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All Things Considered premiered on the 3rd of May, 1971, fed to about 90 radio stations. It was the first news program produced by NPR. During its opening week, stations were only permitted to record the feed for later broadcast, not air it live.
Robert Conley hosted the first broadcast of All Things Considered in 1971. The current weekday hosts are Ailsa Chang, Mary Louise Kelly, Juana Summers, and Scott Detrow.
By 2005, All Things Considered reached approximately 12 million listeners each weekday, making it the third most listened-to radio program in the United States. In September 2010, its average quarter-hour audience was 1.8 million.
NPR placed All Things Considered in the afternoon commute slot in 1971 because many of its affiliates did not sign on for the day until mid-morning or later. A morning slot was not practical until affiliates expanded their broadcast days, which led NPR to launch Morning Edition in 1979.
All Things Considered has won the Peabody Award, the Ohio State Award, the Overseas Press Club Award, the DuPont Award, the American Women in Radio and Television Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Award. In 1993, it became the first public radio program inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame.
Yes. In 2017, the Library of Congress selected the original 1971 broadcast episode of All Things Considered for preservation in the National Recording Registry. Recordings in that collection are considered culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant.