Minnesota Public Radio
National Program List

MPR Acquires Marketplace Productions

• MPR: An Overview

• MPR History

• MPR Commitment to Minnesota

• MPR National Program List

• Marketplace: An Overview

• Marketplace History

• Complete set of above documents in PDF format (Readable with the free Acrobat Reader.)

• MPR's National Program Data (PDF format)

• U.S. Map of MPR Programs (PDF format)

MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO's influence has grown far beyond the borders of Minnesota and radio. Below is a list of products developed by MPR for radio, the Internet, events, and print:

RADIO
Nationally, no less than 14 of MPR's programs are carried by other public radio stations:

• A Prairie Home Companion
• American RadioWorks
• Classical 24
• Future Tense
• Marketplace
• Marketplace Morning Report
• The Minnesota Orchestra
• Pipedreams
• Saint Paul Sunday
• The Savvy Traveler
• Sound Money
• The Splendid Table
• The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra
• The Writer's Almanac

Regionally, there is a News and Information Service and a Classical Music Service providing 24-hour, 7-day-a-week programming throughout Minnesota and its bordering communities. The News and Information Service is supported by the largest newsroom of any broadcast entity in the Upper Midwest. The Classical Music Service provides listeners with music from over 50,000 compact discs and LPs, one of the largest classical music collections in the country.

INTERNET - www.mpr.org
With a high-quality Web site that recorded more than 1 million hits per week in 1999, and streaming audio, MPR now distributes its program content via the Internet, which is an ideal fit for the 22 million-plus public radio listeners. MPR's exploration into "New Media" has created the following products:

• eXplore Radio™ - an online partnership with National Public Radio (NPR) that helps public radio stations and program producers strengthen their own online experience through programming, audience interaction opportunities and e-commerce options.
• RadioScout™ - a public radio program search engine made available for public radio station Web sites across the country.
• Powerful news coverage, including daily news from the MPR newsroom; hourly online newscasts; and, in a partnership with NPR, in-depth reporting with hour-long news specials by American RadioWorks.

EVENTS
MPR sponsors a variety of media events including A Prairie Home Companion Touring Company; the Sound Money Personal Finance Fair; the Fitzgerald Forums, a series of community dialogs with Public Affairs leaders; statewide and national symposiums on Civic Journalism; a statewide lecture series on Broadcast Journalism; and a Classical Music Listening Contest for Minnesota High School students.

PRINT
A sampling of MPR publications includes: Inside MPR, the MPR program guide that appears in Minnesota Monthly magazine; A Prairie Home Companion Joke Book, a compilation of jokes taken from the annual A Prairie Home Companion joke show; The Minnesota Action Plan to End Gun Violence, a special report for Minnesota Monthly magazine; Chris Farrell's Sound Money Guide to Economic Literacy, a brochure on key economics concepts; and Minnesota in the .Com Age, proceedings from a summit on where Minnesota stands in the high-technology revolution.