The Weekend America Press Room provides information and resources to media professionals. On this page, you will find:
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Members of the media should contact:
Connie Molby
National Publicity Manager
(651) 290-1113; cmolby@americanpublicmedia.us
Program Overview
Weekend America is a two-hour program designed to fit the weekend state of mind. The program, hosted by Barbara Bogaev and Bill Radke, features short, entertaining segments on newsmakers, issues of the day and the arts. Weekend America is smart radio that fits into every Saturday routine, offering listeners thoughtful, engaging stories produced by the best radio talent across the country. Weekend America reflects America back to itself—its people, places and activities. Weekend America—because weekends are for listening to public radio.
Weekend America (formerly Public Radio Weekend), is scheduled for national launch in October 2004.
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Press Releases
PUBLIC RADIO WEEKEND CHANGES NAME TO WEEKEND AMERICA (St. Paul, Minn.) September 1, 2004 Go to Top of Page
Host and Staff Bios
 Barbara Bogaev, Co-host
Barbara Bogaev's broadcast experience bridges television and radio, behind the scenes and in front of the mike. Before joining Weekend America, Bogaev was known for her informed and winsome presence as the interviewer who filled in for Terry Gross on NPR's Fresh Air. She has also hosted a weekly radio newsmagazine on health and medicine, and produced sound features and in-depth documentaries on topics as varied as technology in education, riverboat captains, and poetry. She still serves as the host of public radio's longest-running national weekly documentary series, Soundprint. Bogaev's other broadcast experience includes writing and production work for a PBS television series and serving as a freelance costumer, locations scout, production accountant and script supervisor for television series and films by Nickelodeon, CBS and others. She has also frequently anchored Philadelphia station WHYY's local live two-hour public affairs and popular culture talk show, Radio Times with Marty Moss Coane, and was the original producer of the show.
 Bill Radke, Co-host
Bill Radke brings a long and distinguished career to Weekend America. Most recently, Bill was the creator, writer and host of Rewind, a weekly news satire program broadcast by KUOW-FM in Seattle. Radke began his radio career at KUOW in 1986 while a student at the University of Washington. After graduating from school, he hosted a newsmagazine at WMFE in Orlando, Florida. He later returned to Seattle as a KUOW reporter and Morning Edition host and eventually became the station's news director. A winner of the Seattle International Stand-Up Comedy Competition, he wrote a weekly news and humor column for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. In 2003 Radke added author to his accomplishments with his first book, "Seattle" from Sasquatch Books.
Jim Russell, Executive Producer
Other Staff
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