“Blazing hot media.” —Los Angeles Times
As the second largest producer and distributer of public radio programming in the nation, American Public Media has won nearly 1,000 broadcasting and journalism awards, including seven George Foster Peabody Awards, six Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, an Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Gold Baton Award and a GRAMMY Award.
American Public Media is also the largest producer and distributor of classical music programming in the country. We have a range of innovative music programming, from a 24-hour, seven-day-a-week classical music service to Performance Today, a daily two-hour classical music program, to weekly programs and specials that are mainstays of public radio. We also enjoy an exclusive partnership with the European Broadcasting Union, allowing us to broadcast special musical events like the popular Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols and a series of live broadcasts from the BBC Proms in London.
Our radio programming is complemented by a spectrum of new media content and platforms, including online Web streaming, podcasts, video, RSS feeds, interactive Web elements and extensive audio archives.
American Public Media has a partnership agreement with Gather.com, a social networking Web site that invites the public radio audience to share with others their observations, thoughts and perspectives.
News/Talk
Marketplace®
Hosted by Kai Ryssdal, award-winning Marketplace is public radio's daily magazine of business and economics. Airing weekday mornings and evenings, it boasts the largest audience for any business program in the U.S. on radio, cable or network television.
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Marketplace Morning Report®
Marketplace Morning Report is an eight-minute business news service airing weekday mornings, delivering a global business newscast and a special feature report, using the same confident, witty style that characterizes its parent program, Marketplace.
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Marketplace Money®
Each week on Marketplace Money, host Tess Vigeland looks at major national and international stories that impact the average listener's wallet. It's "the money show for the rest of us."
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Marketplace Tech Report™
Technology is reshaping our world; Marketplace Tech Report explores how through a daily five minute program, podcast, blog and Twitter feed. Host John Moe talks to newsmakers, innovators, visionaries and creators about how technology is expanding, informing and transforming everyday experience.
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Being™
Described as a cultural "phenomenon" by the New York Times, Being (formerly Speaking of Faith) is a Peabody and Webby Award-winning weekly program that airs on more than 240 stations. The program engages listeners across the spectrum of belief and non-belief in conversation about life's deepest questions.
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American RadioWorks®
American RadioWorks is the highly acclaimed documentary unit of American Public Media, hosted by Stephen Smith. Its hour-long specials provide in-depth reporting on public affairs, social and cultural subjects and the 20th century experience.
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The Story™
The Story with Dick Gordon brings the news home through first-person accounts. The live weekday program is passionate, personal, immediate and relevant to listeners, focusing on the news where it changes our lives, causes us to stop and rethink, inspires us.
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MUSIC
Performance Today®
Listeners experience the finest solo, chamber and symphonic works—not on CD, but in richly textured live performances recorded for broadcast. With host Fred Child.
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SymphonyCast®
SymphonyCast, with host Alison Young, is a two-hour weekly radio program featuring a full-length concert by a national or international symphony orchestra.
Pipedreams®
The eloquent and good-humored Michael Barone spotlights extraordinary instruments and performers playing awe-inspiring music as a part of Pipedreams.
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Composers Datebook®
John Zech hosts Composers Datebook, a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Produced in association with the American Composers Forum.
Classical 24®
A nationally syndicated classical music service dedicated to live classical music programming 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Classical Live™
Classical Live is a series of concert broadcasts carried live to our national audience. Each performance is hand-picked for its significance such as being the season gala opening, the first concert an orchestra has with a new conductor, and the opening of a new concert hall.
Carnegie Hall Live
Thanks to a new partnership with Carnegie Hall and WQXR, APM brings you Carnegie Hall Live, 12 "must-have" classical music events, broadcast live from the nation's most famous concert hall.
Saint Paul Sunday®
Each week host Bill McGlaughlin welcomes internationally renowned musicians into the studio for artistry and conversation, a combination The Los Angeles Times calls "ultimately addictive."
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ENTERTAINMENT
A Prairie Home Companion®
Live every Saturday night, A Prairie Home Companion features comedy sketches, music and Garrison Keillor's signature monologue, "The News from Lake Wobegon."
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The Writer's Almanac®
This five-minute radio gem is a listener favorite as host Garrison Keillor recounts the highlights of that day in history and reads a short poem or two.
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The Splendid Table®
The Splendid Table is radio's preeminent food program, airing on more than 300 public radio stations in the United States, plus SIRIUS satellite radio and World Radio Switzerland. Host Lynne Rossetto Kasper and producer Sally Swift create this award-winning program that explores the entire spectrum of food: from cheese making to finding wine bargains to the science of a great cup of coffee great to the best little greasy spoons in America.
