NPR West to Host SoundGirls.Org
January 10, 2015
10:00 am
Join SoundGirls.Org as we tour NPR West with SG Members and NPR Staff. Angie Hamilton-Lowe works as a Coordinating Producer for News Operations and Marcia Caldwell works as a Broadcast Recording Technician.
NPR West is the second largest facility owned by NPR. NPR produces news, talk, music and entertainment programs, including Morning Edition and All Things Considered, the third and fourth most listened to shows in all of news/talk radio. In total, NPR produces and distributes 27 programs that air nationally and are available across digital platforms. Late in 2013, All Things Considered began to broadcast from the Culver City facility on Saturdays and Sundays, with new weekend host Arun Rath. NPR West is now a state of the art production house and employs a staff of about 60. All Things Considered (ATC) will be broadcasting the Saturday of our tour.
Highlights of the Tour will include:
Tour NPR West
Discuss Technical Operations
Visit to the Studio were the Bi-Coastal Morning Edition is Broadcast
Learn What it Takes to Prepare Shows for Broadcast
We will rendezvous after the tour for lunch – TBA
Please email soundgirls.org@gmail.com to reserve your spot
Learn about NPR West and their studio