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‘Prairie Home’ host announces new house band
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Two members are in Thile’s band Punch Brothers.
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APM asks stations to help promote revamped ‘Prairie Home’
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APM hopes the program will attract new and diverse audiences.
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With Keillor moving on, stations ponder future with a changing ‘Prairie Home’
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As it transitions to a new host, the weekend mainstay is losing an iconic presence.
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Keillor’s goal by fall 2016: ‘To be a gray eminence’
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Keillor wants to “fade away into well-deserved obscurity.”
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Garrison Keillor reveals next host for ‘A Prairie Home Companion’
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Keillor will co-host with his new host starting next season.
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Friday roundup: Tell Me More ends; PBS Digital Studios seeks diverse cast
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Plus: Prairie Home encourages listening parties, and consumers show interest in the NextRadio app.
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Tuesday roundup: 40 years of Prairie Home, Tamara Keith’s NPR letters
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Plus: Steve Inskeep visits Charlie Rose, and a Mister Rogers statue gets refurbished.
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Afternoon roundup: Prairie Home Companion tailgating, Madeleine Brand returns to radio
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Episode four of the new season of Portlandia, starring Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, will feature A Prairie Home Companion tailgating. The sketch is also being spun off into a series of four webisodes, which can be viewed online before the season premiere. Season four of Portlandia premieres Feb. 27 at 10 p.m. on the Independent Film Channel. If an avid blogger can’t leave a comment on your website, he’ll write about it. That’s what tech-savvy journalist Doc Searls did when he encountered issues with a story from WBUR, Boston’s NPR news station.
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New youth-flavored variety entries move genre out of its Prairie Home
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Once thought to have been left for dead after the vaudeville era, variety shows have re-entered the public radio reinvention conversation — and it doesn’t take Guy Noir to find out why.