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What might have happened: NPR sells off cultural programming, new network dubbed ‘NPR Music & Entertainment’

By Wes Horner | June 24, 2021

In an alternate reality in 1983, NPR President Frank Mankiewicz, desperate for cash, unloads the network’s arts programs on a consortium of major-market stations. Where would arts programming be today?

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