Day to Day

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Day to Day is a one-hour weekday American radio newsmagazine distributed by National Public Radio (NPR), and produced by NPR in collaboration with Slate. It premiered on Monday, July 28, 2003, and feeds to stations at 12 noon Eastern Time with updates until 4 pm Eastern. It is designed to be aired during the middle of the day, although some stations on the West Coast use it as an extension to Morning Edition.

NPR created Day to Day to extend NPR news coverage to a midday audience, continuing the tradition of fellow NPR newsmagazines All Things Considered and Morning Edition. Regularly covered topics include news, entertainment, politics and the arts. Contributors include familiar NPR personalities, reporters from NPR member stations, and writers for Slate. One unusual aspect of the show is a story and embedded promotion from a reporter from Marketplace, a show produced by NPR competitor American Public Media.

Unlike ATC and Morning Edition, which were produced at NPR's national headquarters in Washington, D.C., Day to Day was the first NPR newsmagazine produced at NPR West in Culver City, California, a Los Angeles suburb. (Morning Edition co-host Renée Montagne now broadcasts from NPR West as well.)

1 Format
2 Personnel
3 References
4 External links

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Format

Day to Day kicks off with a sixty-second billboard, wherein Alex Chadwick and Madeleine Brand talk about what will be coming up on the show. The billboard is followed by the standard NPR newscast from one minute past to six minutes past the hour. Some stations utilize the last 2.5 minutes of the newscast to deliver local midday news reports. A thirty-second music bed follows, and then Segment A begins.

Segment A (duration 12:29) contains the top story of the day, and usually synopses of longer-term issues viewed through the lens of cuurent events. Segment topics can range from the American judicial system to economics to geopolitics to conversations with notable newsmakers, and more. Segment A closes at ninteen minutes past the hour and leads into a two-minute station break.

At twenty-one after, Segment B (duration 7:49) begins. Segment B composes the remainder of the first half-hour, and as such continues coverage on important news events of the day, or segues into lighter--but still culturally or socially important--stories. Segment B closes at 28:50 past the hour, and goes into a local break until the bottom of the hour.

At half past the hour, Day to Day returns with Segment C1 (duration 5:14), usually reserved for interviews or commentary pieces. Segment C2 (duration 3:59) explores semi-heavy topics, but are generally not breaking news reports. Segment C2 stories are informative and sometimes humorous, but not necessarily time-sensitive.

Following another thirty-second music break, Day to Day enters Segment D (duration 8:59), which focuses on national or international stories expected to develop over the course of the day. Segment D runs from forty minutes to forty-nine minutes past the hour, and another two-minute station break ensues.

Segment E (duration 8:20) begins at fifty-one minutes past the hour, and is divided into Segments E1 and E2, which last roughly three and a half minutes each. Segment E1 is a discussion about an item of business news with a reporter from Marketplace, capped with a short preview of that evening's program. Segment E2 is usually devoted to commentary and light features, including "The Unger Report," a satirical take on news and current events. In some cases, Segment E is followed up by the credits, and Day to Day comes to a close.

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Personnel

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Hosts

For its first two and a half years, Day to Day was usually hosted by either longtime NPR host and correspondent Alex Chadwick or NPR news host Madeleine Brand. On January 16, 2006, Chadwick and Brand began co-hosting each program togetherTemplate:Ref.

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