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KSUA

KUAC, the Fairbanks North Star Borough's public radio station, went on the air October 1, 1962, operating out of the Constitution Hall studios KSUA now occupies.

Lynn Neary

Neary began her career in public radio as a news anchor and reporter, covering education and county government at NPR member station WOSU in Columbus, Ohio.

Terry Drinkwater

Drinkwater's first major break in broadcasting came when he was hired in 1959 as general manager of Pacifica Radio KPFK-FM, a public station in Los Angeles.

Texas Public Radio

Texas Public Radio, or TPR is the on-air name for a group of public radio stations serving south central Texas - including San Antonio and the Texas Hill Country - and the Big Country region of West Central Texas.


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America Abroad

Anchored by public radio host Ray Suarez, America Abroad is distributed by Public Radio International (PRI) and broadcasts on public radio stations around the United States.

Automatics

The improbable and belated rediscovery of Philp led National Public Radio's Ira Glass to conduct an interview with Philp on This American Life.

Caitlin Halligan

In 2009, Nina Totenberg of National Public Radio included Halligan's name on a list of possible nominees to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Carol Coletta

Carol Coletta is director of ArtPlace, a collaboration of leading national and regional foundations, federal agencies including the National Endowment for the Arts, and major banks to accelerate creative placemaking across the U.S. Previously, she served as President and CEO of CEOs for Cities and host and producer of the nationally syndicated public radio show Smart City.

Charlayne Hunter-Gault

She worked in Johannesburg, South Africa, as National Public Radio's chief correspondent in Africa from 1997 to 1999.

Charles Harrington Elster

In 1998, he, along with Richard Lederer, became founding co-hosts of the weekly radio showA Way with Words, broadcast by KPBS, San Diego Public Radio, and heard worldwide via streaming internet and podcast.

Cincinnati Public Radio Inc.

Cincinnati Public Radio, Inc. is the broadcast license holder for WGUC (90.9) and WVXU (91.7), two FM radio stations serving the Greater Cincinnati area with classical music, news, information, and entertainment programming.

CKND-DT

In 1981, KCND became the call letters for KCND-FM, the first Prairie Public Radio (now North Dakota Public Radio) station in Bismarck, North Dakota.

Commonwealth Club

Commonwealth Club of California, located in the San Francisco Bay Area, America's oldest public affairs forum, broadcast on some National Public Radio stations

Cynthia Cozette Lee

From 1982 to 1984, Cozette produced and hosted her own classical music radio interview program on WPEB Public Radio entitled Classical Reflections.

Darleen Wilson

Darleen Wilson is a Boston, Massachusetts-based folk musician, recording engineer, producer, and Director of Content for Integrated Media at public radio and television station WGBH.

David R. Barker

He has also been featured on radio programs such as Marketplace, As It Happens, The Jerry Doyle Show, The Santita Jackson Show, Pratt on Texas, Iowa Public Radio and many others.

Dayenu

Pianist Richard Dworsky does a rendition of the song "Dayenu" every year during Passover on the public radio program A Prairie Home Companion.

Dylan Keefe

Although Dylan is still a part of the rock trio today, for a limited time he was the Technical Director for the weekly public radio program On the Media, based in New York City, and the Technical Director on another NYC-based public radio program The Takeaway.

Edward Wyckoff Williams

His work has also been featured on National Public Radio by NPR's Talk of the Nation with Neal Conan.

From the Top

From the Top’s landmark radio showcase of America’s top young classical musicians with host Christopher O'Riley is distributed by NPR to nearly 250 public radio stations nationwide.

Grace Cavalieri

Cavalieri stopped airing "The Poet and the Poem" through WPFW-FM in 1997, and she now presents this series to public radio from the Library of Congress via NPR satellite.

Ira Glass

In 2009, Glass was named the recipient of the Edward R. Murrow Award for Outstanding Contributions to Public Radio.

Írafár

She was then chosen to represent Icelandic public radio and television in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003 in Riga, Latvia.

Jared C. Monti

In May, 2013, Connie Harrington, songwriter of Lee Brice's number one country hit "I Drive Your Truck," revealed that she wrote the song after listening to Monti's father, Paul, on the public radio program Here & Now.

Jeffrey Rayport

In addition, he is a trustee of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA; a director of the Nantucket Preservation Trust in Nantucket, MA; and a director of From the Top (a classical music program distributed in the United States by National Public Radio) in Boston, MA.

John Diliberto

John grew up in Massachusetts and attended the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he was a DJ on the university-owned public radio station WXPN.

Kai Ryssdal

Before joining Marketplace, Ryssdal was a reporter and substitute host for The California Report, a news and information program distributed to public radio stations throughout California by KQED-FM in San Francisco.

KMNQ

Both stations were operated as The KLBB Company, a for-profit subsidiary of the Greenspring Company owned by American Public Media Group, which operates Minnesota Public Radio and other properties.

Laura Lorson

Laura Lorson is public radio producer and host residing in Perry, Kansas.

Luke Burbank

Burbank spent two months as host of NPR's short-lived morning show The Bryant Park Project, an experiment in alternate programming by the network that aired on 13 public radio stations.

Mary Kelly

Mary Louise Kelly, National Public Radio's senior Pentagon correspondent

Matt Dellinger

He lives in Brooklyn, New York, and blogs for public radio’s TransportationNation.org.

Michael Maron

He became a professional portrait artist at the age of twelve, dabbled in acting and modeling, appeared in television commercials, and hosted his own radio show on KCRW National Public Radio.

Oliver Welke

Together with Oliver Kalkofe, whom he met while working for a public radio station, he provided the German voices for Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie and the British comedy show Little Britain, and also co-wrote the script for the crime film parody Der WiXXer.

Paris to the Moon

This essay was later recorded for the public radio program This American Life by Gopnik himself.

Radio Upper West

Radio Upper West is a public radio station in Wa, the capital town of the Upper West Region of Ghana.

Rock the Garden

Launched by the Walker in 1998, the event has been cosponsored by 89.3 The Current and Minnesota Public Radio since 2008, becoming more of an indie rock festival.

Roger Douglas

It replaced the monopoly New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation with two competing publicly owned television channels, Television One, and Television Two (later called South Pacific Television) a corporation to manage public radio, Radio New Zealand, and a new Broadcasting Council.

Sasha Anawalt

Anawalt wrote about dance, theater and television for numerous publications, including the New York Times, and served as dance critic for National Public Radio’s affiliate in Santa Monica, KCRW, for a dozen years beginning in 1984, as well as for the L.A. Weekly (1997-1999).

Shay Youngblood

She also completed a radio play, Explain Me the Blues, for WBGO Public Radio's Jazz Play Series.

Sheri Fink

She has contributed to the public radio news magazine Public Radio International (PRI)’s The World covering a number of topics including the global HIV/AIDS pandemic and international aid in development, conflict and disaster settings.

Stephanie Nakasian

She has appeared frequently as a guest artist with the Jim Cullum Jazz Band on their internationally syndicated public radio show, Riverwalk Jazz, to portray a variety of jazz singers.

Steve Julian

Steve Julian is the Morning Edition Host for Southern California National Public Radio affiliate 89.3 KPCC in Pasadena, California.

Télam

The state's news media outlets were merged in 2001, and the agency joined public television (Canal 7) and public radio (LRA Radio Nacional) within the Servicio Nacional de Medios Públicos (National Service of Public Media).

The Current

KCMP, a Minnesota Public Radio station known as "The Current"

Virginia Tech Foundation

WVTF A National Public Radio affiliate, WVTF provides public radio services via 13 transmitters to much of Virginia and portions of North Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia.

WCVE-TV

When Union Theological Seminary & Presbyterian School of Christian Education announced its plans to give up its public radio license for WRFK, which had assumed a fine music format from WFMV.

Weekend America

Public radio veterans Bill Radke and Barbara Bogaev, based in Los Angeles, served as hosts during the pilot stage and early national phase.

XM Classics

The program director for XM Classics was Martin Goldsmith (previously the longtime host of the public radio series Performance Today).

Yellowstone Public Radio

It renamed itself Yellowstone Public Radio in 1994, reflecting that its coverage area spanned across most of the area around Yellowstone National Park.