Chicago Public Radio is tagged as: podcast, public radio, this american life, npr, radio WBEZ Chicago Public Radio (CPR) is a noncommercial, public radio station broadcasting from Chicago, Illinois. Financed primarily by listener contributions, Chicago Public Radio is affiliated with both National Public Radio (NPR) and Public Radio International (PRI). As of 2006, the station draws an estimated 600,000 listeners each week. WBEZ/CPR is the home of Ira Glass of This American Life. Programming on Chicago Public Radio includes the usual world music, quiz shows, and international and local news on a regular basis. It offers such staples as All Things Considered, Car Talk, Marketplace, Morning Edition, A Prairie Home Companion, and Whad’Ya Know. Currently, Chicago Public Radio is best known nationally as the producers of This American Life through Public Radio International, and Wait Wait… Don’t Tell Me! through NPR. Generally, news and talk programming is heard during the day, with arts and culture programming on the weekends. Legendary jazz disc jockey Dick Buckley has a time slot Sunday afternoons. Chicago Public Radio was at one time the flagship station of Steve Cushing’s nationally distributed Saturday night blues music program Blues before Sunrise, which started in 1979 and has been independently produced and distributed by Cushin... Read More About Chicago Public Radio Biography...  Send Chicago Public Radio ringtones to your cell
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