


Then the standard five-minute NPR newscast is delivered from one minute to six minutes past the hour. The program begins with the familiar Don Voegeli theme song under a one-minute billboard of the stories to be covered during the hour. Certain types of personal interest stories are almost always covered within this limit those relating to hard news or entertainment tend to last the standard three-and-a-half to four minutes. The length of stories tends to be greater than Morning Edition, with some stories lasting for almost 23 minutes. The format is less rigid than that of Morning Edition, with a wider array of type and length of stories.

A Saturday edition was added on January 8, 2022, with episodes hosted by WATC host Michel Martin. Consider This is also the successor to NPR's weekday afternoon Coronavirus Daily podcast, which had published throughout the spring of 2020. National podcast episodes are supplemented in select areas by additional local reporting and analysis from journalists at various NPR member stations, such as Dallas-based KERA. Similar to Up First, the podcast complement to the network's Morning Edition and Weekend Edition, NPR launched Consider This as a podcast companion to ATC on June 29, 2020, with ATC hosts providing in-depth analysis of a single story each weekday afternoon. ET on weeknights from the end of March through May 2020. On March 23, 2020, ATC launched The National Conversation, a live call-in show addressing listener questions about the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States. To coordinate the choice of interview partners in cultural coverage between ATC and other NPR shows (as of 2010: Morning Edition, the weekend editions, Talk of the Nation, and Tell Me More), NPR set up a " dibs list" system around 2005, whereby the first show to declare interest in a particular guest can "reserve" that person. Michel Martin is the current host of the program.ĪTC was excluded from the NPR deal with Sirius Satellite Radio so as not to compete with local stations airing the show. Weekend All Things Considered ( WATC) is a one-hour version of the show that premiered in 1974 and is broadcast on Saturdays and Sundays at 5 p.m. or earlier, that NPR premiered Morning Edition. It was not until 1979, by which time most affiliates had expanded their broadcast days to begin at 6 a.m. NPR chose to place its inaugural daily newscast at the afternoon commute timeslot instead of the morning because many of its affiliates at that time did not sign on for the day until mid-morning or afterward. and the growing anti– Vietnam War protests taking place there. The first story was about the march on Washington, D.C. During the first week, these stations were not allowed to broadcast the feed "live" but could record it for later broadcast. The first broadcast of ATC was fed to about 90 radio stations on May 3, 1971, with host Robert Conley. ATC is co-hosted by rotating cast of regular anchors current hosts include Ari Shapiro, Ailsa Chang, Mary Louise Kelly, and Juana Summers. In September 2010, All Things Considered had an average quarter-hour audience of 1.8 million. 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. Broadcasts run about 105 minutes with local content interspersed in between to complete two hours. Central Time) (20:00 to 22:00 UTC), and is re-fed with updates until 10 p.m. A weekend version of ATC, Weekend All Things Considered, airs on Saturdays and Sundays.ĪTC programming combines news, analysis, commentary, interviews, and special features broadcast live daily from 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time (live) or Pacific Time (recorded with some updates in Hawaii it airs as a fully recorded program) or from 3:00 p.m. The show combines news, analysis, commentary, interviews, and special features, and its segments vary in length and style. All Things Considered and Morning Edition were the highest rated public radio programs in the United States in 20. It is broadcast live on NPR affiliated stations in the United States, and worldwide through several different outlets, formerly including the NPR Berlin station in Germany. It was the first news program on NPR, premiering on May 3, 1971. News: analysis, commentary, features, interviews, specialsĪll Things Considered ( ATC) is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio (NPR). For other uses, see All Things Considered (disambiguation). This article is about the NPR news program.
