There is one: "Live Wire Radio" from Portlandia, now an independent
company whose flagship stations are Oregon Public Broadcasting and
distributed by PRX, the co-operative program downloader that swallowed up
PRI (Michael Feldman: "The International House of Radio"). Hosted by
former NPRer Luke
I'll miss it too.
It was never a must-listen for me, but I listened to a portion of the show
almost every Saturday while driving.
Thile struggled in the early days when it was still APHC. But once the name
was changed, he came into his own, using an eclectic Americana-based lineup
of musical
This is a sidebar to the main point of the post, but Keillor was already
retired from hosting "A Prairie Home Companion" when the allegations and
subsequent investigation happened in 2017. Thile started hosting APHC in 2016,
and the name changed in 2017, mostly because MPR had separated from
"Live From Here," the Saturday night radio musical variety show that
American Public Media created as a successor to Garrison Kellior's "A
Prairie Home Companion" after Kellior resigned in the wake of allegations
of sexual misconduct in 2016, is going off the air as part of the letting
go of
