About KUOW: Affiliates

	National Public Radio (NPR) is an international producer and distributor of non-commercial news, talk, and entertainment programming. A privately supported, not-for-profit membership organization, NPR serves a growing audience of more than 25 million Americans each week in partnership with more than 800 independently operated, non-commercial public radio member stations such as KUOW.
	Since it was first formed as a company in 1922, five years before it received its first Royal Charter and became the British Broadcasting Corporation, the BBC has been a world leader in program production.
	Public Radio International (PRI), an independent, not-for-profit corporation and managing partner of American Public Radio LLC, the satellite radio company, is public radio's leading source for innovative programming and audio content. Based in Minneapolis, PRI provides over 400 hours of programming each week, content that is broadcast and streamed online by 745 independently operated, non-commercial affiliate radio stations such as KUOW.
	American Public Media (APM) is one of the nation's premier public radio producers. Some 20 national programs and specials, including A Prairie Home Companion®, Marketplace® and Saint Paul Sunday® comprise the American Public Media portfolio. 14.7 million people listen to American Public Media programs each week through independently operated, non-commercial affiliate radio stations such as KUOW.
	KUOW and a consortium of public media, libraries and other public institutions offer P.S.S., the Public Site Search - a single-stop search website for the Puget Sound region.