Fresh Air

Information about Fresh Air

*Fresh Air*

Other names	Fresh Air Weekend
Genre	Talk radio
Running time	ca. 50 min.
Country	United States
Language(s)	English
Home station	WHYY-FM
Syndicates	NPR
Host(s)	Terry Gross David Bianculli (Friday) Dave Davies (Guest Host)
Director(s)	Roberta Shorrock
Producer(s)	Amy Salit Phyllis Myers
Executive producer(s)	Terry Gross Danny Miller
Recording studio	Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Air dates	1975 – present
Audio format	Stereophonic
Opening theme	"Fresh Air"
Website	freshair.npr.org
Podcast feed	Podcast Site

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Fresh Air is a radio show broadcast on National Public Radio stations across the United States each weekday. In 2004, the show was syndicated to 445 stations and claimed 4.4 million listeners. In addition, some stations carry Fresh Air Weekend, a "best-of" highlight show of the past week's interviews.

Beginnings

The show began in 1975 at NPR affiliate WHYY-FM in Philadelphia with Judy Blank as host; in September of that year Terry Gross took over as presenter and producer; over thirty years later she remains its chief presenter. The main segment of the show is characterized by an interview, usually of persons in the arts and entertainment field, although other newsmakers, cultural figures, and journalists have also been featured. Shorter segments follow the main segment and carry reviews of various cultural and entertainment diversions on a rotating basis. These include such venues as movies, books, stage plays, television programs, as well as recordings of popular music, jazz, and classical music. The program also features commentary from a range of regular contributors.

Background

Terry Gross

Most of the program's interviews are recorded on tape and later edited down. As in the case of many such radio programs, guests are often not in the studio during recording. While nearly all other radio programming now use digital recording, Fresh Air is still recorded, edited, and played on analog reel-to-reel tape. However, the program's website announced in 2006 that the aging tapes were now deteriorating and that they would soon begin transferring the thousands of interviews "to a digital format and indexing them." The show usually uses fiber-optic lines to conduct its interviews leading to a superior sound quality. When pressing news requires, it has gone live as during the Soviet coup attempt of 1991.

In 1993 NPR, Fresh Air, and Gross were presented with the George Foster Peabody Award with praise for her "probing questions, revelatory interviews, and unusual insights."^[1]

In February of 2002 Gross interviewed Gene Simmons of KISS in an infamous clash of NPR propriety and rock star flamboyance. Simmons discussed his sexual experimentation with women of all age groups and propositioned Gross in demonstration. According to NPR's web site, Simmons withheld permission to supply transcripts or audio of the interview on their website.^[2]

Fresh Air interviews are generally first aired on the Monday through Thursday shows. The Friday shows are rebroadcasts of past interviews.

The show's theme, "Fresh Air", was composed for the program by Joel Forrester of The Microscopic Septet.

In 2004 Gross published a book of her favorite interviews from the show under the title All I Did Was Ask.^[3]

Staff

As of 2007, the program's staff is as follows:

Terry Gross - Host, Co-Executive Producer
Danny Miller - Co-Executive Producer
Roberta Shorrock - Director
Dorothy Ferebee - Station Services Coordinator
Monique Nazareth - Producer
Naomi Person - Producer
Amy Salit - Producer
Phyllis Myers - Producer
Ann Marie Baldonado - Producer
Ian Chillag - Associate Producer
Patty Leswing - Associate Producer
Sam Briger - Researcher

References

1. ^ The Peabody Award Winners Archive. The Peabody Award. Retrieved on 2007-03-13.
2. ^ Gross, Terry; Simmons, Gene. Leader and Bassist of the Band Kiss, Gene Simmons (.MP3) [Audio]. Fresh Air, WHYY; NPR. Retrieved on 2007-03-13.
3. ^ Gross, Terry (2004). All I Did Was Ask: Conversations with Writers, Actors, Musicians, and Artists. New York: Hyperion. ISBN 1401300103.

External links

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Talk Radio UK, a former national UK talk station which is to be relaunched the new digital radio licence by the 4 Digital Group.
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"In God We Trust" (since 1956)
"E Pluribus Unum" ("From Many, One"; Latin, traditional)
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Writing system: Latin (English variant)
Official status
Official language of: 53 countries
Regulated by: no official regulation
Language codes
ISO 639-1: en
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WHYY-FM

City of license Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Broadcast area Delaware Valley
Branding "WHYY 91 FM or 91 FM"
Frequency 90.9 (MHz) (Also on HD Radio)
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National Public Radio

Type Public radio network
First air date April 1971
Country United States
Availability Global
Founded 1970
Owner National Public Radio, Inc.
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Terry Gross

Terry Gross at the Georgia Tech FERST Center for the Arts, in Atlanta, November 2006.

Born 1951

Show Fresh Air
Station(s) WHYY, NPR

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Daniel Miller is the co-executive producer of Fresh Air, an interview-format radio program produced by WHYY-FM in Philadelphia and distributed throughout the United States by National Public Radio.
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Radio is the wireless transmission of signals, by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space.
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