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In reply to the discussion: 50 years of NPR!!! Love it or hate it.... when did you start listening to their programs?? [View all]TreasonousBastard
(43,049 posts)10. Don't remember when, but a long time ago. Used to drive a lot, and if I could find an...
NPR station, it was a great relief from local musical tastes and talk radio. Of course, it's been on Sirius for years now. Along with a lot of other stuff.
I do not understand the complaints about it. A lot of the programming is in depth reporting which you just don't get much of any more. Once in a while they have to have the other side show up because, well, they exist. One-sided news frm the left isn't any better than from the right.
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50 years of NPR!!! Love it or hate it.... when did you start listening to their programs?? [View all]
mitch96
May 2021
OP
When I used to drive across rural areas, often late at night, I cheered when I found an NPR station.
Hoyt
May 2021
#4
1980. Had a roommate from Minnesota who introduced me to A Prairie Home Companion.
Shrike47
May 2021
#5
KPFA (Pacifica radio) was my go-to station fifty years ago but I slowly migrated to KQED (NPR)...
Brother Buzz
May 2021
#8
If it's "only" fifty years old, I must have started at the very beginning. I still...
LAS14
May 2021
#9
Don't remember when, but a long time ago. Used to drive a lot, and if I could find an...
TreasonousBastard
May 2021
#10
I listened regularly until W when Talk of the Nation devoted a show to cosmetic surgery on Earth Day
tenderfoot
May 2021
#16
In October of 2004 I realized they'd jumped the shark - after decades of listening
Ron Green
May 2021
#32
Started in the early 80s; stopped in the mid 2000s when they swerved right.
lagomorph777
May 2021
#38