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- Glass started working in public radio in 1978, when he was 19, as an intern at NPR's headquarters in DC.
March 22, 2007. ( 2007-03-22) –. May 28, 2009. ( 2009-05-28) This American Life is an American television series based on the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program, the series is hosted by Ira Glass. The series premiered on March 22, 2007. Two seasons of the show aired on Showtime.
Sep 29, 2018 · Through his broadcasts over the course of forty years, Joe Frank, who died at seventy-nine this past January, brought the notion of the auteur to American radio. His legacy lives on in the work of Ira Glass, and Glass’s own outsize influence on radio and now podcasting, where many of the best shows don’t aim to break news or provide trenchant analysis. Instead, they prize, above all ...
Jun 27, 2013 · Tweet Share. Photograph by Richard Frank. Ira Glass started public radio’s. This American Life in 1995 with the reasonably ambitious aim of having it distributed on 60 stations. within the first two years. Today it’s broadcast to more than 2½ million people on. 500-plus stations, including WAMU-FM, as well as online. Its fusion of storytelling.
Host and executive producer Ira Glass launched the program in 1995 on WBEZ/Chicago as Your Radio Playhouse. By the following year, under its current name, it was in syndication via Public Radio International, and in 2006 Glass moved the show to New York City, where a televised version of This American Life was produced concurrently for Showtime ...
Mar 21, 2007 · Mr. Glass is a radio wonk who got his start as a 19-year-old intern at National Public Radio. He has since worked as an audiotape editor, a newscast writer and an education reporter.
Dec 16, 2020 · Ira Glass was firmly against having his photo taken when his show launched in 1995. He reconsidered. This American Life. By Ira Glass. The founder and host of “This American Life,” the...
Ira Jeffrey Glass (/ ˈ aɪ r ə /; born March 3, 1959) is an American public radio personality. He is the host and producer of the radio and television show This American Life . He also appeared in Morning Edition , All Things Considered , and Talk of the Nation .
