in New York, and a traveling exhibition which opened at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts in February 2010 and will move to the Chicago Cultural Center in July 2010, the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University in February 2011, the Museum of Photographic Arts in San Diego May 2012, and the Center for Creative Photography at the University of Arizona through March 2013.
Some of the issues affecting Joseph that were widely reported included keeping public transportation fares limited ten cents, and the attempted closing of WNYC to curtail budget constraints upon the City.
They collaborated on numerous occasions with Meredith Monk, most recently traveling to New York in 2005 to participate in the 40th Anniversary Concert in Carnegie Hall as well as a performance at the World Financial Center Winter Garden, broadcast on WNYC.
Their music has been featured on Echoes (the syndicated NPR show) and New Sounds on WNYC in the U.S., and on Concertzender in the Netherlands.
Brand has for some years used an Americanized lyric of "Something to Sing About" as a theme song for his Folksong Festival radio program on WNYC in New York City.
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Leonard Lopate, introducing Ansell on WNYC, remembers Ansell calling Cook County Hospital “doctors within borders... his way of emphasizing the kind of third-world conditions that persist within a major US city that is also home to some of the best hospitals in the country.
He also worked in radio, at WNYC in 1976 (programming) and as a classical music host at WNED-FM (1977 to 1985) and WGUC (from 1985 to 1987).
Abumrad has reported and produced documentaries for a number of local and National Public Radio programs, including On the Media, PRI's Studio 360 with Kurt Andersen, Morning Edition, All Things Considered, Democracy Now!, and WNYC's "24 Hours at the Edge of Ground Zero".
In 2007 New York's WNYC aired a feature about the project on its program Soundcheck, narrated by Ralph Farris of the string quartet ETHEL.
His live performances and interviews have been broadcast on CBS, CNN, ABC, BBC, NBC, Reuters, Bloomberg TV, NPR, WNYC and WQXR.
The readings are recorded live and become the basis of a one-hour radio program, presently hosted by Parker Posey, with a so-called "literary commentator," Hannah Tinti of One Story Magazine, and are produced in conjunction with WNYC.