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Minnesota Public Radio® is one of the nation's premier public radio stations producing programming for radio, Internet and face-to-face audiences. With its three services —News & Information Service, Classical Music Service and The Current — operating a 40-station regional radio network and serving a regional population of 5 million people, MPR has 110,825 members and more than 900,000 listeners each week, the largest audience of any regional public radio network. Since its origins as a single classical music station in 1967 at KSJR in Collegeville, Minnesota Public Radio has earned nearly 1,000 broadcasting and journalism awards, including seven George Foster Peabody Awards (dubbed the "Oscar of broadcasting"), six Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards, a prestigious Alfred I. duPont-Columbia University Gold Baton Award and a GRAMMY Award. American Public Media, Minnesota Public Radio's parent organization, is the nation's second-largest producer and distributor of national public radio programs, reaching 15.6 million listeners nationwide each week. It is the largest producer and distributor of classical music programming in the country. Learn more about American Public Media. Minnesota Public Radio uses its regional network to deliver vital public services throughout Minnesota: * With assistance from the State of Minnesota, MPR maintains and improves the technical infrastructure to the state's Emergency Alert System (EAS) by providing signals to all other radio, television and cable stations in Minnesota. * MPR distributes the state's AMBER Alert System (the child abduction warning system) to all other broadcasting stations in Minnesota. * Supported by the Minnesota State Services for the Blind, MPR supplies the special sub-carrier signals that provide the Radio Talking Book, a reading service for the blind and visually handicapped. Minnesota Public Radio's 1,058-seat Fitzgerald Theater and 100-seat UBS Forum provide a venue for live remote broadcasts, discussion forums, political debates, cultural programming and more. Source: Data are copyright Arbitron, Inc. Arbitron data are estimates only. Spring 2009/Fall 2009 average. ------ Shows: A Prairie Home Companion, Harmonia, Performance Today, Classical 24 with Alison Young, Classical 24 with Bob Christiansen, Classical 24 with Gillian Martin, Classical 24 with Jeff Esworthy, Classical 24 with Julie Amacher, Classical 24 with Mindy Ratner, Classical 24 with Scott Blankenship, Classical 24 with Ward Jacobson, Pipe Dreams, SymphonyCast, Classical 24 with John Zech, Saint Paul Sunday, Classical Music with Alison Young, Classical Music with Bill Morelock, Classical Music with John Birge, Classical Music with Steve Staruch, Friday Favorites, Minnesota Orchestra, New Releases (MPR), Open Air (MPR), Opera (MPR), The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra ----- Hosts: Bob Christiansen, Gillian Martin, Scott Blankenship, Julie Amacher, Mindy Ratner, Ward Jacobson, Michael Barone, Carlos Kalmar, John Zech, Bill Mcglaughlin, Bill Morelock, Barb Abney, Steve Staruch, Annie Baxter, Jennifer Anderson