KCRW & NPR Present 'Planet Money -- Live!' at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica April...

KCRW & NPR Present 'Planet Money -- Live!' at the Broad Stage in Santa Monica
April 19, 2009

STAGE SHOW SOLD OUT IN 4 HOURS -- LIVE BROADCAST AND VIDEO WEBCAST AVAILABLE

SANTA MONICA, Calif., April 15 /PRNewswire/ -- On Sunday, April 19th, 2009
from 6 to 7 p.m.PST, NPR and 89.9FM KCRW-Santa Monica (www.KCRW.com) present
PLANET MONEY -- LIVE!, a special live broadcast and live streaming video
webcast. Sponsorship of PLANET MONEY LIVE! comes from Entrepreneurs'
Organization, a non-profit group made up of some 7,000 businesses worldwide.
http://www.eo-la.org

A collaborative project of NPR and This American Life, Peabody and
Columbia-DuPont Award-winning Planet Money producersAdam Davidson and Alex
Blumberg will appear onstage at The Eli and Edythe Broad Stage in Santa
Monicato trace the current collapse of the global economy.

Tickets to this live event sold out in four hours, but audiences will be able
to hear the broadcast and watch the video webcast in real time. The webcast
will also be available later on-demand at www.KCRW.com.

The idea for Planet Money came out of NPR's collaboration with This American
Life (May 2008) on the award-winning hour-long radio documentary, The Giant
Pool of Money http://www.thislife.org/radio_episode.aspx?episode=355, which
recently received broadcasting's most prestigious honors -- The
Columbia-DuPont and the Peabody Awards. A shorter companion piece ran on NPR's
All Things Considered.
(http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90327686)

Davidson and Blumberg prove that it's possible to report on mortgage-backed
securities, the collapse of the banking system, and other painfully complex
issues in a way that contains humor, good personal narratives, and the other
building blocks of strong storytelling -- all without being boring. Their
collaboration was the most popular episode ever on This American Life.

Time Magazine's Swampland Blog described "The Giant Pool of Money" as
"riveting," and NYU Journalism Professor Jay Rosen lauded the piece as "the
best work of explanatory journalism I have ever heard."

Planet Moneyhttp://www.npr.org/blogs/money/ offers a blog about the nation's
evolving economic crisis updated throughout the day, often breaking news in
the process; editors and reporters also file a daily podcast at the close of
each business day. The podcast frequently tops the iTunes "Most Popular" list
of new podcast subscriptions and the blog has become one of NPR's most visited
online features.

Planet Money is run by NPR's Global Economic Unit, led by Adam Davidson, NPR's
international business and economic correspondent, and Alex Blumberg, a
producer with Chicago Public Radio's This American Life.

Proceeds from the ticket sales benefit KCRW programming.

CALENDAR LISTING:

Who: NPR and 89.9FM KCRW Santa Monica (www.KCRW.com)

What: Planet Money -- Live! stage presentation, live broadcast and live
streaming video webcast (available for later on-demand viewing)

Tickets: SOLD OUT -- extremely limited number of press seats available

When:Sunday, April 19th, 2009; 5 to 7 p.m.
Doors open at 5 p.m. for no-host reception with show hosts
Live program from 6 to 7 p.m.; no late seating

Where: Eli and Edythe Broad Stage
1310 11th Street
Santa Monica, CA 90401

Other info: Live streaming, later on-demand www.KCRW.com

KCRW-FM, licensed to Santa Monica College, is National Public Radio's flagship
station for Southern California. The station serves Los Angeles, Orange,
Ventura Counties, as well as parts of San Diego, San Bernardino, Kern, and
Santa Barbara Counties and the greater Palm Springs area. Check here for our
coverage area: http://www.kcrw.com/about/coverage-map.

Every week, local listeners tune in to hear the station's eclectic and
innovative non-commercial program schedule on air. KCRW.com streams more than
1.5 million hours online every month, and listeners download about 1 million
audio and video podcasts per month.

SOURCE KCRW-FM

Sarah Spitz of KCRW-FM, +1-310-314-4627, Sarah.spitz@kcrw.org