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As of July 1, Chicago Public Media and Ira Glass will start independently distributing the public radio show This American Life to over 500 public radio stations. Episodes will be delivered to radio stations by PRX, The Public Radio Exchange. Since 1997, the show has been distributed by Public Radio International. In March both sides announced they were parting ways after 17 years. The two sides could not come to an agreement on a new distribution deal which ends at the end of June.
Glass said, ?We?re excited and proud to be partners now with PRX. They've been a huge innovative force in public radio, inventing technologies and projects to get people on the air who?d have a much harder time without them. They?re mission-driven, they?re super-capable and apparently they?re pretty good with computers.? The show is heard weekly by 2.2 million people. Most weeks it?s also the number one podcast on iTunes, with over a million downloads per episode. It went on the air in 1995.
