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A thriving media organization at the forefront of digital innovation, NPR creates and distributes award-winning news, information, and music programming to a network of 959 independent stations. Through them, NPR programming reaches 26.4 million listeners every week.
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April is Public Radio Music Month
This April, join us as we celebrate Public Radio Music Month. We're following a month in the life of public radio stations across the country with studio sessions, local concerts broadcasts, exclusive interviews, and archived broadcasts from some of public radio's most memorable moments. All month long, be sure to tune to your local public radio music station, visit the blog and follow us on Twitter @PubRadioMusic.
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Top Ten Facts About NPR
- From Kabul to Beijing, correspondents are based in 17 foreign bureaus. Domestically, there are 17.
- 959 public stations air NPR programming: 266 NPR Members operating 823 stations and 140 non-member public stations.
- NPR is 40: April 1971, NPR debuted with live coverage of Senate Vietnam War hearings. May 3, 1971, All Things Considered aired on 90 stations.
- Every week, 26.4 million people tune in to NPR programs and NPR Newscasts.
- NPR is the #1 provider of public radio content and programming but not all public radio programs are produced or distributed by NPR.
- NPR and stations are everywhere: download apps and podcasts for iPhone, Android and iPad; follow NPR on Twitter; be a Facebook fan; visit NPR.org.
- NPR is not PBS or public TV. Some NPR stations operate both a PBS TV station and an NPR radio station.
- About 93 percent of the U.S. population can hear at least one station that carries NPR programming.
- The federal contribution to public media amounts to $1.37 per American per year. For radio alone, this amounts to only 31 cents.
- NPR programming reaches more people than the total circulation of the top national newspapers.