[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 5 (Monday, January 31, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: January 31, 1994]
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                         TRIBUTE TO MARKETPLACE

 Mrs. FEINSTEIN. Mr. President, I would like to call your 
attention to ``Marketplace,'' a distinctive news magazine series 
produced by the University of Southern California Radio and distributed 
nationally by American Public Radio and throughout the world by the 
Armed Forces Network.
  ``Marketplace'' will celebrate its fifth anniversary in January. The 
series, hosted each afternoon by David Brancaccio, and each morning by 
Penny Dennis, now has a weekly cumulative audience of more than 2 
million, and is heard on 207 radio stations in the United States. It is 
the Nation's only daily national news program produced on the west 
coast and, as such, brings a Pacific rim view to the Nation's media.
  ``Marketplace'' has won acclaim from many critics, including the 
prestigious Columbia Journalism Review, and the Christian Science 
Monitor complimented the program as the ``Radio Business Report Which 
Demystifies Economics.''
  The series was created by Jim Russell, executive producer and one of 
the public broadcasting's most experienced executives. Russell 
assembled a staff headed by senior producers, John Barth and J.J. Yore, 
and foreign editor, George Lewinski, as well as correspondents in 
bureaus around the world. This team continues to produce the quality 
program, heard Monday through Friday in the afternoon and early evening 
hours, and every weekday morning.
  I am proud this program of excellence is produced in California, is 
heard throughout the Nation and the world, and that one of our 
country's public-spirited universities, the University of Southern 
California, has offered support during these critical formative years.
  ``Marketplace'' receives generous corporate underwriting support from 
General Electric and also from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting 
and the American Public Radio Fund.

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