BS: NPR 'All Things Considered' in NYC area?

Subject: BS: NPR 'All Things Considered' in NYC area?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 01 Jun 06 - 11:42 AM

The wife and I are in north-central New Jersey for a brief visit, and can't believe that we're unable to find the National Public Radio daily newscast "All Things Considered" anywhere on the car radio. Can't find the arts-and-entertainment program "Fresh Air" either, except when we can pick up a static-y signal from WHYY from Philadephia.

There are several NPR-affiliated stations down at the low end of the FM spectrum, but none of them carry the long-form news program, only a five-minute NPR news "digest" at the top of the hour.

Is it possible that this wonderful, award-wining radio programming is unavailable in such a huge media market? We had no trouble finding stations carrying ATC anywhere on the road from New Orleans to New Jersey ~ state-wide NPR systems in Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee, and Virginia all provide the complete NPR news and commentary services.

I'm glad that so many of the NY area stations provide "less chatter, more platter," and I'm particularly fond of the world's greatest jazz station, WBGO in Newark, but you'd think at least one public radio station hereabouts would preempt a couple hours of music to air the nation's best radio news programming.

Have I missed something? Maybe there's a station with too weak a signal for my car rsdio's "seek" function to recognize...

Subject: RE: BS: NPR 'All Things Considered' in NYC area?
From: jeffp
Date: 01 Jun 06 - 11:46 AM

Try WNYC 93.9 FM and 820 AM at 4 PM.

Subject: RE: BS: NPR 'All Things Considered' in NYC area?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 01 Jun 06 - 12:55 PM

My suggestion also. I listen to WNYC when I'm in NYC.

Subject: RE: BS: NPR 'All Things Considered' in NYC area?
From: Charlie Baum
Date: 01 Jun 06 - 02:37 PM

New York City is one of those rare places in the U.S. where the public radio station (WNYC at 93.9 MHz) isn't below 92 on the FM dial, which is why you had a hard time finding it.

You can find NPR stations across the country using http://www.npr.org/stations/

--Charlie Baum

Subject: RE: BS: NPR 'All Things Considered' in NYC area?
From: artbrooks
Date: 01 Jun 06 - 03:47 PM

And publicradiofan.com includes program schedules.

Subject: RE: BS: NPR 'All Things Considered' in NYC area?
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 02 Jun 06 - 11:53 AM

Seattle also, KUOW and the one of out Tacoma, they're both in the middle. Don't remember the call numbers, but you have to aim in the middle for both classical (KING-FM) and KUOW.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: NPR 'All Things Considered' in NYC area?
From: PoppaGator
Date: 02 Jun 06 - 12:58 PM

Thanks, all.

I know we had listened to WNYC on previous visits, but just couldn't find it this time. I remembered the call letters but not the frequency.

And you're right, we pretty much confined our searches to the left-hand end of the dial.

Subject: RE: BS: NPR 'All Things Considered' in NYC area?
From: Don Firth
Date: 02 Jun 06 - 01:12 PM

If you ever get out this-a-way:

Living on Capital Hill in Seattle, on my magical Tom Swift electric radio I can get

KUOW from the University of Washington on 94.9. Talk and discussion all day long, some local, some national, including "All Things Considered." Monthly discussions and phoned in questions with the Mayor and the King County Executive, plus visiting dignitaries, authors, musicians, et al. News from Canada (local commentator in Victoria, BC) and regular news from the BBC.

KPLU in Tacoma, thirty-some miles south of Seattle (click "Schedule" in the blue left column) on 88.5. It's located on the Pacific Lutheran University Campus. A regular run of news programs, including "All Things Considered," plus jazz when not doing news.

And KBCS from Bellevue Community College east of Lake Washington on 91.3. Considering that most of the millionaires and billionaires in the area live on the "East Side," although KBCS doesn't have "All Things Considered" on their schedule, they do offer "Democracy Now!", "Free Speech Radio News," "Jim Hightower," and several other similar programs. They also play a variety of folk music during the day. For me, the only problem with KBCS is that where I live, the reception is sometimes a bit hashy. But I can get them on-line.

I think you can get all of these stations on-line. Right now I'm listening to KUOW, broadcast. Their transmitter tower is about twelve blocks away and they come in loud and clear.

My cup runneth over.

Don Firth

Subject: RE: BS: NPR 'All Things Considered' in NYC area?
From: FolkinReeGraves
Date: 10 Jun 06 - 11:26 PM

Doesn't WFUV (Fordham U) also have All Things considered?