“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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Speaking of Faith®
Peabody Award-winning Speaking of Faith is public radio's conversation about belief, meaning, ethics and ideas. Each week, host Krista Tippett focuses on a different theme, asking writers, thinkers and theologians to discuss how religion shapes everyday life.
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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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As it Happens
Since 1968, this current affairs program has explored the heart of a story, whether it's happening in the streets of Belgrade, the dockyards of Vancouver, the boardrooms of Bay Street or the kitchens of Paris. Produced by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
Future Tense®
Produced and hosted by Jon Gordon, this daily "Journal of the Digital Age" keeps pace with the latest technology topics in daily five-minute capsules from electronic privacy and digital democracy to spam and computer worms.
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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 Peabody Award-winning host Brian Newhouse, 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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American Routes®
Hosted by Nick Spitzer, American Routes is a two-hour weekly excursion into American music, spanning eras and genres—roots rock and soul, blues and country, jazz, gospel and beyond.
The MTT Files™
The MTT Files, an eight-part Peabody Award-winning series hosted by San Francisco Symphony Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas. MTT metaphorically pulls out some of his "files"—files full of ideas about music, art and the legendary artists he has known throughout his career—and creates a set of very original and personal one-hour radio programs.
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.
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."
American Mavericks®
Hosted by singer/songwriter Suzanne Vega and inspired by the San Francisco Symphony's music festival, American Mavericks is a 13-part Peabody Award-winning radio series that explores the revolution behind concert music in the 20th century. Produced in association with the San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson Thomas, music director.
Classical music specials
A Festival of Nine Lessons and Carols»
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Cantus: All is Calm»
A Chanticleer Christmas»
A Choral Christmas Card»
Conspirare: Christmas at the Carillon»
Echoes of Christmas»
Giving Thanks»
A Harpist's Christmas»
Harvest Home: Thanksgiving with the Dale Warland Singers»
Music@Menlo»
Reflections: A Lenten Special with the Dale Warland Singers»
The Rose Ensemble: An Early American Christmas»
St. Olaf Christmas Festival»
Welcome Christmas»
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®
Hosted by award-winning Lynne Rossetto Kasper, The Splendid Table is a culinary, culture and lifestyle program that celebrates food and its ability to touch the lives and feed the souls of everyone.
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Sound Opinions®
Two of the nation's most respected rock critics, Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot, meet each week to interview artists, listen to performances, give the latest scoop in pop culture and review albums past and present.