''Here and Now'' (stylized as ''Here & Now'') is a public radio magazine program produced by NPR and

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and distributed across the United States by NPR to over 450 stations, with an estimated 4.5 million weekly listeners.

Schedule

On July 1, 2013, ''Here and Now'' began broadcasting as a two-hour program with a "full rollover" (meaning the show broadcasts from noon to 4 p.m. ET) airing Monday to Friday and generally in the midday hours on its affiliate stations. The show covers U.S. and international news, and provides arts and culture coverage. ''Here and Now'' has three cutaways for newscasts: one from :04:00 to :06:00 past the hour, occupying a portion of the national five-minute newscast from NPR, and two one-minute summaries of national news headlines at 0:18:00 and 0:38:00 past the hour, produced and anchored in-house at WBUR.

History

''Here and Now'' first began airing in 1998, when it was co-hosted by Tovia Smith and Bruce Gellerman. At the time, the show was billed as a local or regional current affairs show, concentrating on newsworthy events throughout the six

New England New England is a region comprising six states in the Northeastern United States: Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. It is bordered by the state of New York to the west and by the Canadian provinces ...

states. The show expanded to include national and international elements, its current format, soon after. Host Robin Young joined the show in 2000, replacing Smith, and outlasted a series of co-hosts, including founding co-host and executive producer Gellerman. In 2005, WBUR had announced that the show would return to its roots as a local current affairs program, but a national distribution deal with PRI changed that plan. The cancellation of NPR's midday newsmagazine '' Day to Day'' in March 2009 left a gap in public radio's programming day. News-heavy stations in some markets opted to pick up ''Here and Now'' as the replacement. Building on that philosophy, on March 29, 2013, NPR and WBUR announced that call-in show ''

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'' would cease production and NPR would replace it with a two-hour version of ''Here and Now''. The reported reason for the change was a desire of bigger NPR member stations to have a midday magazine-style news show acting as a bridge between network stalwarts ''

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'' and ''

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''. The expanded version of ''Here and Now'' debuted on July 1, 2013, with

Jeremy Hobson Jeremy Hobson is an American national radio journalist. He was a co-host, along with Robin Young and Tonya Mosley, of NPR and WBUR's ''Here and Now''. He left the show in October 2020. Education and personal life A native of Urbana, Illinois, ...

as a second host. Tonya Mosley became a co-host in 2019, while Jeremy Hobson left in October 2020.

Scott Tong Scott Tong is an American journalist and radio host. He is a former correspondent for ''Marketplace'' on APM. He is the co-host of ''Here & Now'' along with Robin Young use both this parameter and , birth_date to display the person's date of ...

joined the show as co-host on August 9, 2021. Mosley stepped down as a host in 2022, while

Deepa Fernandes Deepa Fernandes is one of the hosts of NPR's Here and Now. She has formerly hosted the WBAI radio program '' Wakeup Call'' and the nationally syndicated Pacifica radio news show ''Free Speech Radio News'' on the politically independent, anti-war ...

joined the show on October 10, 2022. The entire program was available as a podcast until September 16, 2022. After that its podcast stream was replaced by a smaller selection of current news stories, roughly 30 minutes per day (1/3 of the entire program), along with some occasional longer in-depth stories, and rebranded "Here & Now Anytime." The complete daily show is still being broadcast on radio and can also be accessed on WBUR's website.

References

External links

Official website
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