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About Aspen Public Radio
Each weekday, Aspen Public Radio broadcasts 16 hours of national radio programming from NPR, American Public Media, PRX, and WNYC, along with 8 hours of international programming from the BCC and PRX. Approximately 18,000 listeners tune in each week to Aspen Public Radio, and the need is greater than ever to serve the diverse communities of the valley by investing in local reporting on the complex issues we are working to explore and address – with radio providing a unique and convenient way of delivering daily news. We employ a team of local broadcast journalists - covering Aspen to Glenwood Springs, and Rifle to Eagle.
Public radio is vital in providing the information we all need to fully exercise our rights in our democracy. Free, over-the-air public radio broadcast signals cover nearly 99% of the nation’s population and remain the most easily accessed daily news source for audiences nationwide — especially in rural communities. Whether it’s a better understanding of the actions of your elected officials, opportunities or concerns around potential policy decisions, the invitation to get involved and participate in community actions, or the introduction of new ideas and creative solutions, free access to news and information and the presence of local journalists are critical to a healthy community.
To support, nourish, and enrich our community by providing informative, entertaining, and educational radio and digital programming in a reliable and professional manner.
Founded in 1980 as Roaring Fork Public Radio Translator, Aspen Public Radio has grown from broadcasting the daily hog prices from the University of Wyoming to being considered one of the most relied-upon broadcast news institutions serving Pitkin, Eagle, and Garfield counties. Aspen Public Radio is proud of our work as the only public broadcaster based in Pitkin County, serving an audience of 18,000 weekly listeners along with over 40,000 monthly pageviews by users online.
Each weekday, Aspen Public Radio broadcasts hours of national radio programming from NPR, American Public Media, PRX, and WNYC, along with 8 hours of international programming from the BCC and PRX (The World). From 7-9 a.m. and 4-6 p.m., local newscasts and radio features are broadcast within national programming. On the weekend, the station broadcasts a schedule of 22 national radio programs along with an evening special each Sunday night at 7 p.m. to broadcast a locally-recorded public event captured in front of a live local audience.
As a relied-upon source of daily radio news, Aspen Public Radio provides access to reporting on and critical analysis of key regional, national, and international issues, and work to connect listeners from throughout our community to each other. Now in our forty-fourth year of service to the Roaring Fork Valley, we see ourselves as educators, conveners, and connectors.
Organization name
Aspen Public Radio
other names
Roaring Fork Public Radio, Inc.
1981
Tax id (EIN)
84-0884901
Category
Public & Societal Benefit, Arts, Culture & Humanities, Environment, Public Safety, Disaster Preparedness & Relief, Mutual & Membership Benefit
Organization Size
Large Organization
Address
110 E HALLAM ST STE 134Aspen, CO, US, 81611
Snowmass Village, CO, US
Basalt, CO, US
Carbondale, CO, US, 81623
Glenwood Springs, CO, US, 81601