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NPR Icon Bob Boilen Embraces Low-Power FM with Takoma Radio Role

Bob Boilen, the creator of NPR’s Tiny Desk Concerts and All Songs Considered, has been appointed as the new program director of Takoma Radio.

Boilen, who also served as the director of All Things Considered for 18 years, hosts “My Tiny Morning Show,” a weekly one-hour program on Wednesdays at 8 a.m. featuring emerging, independent, and groundbreaking artists. Additionally, Takoma Radio provides a non-commercial platform for individuals to present music and stories underrepresented in mainstream media, operating solely through financial support from listeners and small local businesses, including Source of the Spring. Boilen, who grew up in New York and moved to Washington, D.C., as a teenager, is a musician, formerly of Tiny Desk Unit, the first band to play the 9:30 Club when it opened to the public in 1980.

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