WNYC

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WNYC 93.9 FM and AM 820 are America's most listened-to public radio stations, reaching over one million listeners each week. WNYC FM 93.9 broadcasts a broad range of daily news, talk, cultural and classical music programming, while WNYC AM 820 maintains a stronger focus on breaking news and international/ global news reporting. WNYC, New York Public Radio maintains a busy centralized newsroom and its award-winning reporters contribute regularly to local news broadcasts and to the nationally aired news programs Morning Edition, All Things Considered and Marketplace. WNYC produces signature daily interview programs, hosted by Brian Lehrer, Leonard Lopate and John Schaefer as well as the nationally broadcast Radiolab, On the Media, Studio 360, Selected Shorts and Freakonomics Radio. 

Series

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10 Pieces

A look at the convention, New York and the GOP from WNYC's award-winning news staff

  • From: WNYC
  • Updated: Aug 26, 2004
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10 Pieces

A series of reports from a high school in Brooklyn where educators and counselors work with students at risk of dropping out. We hear directly from students, teachers and others on the front line of dropout prevention.

  • From: WNYC
  • Updated: Mar 11, 2014
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30 Pieces

The Fishko Files, produced by WNYC's Sara Fishko, are personal, essay-like radio pieces on music, art, culture and media.

  • From: WNYC
  • Updated: Sep 20, 2012

Latest Pieces

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A fundraising version of Alec's fascinating interview with Lorne Michaels, cut to offer you three pledge breaks. Total running time *excluding brea...

Bought by KTXK, WRIR, KERA, KUT, KRCC-FM and more


  • Added: Oct 05, 2012
  • Length: 41:25
  • Purchases: 23
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Alec visits Lorne Michaels in his office at Rockefeller Center – the same office he’s had since 1975, when he created Saturday Night Live. Michael...

Bought by KMUZ, WLIW, KUNV, KRCC-FM, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 44
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Alec talks with late-night legend David Letterman. Letterman describes his early days as a local TV host in Indiana, followed by time working the c...

Bought by Troy Public Radio, KPIK-LP, WLIW, KUNV, KRCC-FM and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 46
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Alec goes backstage with comic actor Chris Rock after a matinee of The Motherf**ker With The Hat to hear what it was like for Rock to be in his fir...

Bought by CI Dolphin Radio, WLIW, KUNV, KRCC-FM, KSRQ and more


  • Added: Sep 28, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 45
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Three :30 generic Here's The Thing promos, available free to stations carrying the 5-episode first series. (Episode-specific promos are available...

Bought by KUNV, KERA, KOSU, KUHF, Louisville Public Media and more


  • Added: Sep 25, 2012
  • Length: 01:28
  • Purchases: 21
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A one-hour program of music and interviews, examining the impact of Glenn Gould's Bach recordings, and those of other pianists since Gould's death.

Bought by KUT, WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., KUT-HD, KALW and more


  • Added: Sep 20, 2012
  • Length: 59:01
  • Purchases: 9
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Alec sits down with Billy Joel at a piano as Joel details the decisions – musical and personal – that helped shape his music and his career.

Bought by KUHF, WGBH Radio Boston, WLIW, KUNV, KRCC-FM and more


  • Added: Sep 07, 2012
  • Length: 59:00
  • Purchases: 47
Caption: Claressa Shields at the Olympic Trials. , Credit: Sue Jaye Johnson
This year women will enter the Olympic boxing ring for the first time. Hosted by actor Rosie Perez and producer Marianne McCune, "Go for It" expl...

Bought by WCAI / WNAN Cape & Islands, Mass., WBEZ, Delta College Public Radio, WDET Detroit Public Radio, WAMU and more


  • Added: Jun 25, 2012
  • Length: 57:00
  • Purchases: 38
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An hour-long celebration of the American holiday songbook, with rarely heard recordings from Peggy Lee, Rosemary Clooney, Louis Prima, and Donny Ha...

Bought by WCNY, WYPR, KLCC, Interlochen Public Radio, WYPR and more


  • Added: Dec 14, 2011
  • Length: 58:27
  • Purchases: 73
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To mark the 10th Anniversary of 9/11, Radio Rookies, WNYC’s Peabody Award-winning youth journalism program, presents “Our 9/11: Growing Up in The A...

Bought by RADIOLEX, KCMJ Community Radio, 90.5 WSNC, WRPI, WXDU and more


  • Added: Sep 06, 2011
  • Length: 58:59
  • Purchases: 31