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WNYC
WNYC is an audio service brand, under the control of New York Public Radio, a non-profit organization. Radio and other audio programming is primarily provided by a pair of nonprofit, noncommercial, public radio stations: WNYC (AM) and WNYC-FM, located in New York City. Both stations are members of NPR and carry local and national news/talk programs. WNYC reaches more than one million listeners each week and has the largest public radio audience in the United States. The WNYC stations are co-owned with Newark, New Jersey-licensed classical music outlet WQXR-FM (105.9 MHz), and all three broadcast from studios located in the Hudson Square neighborhood in lower Manhattan. WNYC has been an early adopter of new technologies including HD radio, live audio streaming, and podcasting. RSS feeds and email newsletters link to archived audio of individual program segments. WNYC also makes some of its programming available on Sirius XM satellite radio. Programming The WNYC ...
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WNYC Studios
WNYC Studios is a producer and distributor of podcasts and on-demand and broadcast audio. WNYC Studios is a subsidiary of New York Public Radio and is headquartered in New York City. History In May 2015, WNYC began distributing its shows '' Radiolab'' and '' On The Media''. WNYC Studios was founded on October 13, 2015, with an inventory of 17 podcasts and national radio shows. The venture is funded with a diversified model consisting of philanthropy, membership and sponsorship. The first podcast launched by WNYC Studios was ''The New Yorker Radio Hour'', a co-production with ''The New Yorker'' magazine. Hosted by ''The New Yorker'' editor David Remnick, the national radio show and podcast debuted on October 24, 2015. On March 29, 2016, WNYC Studios announced the launch of the '' 2 Dope Queens'' podcast hosted by '' The Daily Show''s Jessica Williams, and Broad City's Phoebe Robinson. ''2 Dope Queens'' premiered on April 5, 2016. On April 6, 2016, ''2 Dope Queens'' re ...
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WNYC (AM)
WNYC (820 kHz) is a non-commercial public broadcasting, public radio station, licensed to New York, New York. It, along with WNYC-FM, is one of the primary outlets for WNYC branded programming, provided by the non-profit New York Public Radio (NYPR). WNYC broadcasts from studios and offices located in the Hudson Square neighborhood in lower Manhattan, and its transmitter site is located in Kearny, New Jersey. WNYC has been an early adopter of new technologies including HD radio, live audio streaming, and podcasting. RSS feeds and email newsletters link to archived audio of individual program segments. WNYC makes all of its programming available on the WNYC app. Programming WNYC produces its own programming, including nationally syndicated shows such as ''On the Media'', ''Notes from America with Kai Wright'' and ''Radiolab'', as well as local news and interview shows that include ''All Of It with Alison Stewart'', ''New Sounds'' and ''The Brian Lehrer Show''. The entire sc ...
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WNYC-FM
WNYC-FM (93.9 MHz) is a non-commercial public radio station, licensed to New York, New York. It, along with WNYC (AM), is one of the primary outlets for WNYC branded programming provided by the non-profit New York Public Radio (NYPR). History Early years (1943–1994) WNYC-FM began regularly scheduled broadcasts on the FM band as W39NY on March 13, 1943, at 43.9 MHz, operating as the sister station to WNYC (AM). The station changed call letters to WNYC-FM later that year, and moved to 95.3 MHz in 1946, before settling on its cuirrent assignment of 93.9 MHz the next year. The Municipal Broadcasting System (which was renamed the WNYC Communications Group in 1989) helped to form NPR in 1971, and the WNYC stations were among the 90 stations that carried the inaugural broadcast of ''All Things Considered'' later that year. The station's ownership by the City meant that it was occasionally subject to the whims of various mayors. As part of a crackdown on prostitu ...
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Radiolab
''Radiolab'' is a radio program and podcast produced by WNYC, a public radio station based in New York City, and broadcast on more than 570 public radio stations in the United States. The show has earned many industry awards for its "imaginative use of radio" including a National Academies Communication Award and two Peabody Awards. Radiolab was founded by Jad Abumrad in 2002, and evolved into its current form by Abumrad with co-host Robert Krulwich and executive producer Ellen Horne. As of 2023, Radiolab is hosted by Latif Nasser and Lulu Miller. The show focuses on topics of a scientific, philosophical, and political nature. The show attempts to approach broad, difficult topics such as "time" and "morality" in an accessible and light-hearted manner and with a distinctive audio production style. History The original version of ''Radiolab'' was a three-hour weekly show on New York City radio station WNYC's AM signal. Abumrad, then a freelancer for WNYC, produced and host ...
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New York Public Radio
New York Public Radio (NYPR) is a New York City-based independent, publicly supported, Nonprofit organization, not-for-profit media organization incorporated in 1979. Its stated mission is "To make the mind more curious, the heart more open and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in New York." The organization's services are divided into multiple brands: * WNYC - Public radio and audio. Organized around New York City radio stations WNYC (AM) and WNYC-FM. * WQXR - Classical music radio and audio. Organized around New York City radio station WQXR-FM. * Gothamist - Gothamist.com website. * New Jersey Public Radio - Public radio and audio, organized around four northern New Jersey radio stations. * The Greene Space - Offerings of the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, located in the SoHo section of New York City. * WNYC Studios - Audio programming resource The NYPR stations broadcast from studios and offices at 160 Varick Street in the Hud ...
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Brian Lehrer
Brian Lehrer (born October 5, 1952) is an American radio talk show host on New York City's public radio station WNYC. His daily two-hour 2007 Peabody Award-winning program,Official Peabody Award Site Listing
'' The Brian Lehrer Show'', features interviews with newsmakers and experts about current events and social issues. Lehrer was formerly an anchor and reporter for NBC Radio Networks and has been in broadcast journalism for over 30 years.


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WQXR-FM
WQXR-FM (105.9 FM) is an American non-commercial classical radio station, licensed to Newark, New Jersey, and serving the North Jersey and New York City area. It is owned by the nonprofit organization New York Public Radio (NYPR), which also operates WNYC (AM), WNYC-FM and the four-station New Jersey Public Radio group. WQXR-FM broadcasts from studios and offices located in the Hudson Square neighborhood in lower Manhattan and its transmitter is located at the Empire State Building. The station is the core audio service for NYPR's WQXR brand. The current WQXR-FM is its second FM incarnation in the New York City area. The first WQXR-FM in turn traced its history to an earlier New York City station, WQXR, which broadcast on the AM band. Both of these earlier stations were commercial operations, broadcasting classical music and known as "the radio station of The New York Times". New York Public Radio acquired the WQXR-FM branding on July 14, 2009, as part of a three-way trade wh ...
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The New Yorker Radio Hour
''The New Yorker Radio Hour'' is a radio show and podcast produced by ''The New Yorker'' and WNYC Studios. It is hosted by David Remnick, who has been editor of ''The New Yorker'' since 1998. The first episode of ''The New Yorker Radio Hour'' debuted on October 24, 2015. ''The New Yorker Radio Hour'' is broadcast on more than 345 terrestrial radio stations, is also available on demand in a variety of ways. The weekly radio show and podcast features interviews with journalists and cartoonists from ''The New Yorker'' as well as interviews with artists, writers, comedians, filmmakers and other cultural figures. Past guests include Aziz Ansari, Sarah Koenig, Julián Castro, Larry David, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Gloria Steinem, and Amy Schumer. Format As defined by host David Remnick, ''The New Yorker Radio Hour'' is "an hourlong program that is very much of ''The New Yorker'', infused by its values, hosted by its writers and editors and artists, but also something unique, capacious, ...
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HD Radio
HD Radio (HDR) is a trademark for in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio broadcast technology. HD radio generally simulcast, simulcasts an existing analog radio station in digital format with less noise and with additional text information. HD Radio is used primarily by FM broadcasting, FM radio stations in the United States, U.S. Virgin Islands, Canada, Mexico and the Philippines, with a few implementations outside North America. HD Radio transmits the digital signals in unused portions of the same band as the analog AM and FM signals. As a result, radios are more easily designed to pick up both signals, which is why the HD in HD Radio is sometimes referred to stand for "hybrid digital", not "high definition". Officially, HD is not intended to stand for any term in HD Radio, it is simply part of iBiquity's trademark, and does not have any meaning on its own. HD Radios tune into the station's analog signal first and then look for a digital signal. The European DRM system shares c ...
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Newark, New Jersey
Newark ( , ) is the List of municipalities in New Jersey, most populous City (New Jersey), city in the U.S. state of New Jersey, the county seat of Essex County, New Jersey, Essex County, and a principal city of the New York metropolitan area.Table1. New Jersey Counties and Most Populous Cities and Townships: 2020 and 2010 Censuses
, New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development. Accessed December 1, 2022.
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Brooke Gladstone
Brooke Gladstone (born 1955) is an American journalist, author, and media analyst. She is the host and managing editor of the WNYC radio program '' On the Media''. Early life and education Gladstone was born in Long Island, New York, one of six siblings. She grew up in Syosset, and attended Syosset High School. Shortly before college, she moved with her family to the Northeast Kingdom area of Vermont, and ended up attending the University of Vermont, majoring in theatre and graduating in 1978. Career Gladstone has covered media for much of her career. In the early 1980s, she covered public broadcasting for the industry newspaper '' Current'' and reported for Cablevision and ''The Washington Weekly in Washington, D.C.'' In 1987, Gladstone joined National Public Radio, first as editor of '' Weekend Edition with Scott Simon'', and later became senior editor of '' All Things Considered''. In 1991, she received a Knight Fellowship to study Russian language and history. A y ...
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Fresh Air
''Fresh Air'' is an American radio talk show broadcast on National Public Radio stations across the United States since 1985. It is produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The show's hosts are Terry Gross and Tonya Mosley. , the show was syndicated to 624 stations and claimed nearly 5 million listeners. The show is fed live weekdays at 12:00 noon Eastern Time Zone, ET. In addition, some stations carry ''Fresh Air Weekend'', a re-programming of highlights of the week's interviews. In 2016, ''Fresh Air'' was the most-downloaded podcast on iTunes. Overview The show began in 1975 at WHYY (then called WUHY), with Judy Blank as host. In September of that year, Terry Gross took over as presenter and producer; nearly 50 years later she remains its chief presenter. In 1985, WHYY launched a weekly half-hour edition of ''Fresh Air'', which was distributed nationally by NPR. The show began daily national broadcasts in 1987. The show is composed primarily of i ...
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