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All songs considered.


Even if music no longer exists on radio, it now can be found on the net. The snippets of music--known as 'buttons" to insiders--that are heard between news and feature stories on National Public Radio's "All Things Considered All Things Considered (ATC) is a news radio program in the United States, broadcast on the National Public Radio network. It was the first news program on the network, and is broadcast live worldwide through several outlets. ," can now be heard at full length as part of a full-length musical program on your computer, if it has the necessary power and memory.

"All Songs Considered," as the program is punnishly named, has a streaming audio A one-way audio transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play audio clips and Internet radio. Computers in home networks stream audio (mostly music) to digital media hubs connected to home theaters.  format at www.npr.org/programs/asc and runs about an hour with Bob Boilen, a director of "All Things Considered," as the disc jockey disc jockey (DJ)

Person who plays recorded music on radio or television or at a nightclub or other live venue. Disc jockey programs became the economic base of many radio stations in the U.S. after World War II.
 and Bill Deputy as the producer. Both are involved with ATC ATC Air Traffic Control
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, with Boilen selecting picking the music heard twice every afternoon over KWMU in St. Louis.

The site includes information on each record, and sometimes a link to the label, and the artists often have been reviewed or interviewed on ATC.

Boilen began the program because so many listeners pestered him for more information on the music and the artists; the first show, now playing, went on the air early in January; a second was scheduled to make its debut in late February.

Joe Pollack is a former St. Louis Post-Dispatch The St. Louis Post-Dispatch is the only major city-wide newspaper in St. Louis, Missouri. Although written to serve Greater St. Louis, the Post-Dispatch is one of the largest newspapers in the region, and is available and read as far west as Springfield, Missouri.  columnist.
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Date:Mar 1, 2000
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