Chicago Public Radio (CPR) is a noncommercial, public radio station broadcasting from Chicago, Illinois. Financed primarily by listener contributions, Chicago Public Radio is affiliated with both National Public Radio and Public Radio International. Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ... Nickname: Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois County Cook & DuPage Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government  - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area  - City  234. ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Largest metro area Chicago Area  Ranked 25th  - Total 57,918 sq mi (149,998 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 390 miles (629 km)  - % water 4. ... Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... FreQuency is a music video game developed by Harmonix and published by SCEI. It was released in November 2001. ... MegaHertz (MHz) is the name given to one million (106) Hertz, a measure of frequency. ... HD Radio is an in-band on-channel (IBOC) digital radio system created by iBiquity for broadcasting via existing FM and AM radio stations. ... A radio format or programming format describes the overall content broadcast on a radio station. ... Public broadcasting (also known as public service broadcasting or PSB) is the dominant form of broadcasting around the world, where radio, television, and potentially other electronic media outlets receive funding from the public. ... A Web site (or colloquially, Website) is a collection of Web pages, images, videos and other digital assets that is hosted on a Web server, usually accessible via the Internet or a LAN. A Web page is a document, typically written in HTML, that is almost always accessible via HTTP... Public broadcasting (also known as public service broadcasting or PSB) is the dominant form of broadcasting around the world, where radio, television, and potentially other electronic media outlets receive funding from the public. ... Nickname: Motto: Urbs In Horto (Latin: City in a Garden), I Will Location in the Chicago metro area and Illinois Coordinates: Country United States State Illinois County Cook & DuPage Incorporated March 4, 1837 Government  - Mayor Richard M. Daley (D) Area  - City  234. ... Official language(s) English[1] Capital Springfield Largest city Chicago Largest metro area Chicago Area  Ranked 25th  - Total 57,918 sq mi (149,998 km²)  - Width 210 miles (340 km)  - Length 390 miles (629 km)  - % water 4. ... “NPR” redirects here. ... PRI logo Public Radio International, or PRI, is a not-for-profit corporation based in the United States founded in 1983 to develop non-commercial audio programming for public radio and other audio venues. ...

Stations and call signs

Chicago Public Radio is broadcast on four FM radio stations, with call signs WBEZ (91.5 FM) in Chicago, WBEQ in Morris, Illinois (90.7 FM), WBEW (89.5 FM) in Chesterton, Indiana, and W217BM (91.3 FM) in Elgin, Illinois. Listeners can also receive the Chicago Public Radio broadcast online with streaming audio, MP3 download or by podcast. As of 2006, the station draws an estimated 600,000 listeners each week. FM radio is a broadcast technology invented by Edwin Howard Armstrong that uses frequency modulation to provide high-fidelity sound over broadcast radio. ... A radio station is an audio (sound) broadcasting service, traditionally broadcast through the air as radio waves (a form of electromagnetic radiation) from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device. ... Call sign can refer to different types of call signs: Airline call sign Aviator call sign Cosmonaut call sign Radio and television call signs Tactical call sign, also known as a tactical designator See also: International Callsign Allocations, Maritime Mobile Service Identity This is a disambiguation page — a navigational... Morris is a city located in Grundy County, Illinois. ... Chesterton is a town in Porter County, Indiana, United States. ... Official language(s) English Capital Indianapolis Largest city Indianapolis Area  Ranked 38th  - Total 36,418 sq mi (94,321 km²)  - Width 140 miles (225 km)  - Length 270 miles (435 km)  - % water 1. ... Incorporated City in 1854. ... Streaming media is just-in-time delivery of multimedia information. ... MPEG-1 Audio Layer 3, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a popular digital audio encoding format. ... Podcasting is the method of distributing multimedia files, such as audio or video programs, over the Internet using syndication feeds, for playback on mobile devices and personal computers. ...

CPR also managed Loyola University of Chicago's WLUW 88.7 FM, heard on the North Side of Chicago and adjacent suburbs for a few years in the early 21st century. Although WLUW receives equipment and legal assistance from CPR, it is now otherwise financially independent. This article or section contains information that has not been verified and thus might not be reliable. ... WLUW is an independent community radio station serving Chicago, Illinois and its northern suburbs. ... WLUW is an independent community radio station serving Chicago, Illinois and its northern suburbs. ...

History

Chicago Public Radio began as an extension of the Chicago Board of Education and began broadcasting as WBEZ in 1943. For most of its early years, the station only broadcast instructional programs, operating during the school year on weekdays while Chicago Public Schools were in session. In 1972, WBEZ joined National Public Radio and began general programming outside of school hours, not completely dropping instructional programs until the early 1980s. Initially, most programming outside of the instructional programs and NPR programs was jazz music. The Board of Education sold the station to the current license holders, the not-for-profit WBEZ Alliance, Inc., in 1990. The general manager since 1995 is Torey Malatia. Year 1943 (MCMXLIII) was a common year starting on Friday (the link will display full 1943 calendar) of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... “NPR” redirects here. ... MCMXC redirects here; for the Enigma album, see MCMXC a. ... 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Programming

Programming on Chicago Public Radio includes the usual instantiations of world music, jazz, quiz shows, and international and local news on a regular basis. It offers such staples as All Things Considered, Car Talk, Marketplace, Morning Edition, A Prairie Home Companion, and Whad'ya know. Currently, Chicago Public Radio is best known nationally as the producers of This American Life through Public Radio International, and Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! through NPR. Generally, news and talk programming is heard during the day, with jazz and other music programming at night, excepting the traditional Sunday afternoon time slot of jazz disc jockey Dick Buckley, who has been with the station for around 30 years. World music is, most generally, all the music in the world. ... All Things Considered (ATC), is a news radio program in the United States, broadcast on the National Public Radio network. ... Car Talk is a radio talk show broadcast weekly on National Public Radio stations throughout the United States and elsewhere. ... Marketplace is a radio program that focuses on business, the economy, and events that influence them. ... Morning Edition is an American radio news program produced and distributed by National Public Radio (NPR). ... This article is about the radio show. ... WhadYa Know? is a American comedy, interview and quiz show that is distributed weekly by Public Radio International. ... This American Life (TAL) is a weekly hour-long radio program produced by Chicago Public Radio. ... PRI logo Public Radio International, or PRI, is a not-for-profit corporation based in the United States founded in 1983 to develop non-commercial audio programming for public radio and other audio venues. ... Wait Wait. ... Dick Buckley is the host of the jazz program, Jazz with Dick Buckley, on Chicago Public Radio. ...

Chicago Public Radio was at one time the flagship station of Steve Cushing's nationally distributed Saturday night blues music program Blues Before Sunrise, which started in 1979 and has been independently produced and distributed by Cushing since 1995; the program now airs locally on station WDCB. The station is also the flagship station of The Annoying Music Show!, a 3-5 minute program (which airs during a station break) that showcases generally annoying songs. The program is produced by Nayder Communications, headed by former WBEZ program director Jim Nayder. (Nayder Communications also produces the somewhat more serious Magnificent Obsession, a program of interviews with persons who have overcome various addictions, for which CPR is the flagship station.) WDCB is a public radio station based on the campus of College of DuPage, in Glen Ellyn, IL. The main focus is jazz. ...

Its morning magazine program 848 was named after the postal address of the station, 848 East Grand Avenue, though the name is sometimes misinterpreted as referring to its air time (originally 9:30am, later 9:00am).

The other local program heard Monday-through-Friday is Worldview, an international news and analysis program that began in 1985 as Middday with Sondra Gair. After Gair's death in 1995, her producer Jerome McDonnell took over the program and has hosted since. It was heard nationally on Sirius Satellite Radio's now-defunct PRI channel from Sirius' inception until 2006. Starting March 2007, Worldview is aired on the satellite XMPR channel nightly. Worldview is Chicago Public Radios daily international-affairs radio show, hosted by Jerome McDonnell. ... Sirius Satellite Radio NASDAQ: SIRI is one of two satellite radio (SDARS) services operating in the United States and Canada, along with XM Satellite Radio. ... Worldview is Chicago Public Radios daily international-affairs radio show, hosted by Jerome McDonnell. ... XM Public Radio (abbreviated XMPR) is XM Satellite Radios 24/7 satellite radio channel dedicated to public radio programming. ...

The local arts program, Hello, Beautiful!, airs Sunday morning, and Chicago Public Radio's rock music talk show Sound Opinions, which moved from WXRT in 2005, is distributed nationally by American Public Media. For other uses, see Rock music (disambiguation). ... A talk show (U.S.) or chat show (Brit. ... Sound Opinions is a radio talk show focusing on Rock Music. ... WXRT, also known as WXRT-FM, WXRT 93. ... American Public Media logo American Public Media is the brand under which Minnesota Public Radio distributes public radio programming outside of the state of Minnesota. ...

In addition, Chicago Public Radio sponsors and administers the Third Coast International Audio Festival, a showcase for independent radio producers. It produces the weekly program Re:sound. Also, CPR is a founding member of the Public Radio Exchange, a programming cooperative for public radio stations and independent producers. The Third Coast International Audio Festival (TCIAF) is a celebration of the best feature and documentary audio work heard worldwide on the radio and the Internet. ... Check if the article is a copyright violation or meets deletion criteria. ...

Programming Changes

As of Jan. 8, 2007, overnight music programming has been dropped. The new schedule has been posted on the website at [1]. In its place on weeknights are repeats of the daytime local programming and Fresh Air, the BBC World Service program Outlook and newscasts from the World Radio Network. Malatia has stated on the CPR message boards that more local programming will be added in time, when proper funding is received. For the Scottish student radio station, see Fresh Air (Edinburgh). ... The BBC World Service is one of the most widely recognised international broadcasters of radio programming, transmitting in 33 languages to many parts of the world. ... The World Radio Network is a consortium of national public broadcasters from around the world, who share programming on a series of international satellite radio networks. ...

The music programs remaining on the schedule are the world music program Radio M (formerly "Passport") and PRI's Afropop Worldwide on Friday nights, PRI's American Routes on Saturday afternoons (new to the station) and Buckley on Sunday afternoons, although in an hour format instead of the three-hour program he had for many years. All other music hosts are being reassigned to other positions at the station, according to a March article in the Chicago Reader. Afropop was a radio program launched by National Public Radio as a weekly series in 1988 when interest in international pop music was at an all-time high. ... American Routes is a public radio program hosted by Nick Spitzer that explores connections between the many musical styles that have blossomed in the United States. ...

The replacement of music programming, which management said is caused by the prevalence and popularity of other music delivery systems, has caused controversy amongst many music buffs. Protest web sites were established; at this time www.boycottbez.com is still up, although no new material has been added since January.

Along with the programming changes on WBEZ, in late May 2007 WBEW is scheduled to take on a new public affairs format built around contributions from listeners similar to the cable television channel Current TV, to be known as Vocalo.org. Current TV is an independent media company led by former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, and businessman Joel Hyatt. ...

A Time Out Chicago article from August 2006 describes the format as hosts in two-hour shifts programming what fits their fancy, be it interviews, pre-produced pieces, music or commentary. The general on-air tone of the hosts is to be more informal and personable than the usual public radio host, which is often perceived to be detached and stodgy. In line from this, Vocalo.org will not be marketed as a public radio station, will not broadcast any nationally-produced public radio programs and will not use on-air pledge drives as a funding source. Listener-supplied material will be culled from material uploaded to the station web site and recorded in neighborhood satellite studios and mobile recording stations at libraries, stores and events, similar to the "StoryBooths" of David Isay's StoryCorps project. Material will be posted on the web site for public listening and comment before broadcast.

A web site has already been established at www.secretradioproject.com to gather people interested in participating in the new programming. The actual Vocalo.org web site allows users to submit their own content for broadcast.

Although the separation of WBEW from WBEZ had been in the works for some time, it was widely considered that the station would be adopting some sort of music format, either an extension of the present jazz format or a AAA format similar to those of KCRW in Los Angeles, WXPN in Philadelphia and Minnesota Public Radio's KCMP, or "The Current." KCRW (89. ... WXPN (88. ... Minnesota Public Radio logo Minnesota Public Radio (MPR) is a regional public radio network based in the U.S. state of Minnesota that has been broadcasting since 1967. ... 89. ...

External links

• Chicago Public Radio Official website
• Program Schedule Official website
• This American Life Official website
• National Public Radio Official website
• Public Radio International Official website
• Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! Official website
• Third Coast International Audio Festival
• "The Business: All Talk,", Chicago Reader, April 14, 2006, Section 2, pg. 2