1967: Garrison Keillor is 25. Nic Harcourt is 10. Ira Glass, 8. Congress signs the Public Broadcasting act of 1967, establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Signing it into law, president Lyndon Johnson says:
"It announces to the world that our Nation wants more than just material wealth; our Nation wants more than a "chicken in every pot". We in America have an appetite for excellence, too. While we work every day to produce new goods and to create new wealth, we want most of all to enrich man's spirit. That is the purpose of this act."
1970: 28, 13 and 11.
30 employees found NPR, absorbing the National Educational Radio Network (which had been in existence for some time).
1978: 36, 21 and 19.
Ruth Seymour becomes General Manager of the College Radio Workshop, formed in 1945 to train WWII vets in radio, and begins developing programming on the station we now know as KCRW.
1983: 41, 26, 22. The blogfather, 5.
PRI (Public Radio International) founded.
Now: All Things Considered. The Sound of Young America. Sounds Eclectic. Morning Becomes Eclectic. Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me and Says You. Left, Right and Center. Studio 360. This American Life. Fresh Air. Through genuinely inventive and in-depth programming, programming with intelligence and personality, a technology from the 1890s still daily takes its place among iPhones and RSS feeds.
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