Weekend All Things Considered
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| Genre | News: analysis, commentary, features, interviews, specials |
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| Running time | 135 minutes weekdays; 50 minutes weekends approx. |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Home station | NPR |
| Hosted by |
Robert Siegel Audie Cornish Kelly McEvers Ari Shapiro (regularly) |
| Original release | May 3, 1971 – present |
| Website | www |
| Podcast | Podcast |
All Things Considered (ATC) is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio (NPR). It was the first news program on NPR, premiering on May 3, 1971. It is broadcast live on NPR affiliated stations in the United States, and worldwide through several different outlets, including the NPR Berlin station in Germany.All Things Considered and Morning Edition were the highest rated public radio programs in the United States in 2002 and 2005. The show combines news, analysis, commentary, interviews, and special features, and its segments vary in length and style. ATC airs weekdays from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (live) or Pacific Standard Time (recorded with some updates, even in Hawaii airs in their local time slot as a fully recorded program) or from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. Central Standard Time. A weekend version of ATC, Weekends On All Things Considered, airs on Saturdays and Sundays.
ATC programming combines news, analysis, commentary, interviews, and special features broadcast live daily from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Eastern Time (3 to 5 pm Central Time) (20:00 to 22:00 UTC), and is re-fed with updates until 10 p.m. ET (9 p.m. CT) or 7 p.m. PT (02:00 UTC). Broadcasts run about 105 minutes with local content interspersed in between to complete two hours. In 2005, ATC aired on over 560 radio stations and reached an audience of approximately 12 million listeners each weekday, making it the third most listened to radio program in the United States after The Rush Limbaugh Show and Morning Edition. In September 2010, All Things Considered had an average quarter-hour audience of 1.8 million.ATC is co-hosted by Robert Siegel, Audie Cornish, Ari Shapiro and Kelly McEvers, regularly by turns.
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