{"id":21083,"date":"2025-09-14T01:57:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T01:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/21083\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T01:57:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T01:57:12","slug":"public-stations-dominate-americas-top-10-news-talkers-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/21083\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Stations Dominate America\u2019s Top 10 News\/Talkers. | Story"},"content":{"rendered":"

The President might not be a fan of public radio \u2014 having driven the House vote<\/a> to pull back $1.1 billion in funding to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting \u2014 but listeners across the U.S. most certainly are.<\/p>\n

Based on delivery of persons 6+ in Nielsen\u2019s PPM markets during its winter and spring 2025 waves, eight of Inside Radio\u2019s TOP 10 news\/talk stations \u2014 including four of the top five \u2014 are non-commercial listener-supported entities, featuring weekday and weekend programming from National Public Radio along with local news and locally-originated shows. These eight stations combine to deliver a 4.3 million cume.<\/p>\n

Topping the list is San Francisco\u2019s KQED (88.5), which has led all stations in the market for the past eight Nielsen surveys, and has ranked first or second in every book since November 2023. Started in 1969 under the direction of Bernard Mayes, who went on to become NPR\u2019s co-founder and chairman, KQED aired the first edition of NPR\u2019s afternoon drive mainstay \u201cAll Things Considered.\u201d In addition to its frequent local and California news updates, KQED produces several syndicated programs, including the issues-based talk show \u201cForum\u201d along with \u201cTech Nation\u201d and \u201cThe California Report.\u201d<\/p>\n

Second-ranked WNYC-FM (93.9) New York, which has served the city since 1946, is the home base for syndicated shows \u201cOn the Media,\u201d \u201cThe Brian Lehrer Show\u201d and \u201cRadiolab,\u201d as well as local news-based podcast \u201cConsider This.\u201d Placing third is American University’s WAMU (88.5), which has been Washington, DC\u2019s No. 1 or 2 station since January 2022, and produces the NPR-distributed daily news\/talk show \u201c1A.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Five other news\/talk stations that made the cut are also public outlets and NPR affiliates, airing its \u201cMorning Edition\u201d in AM drive and \u201cAll Things Considered\u201d afternoons, with local news inserts throughout each show. Two of these stations are in Los Angeles: fourth-ranked Pasadena Area Community College \u201cLAist\u201d KPCC (89.3), and Santa Monica College KCRW (89.9), placing eighth.<\/p>\n

Other public stations in the top 10 are Chicago Public Media WBEZ (91.5), North Texas Public Broadcasting KERA (90.1) Dallas, and Minnesota Public Radio KNOW (91.1) Minneapolis.<\/p>\n

The two commercial stations in news\/talk\u2019s top 10 are fifth-ranked Cox Media Group WSB-AM (750)\/WSBB-FM (95.5) Atlanta \u2014 home to \u201cAtlanta\u2019s Morning News\u201d hosted by Chris Chandler, and \u201cThe Von Haessler Doctrine\u201d in PM drive \u2014 and iHeartMedia\u2019s KTRH (740 AM) Houston, which features \u201cHouston\u2019s Morning News with Jimmy Barrett\u201d and originates Michael Berry\u2019s nationally-syndicated conservative talk show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The President might not be a fan of public radio \u2014 having driven the House vote to pull…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21084,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,4975,157,111,43,139,69],"class_list":["post-21083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-free","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21083","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21083"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21083\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21083"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21083"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21083"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}