Broadcasting Schedule
- Sunday
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Evening Classics
12:00 am - 4:59 am Evening Classics
299 minutes Evenings Classics with Peter Van de Graaff is classical music culled from WFMT’s extensive library of more than 85,000 recordings and is provided through the Beethoven Network — a network originally designed to help public radio stations expand their local operation and improve the quality of late night programming. MORE> -
Composers Datebook
5:00 am - 5:06 am Composers Datebook
6 minutes Composers Datebook is a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Each program notes significant or intriguing musical events involving composers of the past and present—with appropriate and accessible music related to each.MORE> -
Morning Classics
5:06 am - 6:59 am Morning Classics
113 minutes Morning Classics with Peter Van de Graaff is classical music culled from WFMT’s extensive library of more than 85,000 recordings and is provided through the Beethoven Network. MORE> -
The New Yorker Radio Hour
7:00 am - 8:00 am The New Yorker Radio Hour
60 minutes The New Yorker Radio Hour is the program you will look forward to curling up with every weekend. David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, is joined by the magazine’s award-winning writers in a weekly hour of radio that delights and informs. The show features a mix of profiles, storytelling, and insightful conversations about the issues that matter, plus an occasional blast of comic genius from the magazine’s legendary Shouts and Murmurs page. The New Yorker has set a standard in literary journalism for generations, and The New Yorker Radio Hour gives it a voice on public radio for the first time.MORE> -
Weekend Edition Sunday
8:00 am - 10:00 am Weekend Edition Sunday
120 minutes Whether revealing events in small-town America or overseas, or profiling notable personalities, Weekend Edition from NPR News appreciates the extraordinary details that make up every story. This two-hour weekend morning newsmagazine covers hard news, a wide variety of newsmakers, and cultural stories with care, accuracy, and a wink of humor. Weekend Edition Sunday with Lulu Garcia-Navarro combines the news with colorful arts and human-interest features, appealing to the curious and eclectic. The show features interviews with newsmakers, artists, scientists, politicians, musicians, writers, theologians and historians. And the highlight for many listeners is the puzzle segment with Puzzlemaster Will Shortz, the crossword puzzle editor of The New York Times. MORE> -
TED Radio Hour
10:00 am - 11:00 am TED Radio Hour
60 minutes A journey through fascinating ideas, astonishing inventions, and new ways to think and create. Based on riveting TEDTalks from the world's most remarkable minds. The program is hosted by Guy Raz, who served for much of the 2000s as a correspondent covering eastern Europe and the Middle East, and who most recently was weekend host of NPR News’ afternoon news magazine All Things Considered.MORE> -
Travel with Rick Steves
11:00 am - 12:00 pm Travel with Rick Steves
60 minutes Travel with Rick Steves is a weekly one-hour conversation about travel, cultures, people and the things we find around the world that give life its extra sparkle. Rick Steves is the leading authority on travel to Europe and is extending his interest to global topics. A lively mix of guest interviews and listener calls, "Travel with Rick Steves" goes beyond the Europe that Mr. Steves is famous for, with shows covering travel and cultures across every continent. The author of 30 travel guidebooks and longtime host of the "Rick Steves' Europe" TV series, Steves started the radio program due to its ability to interact with listeners in ways that TV cannot. MORE> -
Mountain Stage
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Mountain Stage
120 minutes Mountain Stage offers its listeners the best seats in the house for performances captured in front of a live audience by established stars and emerging artists. Hosted by Kathy Mattea, each two-hour episode features seasoned legends and emerging stars in genres ranging from folk, blues, and country to indie rock, pop, world music, alternative, and beyond. Mountain Stage is recorded before a live audience at the Culture Center Theater in Charleston, West Virginia, and occasionally travels to other venues elsewhere in the United States.MORE> -
Sunday Afternoon Classics
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm Sunday Afternoon Classics
180 minutes Sunday Afternoon Classics with Peter Van de Graaff is classical music culled from WFMT’s extensive library of more than 85,000 recordings and is provided through the Beethoven Network. MORE> -
All Things Considered
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm All Things Considered
60 minutes NPR's flagship evening newsmagazine delivers in-depth reporting and transforms the way listeners understand current events and view the world. Every weekday, hosts Audie Cornish, Mary Louise Kelly, and Ari Shapiro present two hours of breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special — sometimes quirky — features, along with local Indiana news by Stephanie Wiechmann. A one-hour edition of the program runs on Saturday and Sunday, hosted by Michel Martin. The show keeps listeners informed of breaking news and business updates all weekend long, by intelligently combining hard news and cultural commentary from across America and around the world.MORE> -
Fiesta!
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm Fiesta!
60 minutes Fiesta is a weekly classical music program devoted to Latin American and Iberian music from the 16th to 21st century, and brings artistically and historically significant compositions and artists to you. Acclaimed composer, musician, and professor Elbio Barilari is your guide on this adventure through a rich musical landscape. We invite you to enjoy and learn about the lively, compelling, and rarely-heard treasures of Latino classical music from around the world. Interviews with composers, conductors, and musicians enrich the music. Previous guests on Fiesta have included Eduardo Fernández, Carlos Kalmar, Piotr Nawrot, and José Serebrier.MORE> -
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
60 minutes These programs, hosted by Elliott Forrest, feature live recorded performances by leading chamber music players from around the world. Programs feature enlightening commentary from CMS Co-Artistic Director David Finckel, and the performers.MORE> -
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Chicago Symphony Orchestra
120 minutes Chicago concertgoers know the thunderclap precision and exquisite artistry of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. With this radio series – and a record number of Grammy Award-winning recordings – the CSO sets the standard for musicians. The Chicago Symphony presents the full range of orchestral works under the seasoned baton of music director Riccardo Muti. The top tier soloists and guest conductors complete the series with artists like Yo-Yo Ma, Matthias Goerne, and Daniil Trifonov; as well as Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mitsuko Uchida, and Bernard Haitink. Hosted by Lisa Simeone, the two-hour Chicago Symphony Orchestra broadcasts include dynamic and innovative commentary, which takes the listener behind the scenes and into the music.MORE> -
Harmonia
10:00 pm - 11:00 pm Harmonia
60 minutes Harmonia is a weekly one-hour radio program that takes listeners back in history to the cathedrals, fairs, and stages of the past, teaching listeners about history as documented by musicians of the periods. Through brilliant performances by today's early music artists and insightful commentary, listeners experience the richness of early music history and culture. From the sublime realm of Chant to the passion of an Italian Baroque violin sonata, Harmonia casts new light on the music of the distant past.MORE> -
Evening Classics
11:00 pm - 12:00 am Evening Classics
60 minutes Evenings Classics with Peter Van de Graaff is classical music culled from WFMT’s extensive library of more than 85,000 recordings and is provided through the Beethoven Network — a network originally designed to help public radio stations expand their local operation and improve the quality of late night programming. MORE>
- Monday
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Evening Classics
12:00 am - 4:59 am Evening Classics
299 minutes Evenings Classics with Peter Van de Graaff is classical music culled from WFMT’s extensive library of more than 85,000 recordings and is provided through the Beethoven Network — a network originally designed to help public radio stations expand their local operation and improve the quality of late night programming. MORE> -
Morning Edition
5:00 am - 10:00 am Morning Edition
300 minutes Hosted by Steve Inskeep, Rachel Martin and David Greene, with local news from Stan Sollars, Morning Edition takes listeners around the country, the world, and Indiana with multi-faceted stories and commentaries every weekday. For over three decades, NPR's Morning Edition has prepared listeners for the day ahead with up-to-the-minute news, background analysis and commentary. Regularly heard on Morning Edition are familiar voices, including commentators Cokie Roberts and Frank Deford, as well as the special series StoryCorps, the largest oral history project in American history. Morning Edition has garnered broadcasting's highest honors -- including the George Foster Peabody Award and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award.MORE> -
Composers Datebook
10:00 am - 10:06 am Composers Datebook
6 minutes Composers Datebook is a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Each program notes significant or intriguing musical events involving composers of the past and present—with appropriate and accessible music related to each.MORE> -
Morning Classics
10:06 am - 11:59 am Morning Classics
113 minutes Morning Classics with Peter Van de Graaff is classical music culled from WFMT’s extensive library of more than 85,000 recordings and is provided through the Beethoven Network. MORE> -
Here & Now
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Here & Now
120 minutes A live production of NPR and WBUR Boston, in collaboration with public radio stations across the country, Here & Now reflects the fluid world of news as it’s happening in the middle of the day, with timely, smart and in-depth news, interviews and conversation.MORE> -
Fresh Air
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Fresh Air
60 minutes Fresh Air with Terry Gross is one of public radio's most popular programs. Each week, nearly 4.5 million people listen to the show's intimate conversations broadcast on more than 450 NPR stations across the country, as well as in Europe on the World Radio Network. Though Fresh Air has been categorized as a "talk show," it hardly fits the mold. Its 1994 Peabody Award citation credits Fresh Air with "probing questions, revelatory interviews and unusual insights." And a variety of top publications count Gross among the country's leading interviewers. The show gives interviews as much time as needed, and complements them with comments from well-known critics and commentators.MORE> -
Yale Climate Connections
3:00 pm - 3:06 pm Yale Climate Connections
6 minutes Yale Climate Connections aims to help citizens and institutions understand how the changing climate is already affecting our lives. It seeks to help individuals, corporations, media, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, academics, artists, and more learn from each other about constructive “solutions” so many are undertaking to reduce climate-related risks and wasteful energy practices. We “connect the dots” between climate change and energy, extreme weather, public health, food and water, jobs and the economy, national security, the creative arts, and religious and moral values, among other themes. Edited by veteran journalist and journalism educator Bud Ward, Yale Climate Connections is an initiative of the Yale Center for Environmental Communication (YCEC), directed by Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University.MORE> -
The World
3:06 pm - 4:00 pm The World
54 minutes The World is your world revealed. It's about the events, trends, and personal tales that connect us around the globe. Marco Werman hosts an hour of surprising angles, unexpected insights, and engaging voices to illuminate what's going on in the world and why it matters to you. Reporters and editors for The World seek voices of people around the globe to reveal what's happening and why. Bringing this new global journalism to the United States, The World's unique editorial perspective brings energy and passion to each day's broadcast. The goal: to take us beyond borders and boundaries, and fire up our curiosity about a fascinating, messy, contentious and beautiful planet. It's about exploration and risk, war and peace, fun and folly, and how our daily drama plays out around the globe.MORE> -
All Things Considered
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm All Things Considered
180 minutes NPR's flagship evening newsmagazine delivers in-depth reporting and transforms the way listeners understand current events and view the world. Every weekday, hosts Audie Cornish, Mary Louise Kelly, and Ari Shapiro present two hours of breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special — sometimes quirky — features, along with local Indiana news by Stephanie Wiechmann. A one-hour edition of the program runs on Saturday and Sunday, hosted by Michel Martin. The show keeps listeners informed of breaking news and business updates all weekend long, by intelligently combining hard news and cultural commentary from across America and around the world.MORE> -
World Cafe
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm World Cafe
60 minutes Since 1991, World Cafe®, has emerged as the premier public radio showcase for contemporary music serving up an eclectic blend that includes blues, rock, world, folk, and alternative country. The show is hosted by long-time Philadelphia radio personality David Dye. A passionate music enthusiast, Dye takes you on a unique journey of musical discovery as he presents a mix of music from both new and legendary artists. Live performances and intimate interviews with Dye's musical guests highlight each day's show. The show's guest roster has included Joni Mitchell, David Bowie, Dave Matthews, Elvis Costello, Robert Plant, Dolly Parton, The Shins, Lucinda Williams, Paul McCartney, Ani Difranco, Damien Rice, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, REM, Rachael Yamagata, David Byrne, Yo Yo Ma, Billy Joel, Lyle Lovett, Bela Fleck, Moby, Taj Mahal, and Coldplay, among hundreds of others.MORE> -
Composers Datebook
8:00 pm - 8:06 pm Composers Datebook
6 minutes Composers Datebook is a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Each program notes significant or intriguing musical events involving composers of the past and present—with appropriate and accessible music related to each.MORE> -
Performance Today
8:06 pm - 10:00 pm Performance Today
114 minutes Performance Today is one of America's most popular classical music radio programs, with more than 1.2 million weekly listeners on 237 stations around the country. It features live concerts by famous artists in concert halls around the globe and from the American Public Media studios as well as interviews, news and features. Listeners to Performance Today, on any given day, may hear from performances in the great concert halls of New York, Prague, London, Berlin and Paris. MORE> -
Evening Classics
10:00 pm - 12:00 am Evening Classics
120 minutes Evenings Classics with Peter Van de Graaff is classical music culled from WFMT’s extensive library of more than 85,000 recordings and is provided through the Beethoven Network — a network originally designed to help public radio stations expand their local operation and improve the quality of late night programming. MORE>
- Tuesday
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Evening Classics
12:00 am - 4:59 am Evening Classics
299 minutes Evenings Classics with Peter Van de Graaff is classical music culled from WFMT’s extensive library of more than 85,000 recordings and is provided through the Beethoven Network — a network originally designed to help public radio stations expand their local operation and improve the quality of late night programming. MORE> -
Morning Edition
5:00 am - 10:00 am Morning Edition
300 minutes Hosted by Steve Inskeep, Rachel Martin and David Greene, with local news from Stan Sollars, Morning Edition takes listeners around the country, the world, and Indiana with multi-faceted stories and commentaries every weekday. For over three decades, NPR's Morning Edition has prepared listeners for the day ahead with up-to-the-minute news, background analysis and commentary. Regularly heard on Morning Edition are familiar voices, including commentators Cokie Roberts and Frank Deford, as well as the special series StoryCorps, the largest oral history project in American history. Morning Edition has garnered broadcasting's highest honors -- including the George Foster Peabody Award and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award.MORE> -
Composers Datebook
10:00 am - 10:06 am Composers Datebook
6 minutes Composers Datebook is a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Each program notes significant or intriguing musical events involving composers of the past and present—with appropriate and accessible music related to each.MORE> -
Morning Classics
10:06 am - 11:59 am Morning Classics
113 minutes Morning Classics with Peter Van de Graaff is classical music culled from WFMT’s extensive library of more than 85,000 recordings and is provided through the Beethoven Network. MORE> -
Here & Now
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Here & Now
120 minutes A live production of NPR and WBUR Boston, in collaboration with public radio stations across the country, Here & Now reflects the fluid world of news as it’s happening in the middle of the day, with timely, smart and in-depth news, interviews and conversation.MORE> -
Fresh Air
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Fresh Air
60 minutes Fresh Air with Terry Gross is one of public radio's most popular programs. Each week, nearly 4.5 million people listen to the show's intimate conversations broadcast on more than 450 NPR stations across the country, as well as in Europe on the World Radio Network. Though Fresh Air has been categorized as a "talk show," it hardly fits the mold. Its 1994 Peabody Award citation credits Fresh Air with "probing questions, revelatory interviews and unusual insights." And a variety of top publications count Gross among the country's leading interviewers. The show gives interviews as much time as needed, and complements them with comments from well-known critics and commentators.MORE> -
Yale Climate Connections
3:00 pm - 3:06 pm Yale Climate Connections
6 minutes Yale Climate Connections aims to help citizens and institutions understand how the changing climate is already affecting our lives. It seeks to help individuals, corporations, media, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, academics, artists, and more learn from each other about constructive “solutions” so many are undertaking to reduce climate-related risks and wasteful energy practices. We “connect the dots” between climate change and energy, extreme weather, public health, food and water, jobs and the economy, national security, the creative arts, and religious and moral values, among other themes. Edited by veteran journalist and journalism educator Bud Ward, Yale Climate Connections is an initiative of the Yale Center for Environmental Communication (YCEC), directed by Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University.MORE> -
The World
3:06 pm - 4:00 pm The World
54 minutes The World is your world revealed. It's about the events, trends, and personal tales that connect us around the globe. Marco Werman hosts an hour of surprising angles, unexpected insights, and engaging voices to illuminate what's going on in the world and why it matters to you. Reporters and editors for The World seek voices of people around the globe to reveal what's happening and why. Bringing this new global journalism to the United States, The World's unique editorial perspective brings energy and passion to each day's broadcast. The goal: to take us beyond borders and boundaries, and fire up our curiosity about a fascinating, messy, contentious and beautiful planet. It's about exploration and risk, war and peace, fun and folly, and how our daily drama plays out around the globe.MORE> -
All Things Considered
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm All Things Considered
180 minutes NPR's flagship evening newsmagazine delivers in-depth reporting and transforms the way listeners understand current events and view the world. Every weekday, hosts Audie Cornish, Mary Louise Kelly, and Ari Shapiro present two hours of breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special — sometimes quirky — features, along with local Indiana news by Stephanie Wiechmann. A one-hour edition of the program runs on Saturday and Sunday, hosted by Michel Martin. The show keeps listeners informed of breaking news and business updates all weekend long, by intelligently combining hard news and cultural commentary from across America and around the world.MORE> -
World Cafe
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm World Cafe
60 minutes Since 1991, World Cafe®, has emerged as the premier public radio showcase for contemporary music serving up an eclectic blend that includes blues, rock, world, folk, and alternative country. The show is hosted by long-time Philadelphia radio personality David Dye. A passionate music enthusiast, Dye takes you on a unique journey of musical discovery as he presents a mix of music from both new and legendary artists. Live performances and intimate interviews with Dye's musical guests highlight each day's show. The show's guest roster has included Joni Mitchell, David Bowie, Dave Matthews, Elvis Costello, Robert Plant, Dolly Parton, The Shins, Lucinda Williams, Paul McCartney, Ani Difranco, Damien Rice, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, REM, Rachael Yamagata, David Byrne, Yo Yo Ma, Billy Joel, Lyle Lovett, Bela Fleck, Moby, Taj Mahal, and Coldplay, among hundreds of others.MORE> -
Composers Datebook
8:00 pm - 8:06 pm Composers Datebook
6 minutes Composers Datebook is a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Each program notes significant or intriguing musical events involving composers of the past and present—with appropriate and accessible music related to each.MORE> -
Performance Today
8:06 pm - 10:00 pm Performance Today
114 minutes Performance Today is one of America's most popular classical music radio programs, with more than 1.2 million weekly listeners on 237 stations around the country. It features live concerts by famous artists in concert halls around the globe and from the American Public Media studios as well as interviews, news and features. Listeners to Performance Today, on any given day, may hear from performances in the great concert halls of New York, Prague, London, Berlin and Paris. MORE> -
Evening Classics
10:00 pm - 12:00 am Evening Classics
120 minutes Evenings Classics with Peter Van de Graaff is classical music culled from WFMT’s extensive library of more than 85,000 recordings and is provided through the Beethoven Network — a network originally designed to help public radio stations expand their local operation and improve the quality of late night programming. MORE>
- Wednesday
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Evening Classics
12:00 am - 4:59 am Evening Classics
299 minutes Evenings Classics with Peter Van de Graaff is classical music culled from WFMT’s extensive library of more than 85,000 recordings and is provided through the Beethoven Network — a network originally designed to help public radio stations expand their local operation and improve the quality of late night programming. MORE> -
Morning Edition
5:00 am - 10:00 am Morning Edition
300 minutes Hosted by Steve Inskeep, Rachel Martin and David Greene, with local news from Stan Sollars, Morning Edition takes listeners around the country, the world, and Indiana with multi-faceted stories and commentaries every weekday. For over three decades, NPR's Morning Edition has prepared listeners for the day ahead with up-to-the-minute news, background analysis and commentary. Regularly heard on Morning Edition are familiar voices, including commentators Cokie Roberts and Frank Deford, as well as the special series StoryCorps, the largest oral history project in American history. Morning Edition has garnered broadcasting's highest honors -- including the George Foster Peabody Award and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award.MORE> -
Composers Datebook
10:00 am - 10:06 am Composers Datebook
6 minutes Composers Datebook is a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Each program notes significant or intriguing musical events involving composers of the past and present—with appropriate and accessible music related to each.MORE> -
Morning Classics
10:06 am - 11:59 am Morning Classics
113 minutes Morning Classics with Peter Van de Graaff is classical music culled from WFMT’s extensive library of more than 85,000 recordings and is provided through the Beethoven Network. MORE> -
Here & Now
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Here & Now
120 minutes A live production of NPR and WBUR Boston, in collaboration with public radio stations across the country, Here & Now reflects the fluid world of news as it’s happening in the middle of the day, with timely, smart and in-depth news, interviews and conversation.MORE> -
Fresh Air
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Fresh Air
60 minutes Fresh Air with Terry Gross is one of public radio's most popular programs. Each week, nearly 4.5 million people listen to the show's intimate conversations broadcast on more than 450 NPR stations across the country, as well as in Europe on the World Radio Network. Though Fresh Air has been categorized as a "talk show," it hardly fits the mold. Its 1994 Peabody Award citation credits Fresh Air with "probing questions, revelatory interviews and unusual insights." And a variety of top publications count Gross among the country's leading interviewers. The show gives interviews as much time as needed, and complements them with comments from well-known critics and commentators.MORE> -
Yale Climate Connections
3:00 pm - 3:06 pm Yale Climate Connections
6 minutes Yale Climate Connections aims to help citizens and institutions understand how the changing climate is already affecting our lives. It seeks to help individuals, corporations, media, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, academics, artists, and more learn from each other about constructive “solutions” so many are undertaking to reduce climate-related risks and wasteful energy practices. We “connect the dots” between climate change and energy, extreme weather, public health, food and water, jobs and the economy, national security, the creative arts, and religious and moral values, among other themes. Edited by veteran journalist and journalism educator Bud Ward, Yale Climate Connections is an initiative of the Yale Center for Environmental Communication (YCEC), directed by Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University.MORE> -
The World
3:06 pm - 4:00 pm The World
54 minutes The World is your world revealed. It's about the events, trends, and personal tales that connect us around the globe. Marco Werman hosts an hour of surprising angles, unexpected insights, and engaging voices to illuminate what's going on in the world and why it matters to you. Reporters and editors for The World seek voices of people around the globe to reveal what's happening and why. Bringing this new global journalism to the United States, The World's unique editorial perspective brings energy and passion to each day's broadcast. The goal: to take us beyond borders and boundaries, and fire up our curiosity about a fascinating, messy, contentious and beautiful planet. It's about exploration and risk, war and peace, fun and folly, and how our daily drama plays out around the globe.MORE> -
All Things Considered
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm All Things Considered
180 minutes NPR's flagship evening newsmagazine delivers in-depth reporting and transforms the way listeners understand current events and view the world. Every weekday, hosts Audie Cornish, Mary Louise Kelly, and Ari Shapiro present two hours of breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special — sometimes quirky — features, along with local Indiana news by Stephanie Wiechmann. A one-hour edition of the program runs on Saturday and Sunday, hosted by Michel Martin. The show keeps listeners informed of breaking news and business updates all weekend long, by intelligently combining hard news and cultural commentary from across America and around the world.MORE> -
World Cafe
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm World Cafe
60 minutes Since 1991, World Cafe®, has emerged as the premier public radio showcase for contemporary music serving up an eclectic blend that includes blues, rock, world, folk, and alternative country. The show is hosted by long-time Philadelphia radio personality David Dye. A passionate music enthusiast, Dye takes you on a unique journey of musical discovery as he presents a mix of music from both new and legendary artists. Live performances and intimate interviews with Dye's musical guests highlight each day's show. The show's guest roster has included Joni Mitchell, David Bowie, Dave Matthews, Elvis Costello, Robert Plant, Dolly Parton, The Shins, Lucinda Williams, Paul McCartney, Ani Difranco, Damien Rice, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, REM, Rachael Yamagata, David Byrne, Yo Yo Ma, Billy Joel, Lyle Lovett, Bela Fleck, Moby, Taj Mahal, and Coldplay, among hundreds of others.MORE> -
Composers Datebook
8:00 pm - 8:06 pm Composers Datebook
6 minutes Composers Datebook is a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Each program notes significant or intriguing musical events involving composers of the past and present—with appropriate and accessible music related to each.MORE> -
Performance Today
8:06 pm - 10:00 pm Performance Today
114 minutes Performance Today is one of America's most popular classical music radio programs, with more than 1.2 million weekly listeners on 237 stations around the country. It features live concerts by famous artists in concert halls around the globe and from the American Public Media studios as well as interviews, news and features. Listeners to Performance Today, on any given day, may hear from performances in the great concert halls of New York, Prague, London, Berlin and Paris. MORE> -
Evening Classics
10:00 pm - 12:00 am Evening Classics
120 minutes Evenings Classics with Peter Van de Graaff is classical music culled from WFMT’s extensive library of more than 85,000 recordings and is provided through the Beethoven Network — a network originally designed to help public radio stations expand their local operation and improve the quality of late night programming. MORE>
- Thursday
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Evening Classics
12:00 am - 4:59 am Evening Classics
299 minutes Evenings Classics with Peter Van de Graaff is classical music culled from WFMT’s extensive library of more than 85,000 recordings and is provided through the Beethoven Network — a network originally designed to help public radio stations expand their local operation and improve the quality of late night programming. MORE> -
Morning Edition
5:00 am - 10:00 am Morning Edition
300 minutes Hosted by Steve Inskeep, Rachel Martin and David Greene, with local news from Stan Sollars, Morning Edition takes listeners around the country, the world, and Indiana with multi-faceted stories and commentaries every weekday. For over three decades, NPR's Morning Edition has prepared listeners for the day ahead with up-to-the-minute news, background analysis and commentary. Regularly heard on Morning Edition are familiar voices, including commentators Cokie Roberts and Frank Deford, as well as the special series StoryCorps, the largest oral history project in American history. Morning Edition has garnered broadcasting's highest honors -- including the George Foster Peabody Award and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award.MORE> -
Composers Datebook
10:00 am - 10:06 am Composers Datebook
6 minutes Composers Datebook is a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Each program notes significant or intriguing musical events involving composers of the past and present—with appropriate and accessible music related to each.MORE> -
Morning Classics
10:06 am - 11:59 am Morning Classics
113 minutes Morning Classics with Peter Van de Graaff is classical music culled from WFMT’s extensive library of more than 85,000 recordings and is provided through the Beethoven Network. MORE> -
Here & Now
12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Here & Now
120 minutes A live production of NPR and WBUR Boston, in collaboration with public radio stations across the country, Here & Now reflects the fluid world of news as it’s happening in the middle of the day, with timely, smart and in-depth news, interviews and conversation.MORE> -
Fresh Air
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Fresh Air
60 minutes Fresh Air with Terry Gross is one of public radio's most popular programs. Each week, nearly 4.5 million people listen to the show's intimate conversations broadcast on more than 450 NPR stations across the country, as well as in Europe on the World Radio Network. Though Fresh Air has been categorized as a "talk show," it hardly fits the mold. Its 1994 Peabody Award citation credits Fresh Air with "probing questions, revelatory interviews and unusual insights." And a variety of top publications count Gross among the country's leading interviewers. The show gives interviews as much time as needed, and complements them with comments from well-known critics and commentators.MORE> -
Yale Climate Connections
3:00 pm - 3:06 pm Yale Climate Connections
6 minutes Yale Climate Connections aims to help citizens and institutions understand how the changing climate is already affecting our lives. It seeks to help individuals, corporations, media, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, academics, artists, and more learn from each other about constructive “solutions” so many are undertaking to reduce climate-related risks and wasteful energy practices. We “connect the dots” between climate change and energy, extreme weather, public health, food and water, jobs and the economy, national security, the creative arts, and religious and moral values, among other themes. Edited by veteran journalist and journalism educator Bud Ward, Yale Climate Connections is an initiative of the Yale Center for Environmental Communication (YCEC), directed by Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University.MORE> -
The World
3:06 pm - 4:00 pm The World
54 minutes The World is your world revealed. It's about the events, trends, and personal tales that connect us around the globe. Marco Werman hosts an hour of surprising angles, unexpected insights, and engaging voices to illuminate what's going on in the world and why it matters to you. Reporters and editors for The World seek voices of people around the globe to reveal what's happening and why. Bringing this new global journalism to the United States, The World's unique editorial perspective brings energy and passion to each day's broadcast. The goal: to take us beyond borders and boundaries, and fire up our curiosity about a fascinating, messy, contentious and beautiful planet. It's about exploration and risk, war and peace, fun and folly, and how our daily drama plays out around the globe.MORE> -
All Things Considered
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm All Things Considered
180 minutes NPR's flagship evening newsmagazine delivers in-depth reporting and transforms the way listeners understand current events and view the world. Every weekday, hosts Audie Cornish, Mary Louise Kelly, and Ari Shapiro present two hours of breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special — sometimes quirky — features, along with local Indiana news by Stephanie Wiechmann. A one-hour edition of the program runs on Saturday and Sunday, hosted by Michel Martin. The show keeps listeners informed of breaking news and business updates all weekend long, by intelligently combining hard news and cultural commentary from across America and around the world.MORE> -
World Cafe
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm World Cafe
60 minutes Since 1991, World Cafe®, has emerged as the premier public radio showcase for contemporary music serving up an eclectic blend that includes blues, rock, world, folk, and alternative country. The show is hosted by long-time Philadelphia radio personality David Dye. A passionate music enthusiast, Dye takes you on a unique journey of musical discovery as he presents a mix of music from both new and legendary artists. Live performances and intimate interviews with Dye's musical guests highlight each day's show. The show's guest roster has included Joni Mitchell, David Bowie, Dave Matthews, Elvis Costello, Robert Plant, Dolly Parton, The Shins, Lucinda Williams, Paul McCartney, Ani Difranco, Damien Rice, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, REM, Rachael Yamagata, David Byrne, Yo Yo Ma, Billy Joel, Lyle Lovett, Bela Fleck, Moby, Taj Mahal, and Coldplay, among hundreds of others.MORE> -
Composers Datebook
8:00 pm - 8:06 pm Composers Datebook
6 minutes Composers Datebook is a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Each program notes significant or intriguing musical events involving composers of the past and present—with appropriate and accessible music related to each.MORE> -
Performance Today
8:06 pm - 10:00 pm Performance Today
114 minutes Performance Today is one of America's most popular classical music radio programs, with more than 1.2 million weekly listeners on 237 stations around the country. It features live concerts by famous artists in concert halls around the globe and from the American Public Media studios as well as interviews, news and features. Listeners to Performance Today, on any given day, may hear from performances in the great concert halls of New York, Prague, London, Berlin and Paris. MORE> -
Evening Classics
10:00 pm - 12:00 am Evening Classics
120 minutes Evenings Classics with Peter Van de Graaff is classical music culled from WFMT’s extensive library of more than 85,000 recordings and is provided through the Beethoven Network — a network originally designed to help public radio stations expand their local operation and improve the quality of late night programming. MORE>
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Evening Classics
12:00 am - 4:59 am Evening Classics
299 minutes Evenings Classics with Peter Van de Graaff is classical music culled from WFMT’s extensive library of more than 85,000 recordings and is provided through the Beethoven Network — a network originally designed to help public radio stations expand their local operation and improve the quality of late night programming. MORE> -
Morning Edition
5:00 am - 10:00 am Morning Edition
300 minutes Hosted by Steve Inskeep, Rachel Martin and David Greene, with local news from Stan Sollars, Morning Edition takes listeners around the country, the world, and Indiana with multi-faceted stories and commentaries every weekday. For over three decades, NPR's Morning Edition has prepared listeners for the day ahead with up-to-the-minute news, background analysis and commentary. Regularly heard on Morning Edition are familiar voices, including commentators Cokie Roberts and Frank Deford, as well as the special series StoryCorps, the largest oral history project in American history. Morning Edition has garnered broadcasting's highest honors -- including the George Foster Peabody Award and the Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Award.MORE> -
Composers Datebook
10:00 am - 10:06 am Composers Datebook
6 minutes Composers Datebook is a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Each program notes significant or intriguing musical events involving composers of the past and present—with appropriate and accessible music related to each.MORE> -
Morning Classics
10:06 am - 11:59 am Morning Classics
113 minutes Morning Classics with Peter Van de Graaff is classical music culled from WFMT’s extensive library of more than 85,000 recordings and is provided through the Beethoven Network. MORE> -
Owsley Moment
12:00 pm - 12:08 pm Owsley Moment
8 minutes Created by Ball State School of Art professor Dr. Lara Kuykendall, The Owsley Moment is a brief, informative program that describes one work on display at the David Owsley Museum of Art every week. Each Moment takes the listener on a small adventure, often telling the history of the piece, recounting the life of the artist, or vividly detailing the characteristics of the work. The Owsley Moments are written by students of Dr. Kuykendall's Art Museum Theory & Practice and Art in the United States classes at Ball State. They are produced in collaboration with the David Owsley Museum of Art and Indiana Public Radio and are voiced by Ball State students. MORE> -
Pop of Culture
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Here & Now
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm Here & Now
60 minutes A live production of NPR and WBUR Boston, in collaboration with public radio stations across the country, Here & Now reflects the fluid world of news as it’s happening in the middle of the day, with timely, smart and in-depth news, interviews and conversation.MORE> -
Science Friday
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Science Friday
60 minutes Covering the outer reaches of space to the tiniest microbes in our bodies, "Science Friday" is the trusted source for news about science, technology, and other cool stuff. Each week, host Ira Flatow mixes it up with people in the know and those who want to be. It's brain fun, for curious people. For over 22 years, "Science Friday" has brought the top stories in science to radio listeners and given them a chance to join in the discussion by asking questions and making comments during the live broadcast. MORE> -
Yale Climate Connections
3:00 pm - 3:06 pm Yale Climate Connections
6 minutes Yale Climate Connections aims to help citizens and institutions understand how the changing climate is already affecting our lives. It seeks to help individuals, corporations, media, non-governmental organizations, government agencies, academics, artists, and more learn from each other about constructive “solutions” so many are undertaking to reduce climate-related risks and wasteful energy practices. We “connect the dots” between climate change and energy, extreme weather, public health, food and water, jobs and the economy, national security, the creative arts, and religious and moral values, among other themes. Edited by veteran journalist and journalism educator Bud Ward, Yale Climate Connections is an initiative of the Yale Center for Environmental Communication (YCEC), directed by Dr. Anthony Leiserowitz of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University.MORE> -
Science Friday
3:06 pm - 4:00 pm Science Friday
54 minutes Covering the outer reaches of space to the tiniest microbes in our bodies, "Science Friday" is the trusted source for news about science, technology, and other cool stuff. Each week, host Ira Flatow mixes it up with people in the know and those who want to be. It's brain fun, for curious people. For over 22 years, "Science Friday" has brought the top stories in science to radio listeners and given them a chance to join in the discussion by asking questions and making comments during the live broadcast. MORE> -
All Things Considered
4:00 pm - 7:00 pm All Things Considered
180 minutes NPR's flagship evening newsmagazine delivers in-depth reporting and transforms the way listeners understand current events and view the world. Every weekday, hosts Audie Cornish, Mary Louise Kelly, and Ari Shapiro present two hours of breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special — sometimes quirky — features, along with local Indiana news by Stephanie Wiechmann. A one-hour edition of the program runs on Saturday and Sunday, hosted by Michel Martin. The show keeps listeners informed of breaking news and business updates all weekend long, by intelligently combining hard news and cultural commentary from across America and around the world.MORE> -
World Cafe
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm World Cafe
60 minutes Since 1991, World Cafe®, has emerged as the premier public radio showcase for contemporary music serving up an eclectic blend that includes blues, rock, world, folk, and alternative country. The show is hosted by long-time Philadelphia radio personality David Dye. A passionate music enthusiast, Dye takes you on a unique journey of musical discovery as he presents a mix of music from both new and legendary artists. Live performances and intimate interviews with Dye's musical guests highlight each day's show. The show's guest roster has included Joni Mitchell, David Bowie, Dave Matthews, Elvis Costello, Robert Plant, Dolly Parton, The Shins, Lucinda Williams, Paul McCartney, Ani Difranco, Damien Rice, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, REM, Rachael Yamagata, David Byrne, Yo Yo Ma, Billy Joel, Lyle Lovett, Bela Fleck, Moby, Taj Mahal, and Coldplay, among hundreds of others.MORE> -
Composers Datebook
8:00 pm - 8:06 pm Composers Datebook
6 minutes Composers Datebook is a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Each program notes significant or intriguing musical events involving composers of the past and present—with appropriate and accessible music related to each.MORE> -
Performance Today
8:06 pm - 10:00 pm Performance Today
114 minutes Performance Today is one of America's most popular classical music radio programs, with more than 1.2 million weekly listeners on 237 stations around the country. It features live concerts by famous artists in concert halls around the globe and from the American Public Media studios as well as interviews, news and features. Listeners to Performance Today, on any given day, may hear from performances in the great concert halls of New York, Prague, London, Berlin and Paris. MORE> -
Evening Classics
10:00 pm - 12:00 am Evening Classics
120 minutes Evenings Classics with Peter Van de Graaff is classical music culled from WFMT’s extensive library of more than 85,000 recordings and is provided through the Beethoven Network — a network originally designed to help public radio stations expand their local operation and improve the quality of late night programming. MORE>
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Evening Classics
12:00 am - 4:59 am Evening Classics
299 minutes Evenings Classics with Peter Van de Graaff is classical music culled from WFMT’s extensive library of more than 85,000 recordings and is provided through the Beethoven Network — a network originally designed to help public radio stations expand their local operation and improve the quality of late night programming. MORE> -
Composers Datebook
5:00 am - 5:06 am Composers Datebook
6 minutes Composers Datebook is a daily two-minute program designed to inform, engage and entertain listeners with timely information about composers of the past and present. Each program notes significant or intriguing musical events involving composers of the past and present—with appropriate and accessible music related to each.MORE> -
Morning Classics
5:06 am - 6:59 am Morning Classics
113 minutes Morning Classics with Peter Van de Graaff is classical music culled from WFMT’s extensive library of more than 85,000 recordings and is provided through the Beethoven Network. MORE> -
On the Media
7:00 am - 8:00 am On the Media
60 minutes On the Media explores how the media 'sausage' is made, casts an incisive eye on fluctuations in the marketplace of ideas, and examines threats to the freedom of information and expression in America and abroad. For one hour a week, the show tries to lift the veil from the process of "making media," especially news media, because it's through that lens that we literally see the world and the world sees us.MORE> -
Weekend Edition Saturday
8:00 am - 10:00 am Weekend Edition Saturday
120 minutes Whether revealing events in small-town America or overseas, or profiling notable personalities, Weekend Edition from NPR News appreciates the extraordinary details that make up every story. This two-hour weekend morning newsmagazine covers hard news, a wide variety of newsmakers, and cultural stories with care, accuracy, and a wink of humor. Weekend Edition Saturday wraps up the week's news and offers a mix of analysis and features on a wide range of topics, including arts, sports, entertainment, and human interest stories. The two-hour program is hosted by NPR's Peabody Award-winning Scott Simon. MORE> -
Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
10:00 am - 11:00 am Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
60 minutes For a wacky and whip-smart approach to the week's news and newsmakers, listen no further than Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!, the oddly informative news quiz from NPR. During each fast-paced, irreverent show, host Peter Sagal leads what might be characterized as the news Olympics. Callers, panelists, and guests compete by answering questions about the week's events, identifying impersonations, filling in the blanks at lightning speed, sniffing out fake news items, and deciphering limericks. Listeners vie for a chance to win the most coveted prize in radio: having Scorekeeper Emeritus Carl Kasell record the outgoing message on their home answering machine. MORE> -
The Facing Project
11:00 am - 12:00 pm The Facing Project
60 minutes This is the show that connects people through stories to strengthen their communities. Hosted by the creators of the non-profit organization, The Facing Project, J.R. Jamison and Kelsey Timmerman introduce each month’s theme and the performances of Facing Project stories told from different points-of-view. Each episode then ends with commentary on the theme between the hosts, leaving listeners with the courage to share their own stories and the empathy to listen to others.MORE> -
Owsley Moment
12:00 pm - 12:08 pm Owsley Moment
8 minutes Created by Ball State School of Art professor Dr. Lara Kuykendall, The Owsley Moment is a brief, informative program that describes one work on display at the David Owsley Museum of Art every week. Each Moment takes the listener on a small adventure, often telling the history of the piece, recounting the life of the artist, or vividly detailing the characteristics of the work. The Owsley Moments are written by students of Dr. Kuykendall's Art Museum Theory & Practice and Art in the United States classes at Ball State. They are produced in collaboration with the David Owsley Museum of Art and Indiana Public Radio and are voiced by Ball State students. MORE> -
Pop of Culture
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The Splendid Table
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm The Splendid Table
60 minutes The Splendid Table has been at the forefront of food issues and policies since its inception. Long before eating local became a catchphrase and farmers' markets became ubiquitous, the show had to make sure to define such terms as organic and sustainable for listeners. Today those terms have become part of the everyday lexicon, and people's hunger for wholesome food and the rituals surrounding it has only increased.MORE> -
Radiolab
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm Radiolab
60 minutes Each hour Radiolab takes a big idea, so big that it lives everywhere, hiding in a thousand places under different names, and chases that idea, going wherever whim takes. Along the way, hosts Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich interview, argue, imagine and discover the hidden connections that make this idea so surprisingly powerful. And the sounds you hear are as new and startling as the ideas explored. It's Technicolor radio. MORE> -
Snap Judgment
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm Snap Judgment
60 minutes The Snap Judgment radio show and podcast mixes real stories with killer beats to produce cinematic, dramatic radio. Snap’s musical brand of storytelling dares listeners to see the world through the eyes of another. This is storytelling… with a BEAT!! Snap first aired on public radio stations nationwide in July 2010. Today, Snap Judgment airs on over 450 public radio stations and is brought to the airwaves by PRX.MORE> -
This American Life
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm This American Life
60 minutes This American Life is a weekly public radio show broadcast on more than 500 stations to about 2.2 million listeners. It is produced in collaboration with Chicago Public Media, delivered to stations by The Public Radio Exchange, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards. It is also often the most popular podcast in the country, with another 2.4 million people downloading each episode. There's a theme to each episode of This American Life, and a variety of stories on that theme. Most of the stories are journalism, with an occasional comedy routine or essay. There's lots more to the show, but it's sort of hard to describe. MORE> -
All Things Considered
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm All Things Considered
60 minutes NPR's flagship evening newsmagazine delivers in-depth reporting and transforms the way listeners understand current events and view the world. Every weekday, hosts Audie Cornish, Mary Louise Kelly, and Ari Shapiro present two hours of breaking news mixed with compelling analysis, insightful commentaries, interviews, and special — sometimes quirky — features, along with local Indiana news by Stephanie Wiechmann. A one-hour edition of the program runs on Saturday and Sunday, hosted by Michel Martin. The show keeps listeners informed of breaking news and business updates all weekend long, by intelligently combining hard news and cultural commentary from across America and around the world.MORE> -
American Routes
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm American Routes
60 minutes Programming Note: Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments is at 9:00 every Saturday during American Routes. American Routes is a weekly two-hour public radio program produced in New Orleans, presenting a broad range of American music - blues and jazz, gospel and soul, old-time country and rockabilly, Cajun and zydeco, Tejano and Latin, roots rock and pop, avant-garde and classical. American Routes explores the shared musical and cultural threads in these American styles and genres of music - and how they are distinguished.MORE> -
Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments
7:00 pm - 7:02 pm Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments
2 minutes Author and Baylor University professor Robert Darden tells stories — and plays recordings — from the Baylor University Libraries' Black Gospel Music Restoration Project in an on-going weekly series of two-minute segments. Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments explores the distinctly African-American sound of the "Golden Age of Gospel" (1945-1975). The series celebrates this fertile musical period in American history, presenting cultural snapshots that reveal the depth of a people, their community and the influence they have had on the rest of American music. MORE> -
American Routes
7:02 pm - 8:00 pm American Routes
58 minutes Programming Note: Shout! Black Gospel Music Moments is at 9:00 every Saturday during American Routes. American Routes is a weekly two-hour public radio program produced in New Orleans, presenting a broad range of American music - blues and jazz, gospel and soul, old-time country and rockabilly, Cajun and zydeco, Tejano and Latin, roots rock and pop, avant-garde and classical. American Routes explores the shared musical and cultural threads in these American styles and genres of music - and how they are distinguished.MORE> -
Saturday Evening Jazz
8:00 pm - 10:00 pm Saturday Evening Jazz
120 minutes First-class music, informed programming, and a personable, knowledgeable host, Saturday Evening Jazz is your connection to mainstream Jazz selected and hosted by broadcasting veteran and musician Jana Lee Ross. MORE> -
Cruisin' the Decades
10:00 pm - 11:00 pm Cruisin' the Decades
60 minutes Cruisin’ The Decades is a one-of-a-kind radio program focusing on over 100 years of recorded music, playing one song per decade from 1920 to today. This is the show that shines a spotlight on all genres of music while focusing on the history, technology of recording and evolution of popular music from yesterday to today. Hosted and curated by Brad Savage, it is produced at The Summit WAPS-FM in Akron, OH. Savage uses his deep knowledge of music, along with his vast experience and massive music library, to put together a show that is as informative and engaging as it is entertaining. It’s a show for true music lovers, by a true music lover! MORE> -
Evening Classics
11:00 pm - 12:00 am Evening Classics
60 minutes Evenings Classics with Peter Van de Graaff is classical music culled from WFMT’s extensive library of more than 85,000 recordings and is provided through the Beethoven Network — a network originally designed to help public radio stations expand their local operation and improve the quality of late night programming. MORE>