My Source

I started listening to WNYC mainly because my girlfriend would listen to it. Then on my own I started listening and I thought “This is pretty cool stuff.” I wake up to WNYC every day. The election information is not just shallow numbers. They delve into stories for the reasons why what happened happened. WNYC is my source for news and information you can go to the bank with.

Conrad, Brooklyn, NY

I listen to all of Leonard Lopate’s and Brian Lehrer’s podcasts while I’m running or on the subway. They bring issues into new light in ways I never would have thought of. I feel very lucky as a listener. What they do really well is bring you what’s current in the arts and local politics. I’m a bit of a fact-dropper … WNYC is definitely my source for local news, arts coverage — and conversation!

—Emily

I wake up in the morning to Brian Lehrer. It’s fascinating to learn what other people in your city are thinking and feeling. It’s everything from the state of our affairs in politics to what’s happening in City Hall to what’s going on with the parking on your block to great food and where to get it. WNYC is my source for culture and cool insights into the people living in my city. It’s my morning drug.

-- Liz

I need to know what’s going on in the world, what’s going on in my community. I have a large appetite for information that you wouldn’t necessarily get from general sources. WNYC provides information that I find to be relevant, in-depth, and topical. It’s just not sound bites. I get substance out of the programming. WNYC is my source for intellectual development and appreciation.

— Raymond M., Brooklyn, NY

WNYC is my partner all day. I listen; I go out; I listen in the car. I'm a 76 year old suburban woman who keeps her brain in gear. You keep it hot and ready/current.

I learn; I challenge (in my head); I disagree but my critical thinking function is continually questioning. You're wonderful; nothing like it elsewhere.

Be lost without you.

I listened to WNYC, when I was little before NPR. Now I truly value the programs with Jonathon Schwartz.I have been listening to him for many years on many stations. Thank yhou for his shows. I also appreciate Prairie Home Companion, especially Sunday on am

Part of what I look for from public radio is to hear different sides of the story. In a city with as much color and energy as New York, no other station gives me that whole perspective, not just of the city, but of the rest of the country. WNYC is my source for balanced news and information. It’s like a member of my family. Marc F, Manhattan

I wake up and go to sleep with WNYC and listen online intermittently throughout the day. For me this is the best way to learn what's really going on and be entertained at the same time. No hooplah, no commercials, no drama in the reporting. It makes me feel good to have a wide, in depth perspective of what's going on and how it effects the world and me.

I turned on WNYC years ago by accident and caught Leonard Lopate talking to Pegeen Fitzgerald on a show called Senior Edition. It wasn't at all "Senior"! I couldn't stop listening, even though at the time I was in my thirties. That show turned out to be a portal to Brian, and John Hockenberry, and Ray Suarez, and Terry Gross, The Infinite Mind,This American Life, and even Car Talk! My kids listen...My husband listens.We're all smarter because of you, and infinitely entertained.

WNYC is my source for... well, everything. I finally got rid of my television a year ago and now instead of zoning out on lazy mornings or tired evenings, I have the radio on most of the day. It's the first thing I do in the morning, even before brewing that necessary cup of coffee. My quality of life has shot up dramatically. I work in network commercial news, but listen to WNYC at home because of the perspective and more in depth conversation and explorations on topics it and it's network programming provide. I sometimes feel distanced from what's happening locally, but catch up with that on the Brian Lehrer Show and I'm helplessly in love with the weekends. Public radio's a fundamental part of my life.

Almost no one other than WNYC is making an effort in the mainstream media to challenge conventional explanations. Although cautiously, WNYC does open an issue, raise the light, just a little bit more toward what is really going on here and in the World. Brian and Lenny, and to some extent some of the non-wnyc talk shows, do challenge the standard narrative with an oblique question here and there, to help get some light on the issues we must deal with as Americans.