The afternoon drive-time newscast All Things Considered premiered on May 3, 1971, first hosted by Robert Conley. NPR aired its first broadcast on April 20, 1971, covering United States Senate hearings on the ongoing Vietnam War in Southeast Asia. The board then hired Donald Quayle to be the first president of NPR with 30 employees and 90 charter member local stations, and studios in Washington, D.C. A CPB organizing committee under John Witherspoon first created a board of directors chaired by Bernard Mayes. Johnson, and established the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which also created the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) for television in addition to NPR. This act was signed into law by 36th President Lyndon B. National Public Radio replaced the National Educational Radio Network on February 26, 1970, following Congressional passage of the Public Broadcasting Act of 1967. However, National Public Radio remains the legal name of the group, as it has been since 1970. is NPR" has been used by its radio hosts for many years. In June 2010, the organization announced that it was "making a conscious effort to consistently refer to ourselves as NPR on-air and online" because NPR is the common name for the organization and the tag line "This. The organization's legal name is National Public Radio and its trademarked brand is NPR it is known by both names.
As of March 2018, the drive-time programs attract an audience of 14.9 million and 14.7 million per week, respectively. The organization's flagship shows are two drive-time news broadcasts: Morning Edition and the afternoon All Things Considered, both carried by most NPR member stations, and among the most popular radio programs in the country. NPR produces and distributes news and cultural programming. It serves as a national syndicator to a network of over 1,000 public radio stations in the United States. Most of its member stations are owned by non-profit organizations, including public school districts, colleges, and universities. It differs from other non-profit membership media organizations such as Associated Press, in that it was established by an act of Congress.
Material from The Associated Press was included in this report.National Public Radio ( NPR, stylized in all uppercase) is an American privately and state funded nonprofit media organization headquartered in Washington, D.C., with its NPR West headquarters in Culver City, California. The disruption caused alarm in the wake of last month's acts of sabotage that ruptured the two main natural gas pipelines running from Russia to Germany underneath the Baltic Sea, an incident that spurred NATO and the European Union to stress the need to better protect critical infrastructure. While the motive for the incident was unclear, it came a day before a state election in the German state of Lower Saxony where German chancellor Olaf Scholz's Social Democratic Party is on track to retain power and the Green party is seen as doubling its share of the vote. "The investigation will have to yield that." "We can't say anything today either about the background to this act or the perpetrators," Wissing said. Transport Minister Volker Wissing said the affected cables are "essential for handling railway traffic safely." He said Germany's federal police were investigating the incident.įederal police said the crime scenes were in a Berlin suburb and in the western state of North Rhine-Westphalia, German news agency dpa reported. German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser said cables vital for the country's rail network were intentionally cut in two places, causing a sudden halt to all rail traffic, both passenger and cargo, in the northern part of the country. BERLIN - German authorities say a malicious and targeted act of sabotage caused a three-hour halt to all rail traffic in northern Germany on Saturday morning.
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