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Essential Public Media is an independent and innovative listener-supported public media organization. We give voice to provocative ideas, fostering an increasingly vibrant, informed, diverse and caring community. Essential Public Media is Pittsburgh's only independent public radio news and information station.

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Press Releases

• Essential Public Radio Signal On The Mend (November 17, 2011)
• Essential Public Radio and WYEP End Fall Fundraising Campaigns with Positive Results (October 24, 2011)
• Essential Public Media Hires 14 to Staff New 90.5 FM Public Radio Station (June 23, 2011)
• In-Depth NPR News & Information Radio to Launch in Pittsburgh on 90.5 FM (May 25, 2011)
• Duquesne University Selects Essential Public Media to Acquire WDUQ-FM (January 14, 2011)