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| Type | Public radio network |
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| Country | United States |
First air date | April 20, 1971 |
| Availability | Global |
| Founded | February 26, 1970 |
| Endowment | $368 million (2021)[1] |
| Revenue |  $309.7 million (2021)[1] |
| $29.99 million (2021)[1] | |
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| Parent | National Public Radio, Inc. |
Key people | John Lansing (CEO) |
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| Affiliation(s) | WRN Broadcast |
Official website | npr |
National Public Radio (NPR, stylized in all lowercase) is an American nonprofit media organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California.[2] It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States.[3] It differs from other non-profit membership media organizations such as the Associated Press, in that it was established by an act of Congress.[4]
Funding for NPR comes from dues and fees paid by member stations, underwriting from corporate sponsors and annual grants from the publicly funded Corporation for Public Broadcasting.[5] Most of its member stations are owned by non-profit organizations, including public school districts, colleges, and universities. NPR operates independently of any government or corporation, and has full control of its content.[6]
NPR produces and distributes both news and cultural programming. The organization's flagship shows are two drive-time news broadcasts: Morning Edition and the afternoon All Things Considered, both carried by most NPR member stations, and among the most popular radio programs in the country.[7][8] As of March 2018,[update] the drive-time programs attract an audience of 14.9 million and 14.7 million per week, respectively.[9]
NPR manages the Public Radio Satellite System, which distributes its programs and other programming from independent producers and networks such as American Public Media and Public Radio Exchange, and which also acts as a primary entry point for the Emergency Alert System. Its content is also available on-demand online, on mobile networks, and in many cases, as podcasts.[10] Several NPR stations also carry programs from British public broadcaster BBC World Service.
Name[]
The organization's legal name is National Public Radio and its trademarked brand is NPR; it is known by both names.[11] In June 2010, the organization announced that it was "making a conscious effort to consistently refer to ourselves as NPR on-air and online" because NPR is the common name for the organization and the tag line "This ... is NPR" has been used by its radio hosts for many years.[11] However, National Public Radio remains the legal name of the group, as it has been since 1970.[11]
See also[]
- Australian Broadcasting Corporation
- BBC Radio
- Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
- List of NPR personnel
- List of NPR stations
- NPR Berlin—before its closure, the only NPR affiliate operated by NPR itself
- Voice of America
- Sound Reporting: The NPR Guide to Audio Journalism and Production
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "National Public Radio 2021 and 2020 Consolidated Financial Statements" (PDF). National Public Radio. Archived (PDF) from the original on February 15, 2023. Retrieved February 11, 2023.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ Kuypers, Melissa (November 14, 2012). "Ten Years in Tinsel Town: NPR West Celebrates a Decade". NPR. https://www.npr.org/sections/npr-extra/2012/11/08/164679060/ten-years-in-tinsel-town-npr-west-celebrates-a-decade.
- ↑ "Audience". NPR. Archived from the original on November 5, 2019. Retrieved January 23, 2018.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ "Public Broadcasting Act of 1967". January 14, 2015. Archived from the original on December 10, 2020. Retrieved November 16, 2018.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ N; P; R (2013-06-20). "Public Radio Finances" (in en). NPR. https://www.npr.org/about-npr/178660742/public-radio-finances.
- ↑ This Is NPR: The First Forty Years. Chronicle Books. 2012. p. 433. ISBN 9781452120218.
- ↑ "All Things Considered". National Public Media. Archived from the original on June 12, 2019. Retrieved October 12, 2016.
Heard by 13.3 million people on 814 radio stations each week, All Things Considered is one of the most popular programs in America.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ Mitchell, Jack W. (2005). Listener supported: the culture and history of public radio. Greenwood Publishing Group. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-275-98352-9. https://books.google.com/books?id=KIwTKWj04wEC&pg=PA175. Retrieved May 4, 2020. "Conceived as "alternatives", Morning Edition and All Things Considered are the second and third most listened-to radio programs in the ..."
- ↑ "NPR Maintains Highest Ratings Ever". NPR.org. March 28, 2018. https://www.npr.org/about-npr/597590072/npr-maintains-highest-ratings-ever.
- ↑ "Podcast Directory". NPR. Archived from the original on October 14, 2021. Retrieved August 14, 2018.
{{cite web}}: - ↑ 11.0 11.1 11.2 Dana Davis Rehm, NPR: What's In A Name? Archived August 27, 2020, at the Wayback Machine, NPR (July 12, 2012).
Further reading[]
- Books about NPR : , Resources in your library, Resources in other libraries
- James T. Bennett. 2021. The History and Politics of Public Radio; A Comprehensive Analysis of Taxpayer-Financed US Broadcasting. Springer.
- Gibson, George H. Public Broadcasting: The Role of the Federal Government, 1919–1976 (Praeger Publishers, 1977). ISBN 9780030228315. OCLC 3167293.
- McCauley, Michael P. NPR: The Trials and Triumphs of National Public Radio (Columbia University Press, 2005). ISBN 9780231121606. OCLC 937175101.
- Magee, Sara. "All Things Considered: A Content Analysis of National Public Radio's Flagship News Magazine from 1999–2009". Journal of Radio & Audio Media (2013) 20#2 pp. 236–250.
External links[]
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- Elizabeth L. Young papers at the University of Maryland Libraries
- 50 Years of NPR (report series)
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