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Morning Edition anchor Renee Montagne discusses Velez' misspelled uniform on the Thursday, April 8, edition of the NPR News program.

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by Natto on Apr 8, 2010 2:46 PM PDT reply actions  

No. Since Morning Edition debuted in 1979, a thirty-second slot at the bottom of the hour has been reserved for a segment called the “return.” The segment is an opportunity to explore odd headlines or items that otherwise wouldn’t support a full feature story. This just happens to be the one that fed with the first hour of the show today. The hour two return was about a Florida county that hopes a big-budget movie will help them pick up the cost of demolishing a local bridge. They’re just light stories gleaned from the wires.

by TheLetter2 on Apr 8, 2010 2:52 PM PDT up reply actions  

ie, News of the Weird for the brie-and-latte elites.

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by leftymalo on Apr 8, 2010 4:01 PM PDT up reply actions  

Velez is so fast that he moved the letters on his jersey!

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by Gobroks on Apr 8, 2010 3:34 PM PDT reply actions  

no wonder so few people listen to NPR

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by Useful_Idiot on Apr 8, 2010 7:06 PM PDT reply actions  

Yes. 26 million Americans is a paltry sum, indeed. Larger than any of the individual broadcast evening newscasts, cable talk shows or talk radio formats. Few people listen to public broadcasting.

by TheLetter2 on Apr 8, 2010 9:22 PM PDT up reply actions  

bunch of hippie nutjobs if you ask me

NPR could just broadcast recipes for weed brownies and nobody would notice except the people who would appreciate it.

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by RDreamer on Apr 8, 2010 9:49 PM PDT up reply actions  

That’s a common perception. The listenership appears evenly split: 29 percent describe themselves as “conservative or very conservative,” with 30 percent described as moderates, and 31 percent described as “liberal or very liberal.”

Those numbers are far less lopsided than the equivalent categories for the TV networks. It’s a fascinating topic.

by TheLetter2 on Apr 9, 2010 4:58 AM PDT up reply actions  

Not being a bottom-line sort of enterprise, I’d have to imagine they’re out in more places then your typical… (repetition of shows you had).

My guess is their listener/area covered compared to other shows is much less kind to them than this 26-mil lump sum.

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The Kids: Lewis, Posey, Sandoval, Bowker, Schierholtz, Frandsen, Ishikawa, Amezaga... CHONE WAR projection= 12.7

Current Team: Rowand, Sanchez, DeRosa, Sandoval, Huff, Molina, Renteria, Schierholtz... CHONE WAR projection= 12.6

by dregarx on Apr 9, 2010 12:21 AM PDT up reply actions  

Fair enough. Let’s take a closer look. Ratings are measured two ways: cume and AQH. Cume measures the total audience that listens at least five minutes at a time (time to admit an error on my part: the 26 million I cited is an outdated figure). The correct figure for public radio’s cume as reported in March 2009 is 33 million people. So that means 33 million Americans tune into a public radio station for at least five minutes at a time.

That cume is even more impressive given the continual fragmentation of media markets; i.e., competition from the Internet, television, and satellite radio.

AQH, on the other hand, is a way to measure audience loyalty — that is, how long someone is listening. That’s measured in fifteen-minute increments. It’s a little trickier, and varies from station to station. You’d have to cosult your local station to find out.

As to your other point, about the service area: There are 903 stations in this country that carry public radio programming. It sounds like a lot, but you have to consider that some are 100,000-watt powerhouses such as KQED while some are low-power local stations that could be as small as 100 watts. Some states have great coverage, others are sparse. So we can’t assume the number public radio stations is equal to the areas the network can reach.

I hope this helps shed some light on what the numbers mean.

by TheLetter2 on Apr 9, 2010 5:39 AM PDT up reply actions  

geez man

You’re dropping some serious knowledge bombs today. Are you like a publicist for NPR?

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by RDreamer on Apr 9, 2010 10:02 AM PDT up reply actions  

Interesting information.

So people/area covered is probably very difficult to find, I guess.

Rooting for Jose Casilla to take his K- and GB-inducing skills to the majors and join his brother.

The Kids: Lewis, Posey, Sandoval, Bowker, Schierholtz, Frandsen, Ishikawa, Amezaga... CHONE WAR projection= 12.7

Current Team: Rowand, Sanchez, DeRosa, Sandoval, Huff, Molina, Renteria, Schierholtz... CHONE WAR projection= 12.6

by dregarx on Apr 9, 2010 3:08 PM PDT up reply actions  

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