Chicago Public Media

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Chicago Public Media

Abbreviation	CPM
Type	non-profit
Tax ID no.	36-3687394
CEO	Melissa Bell[1]
Subsidiaries	WBEZ WBEW WRTE Chicago Sun-Times This American Life Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me!
Website	www.wbez.org
Formerly called	The WBEZ Alliance

Chicago Public Media (CPM) is a not-for-profit radio and print media company. CPM operates as the primary National Public Radio member organization for Chicago. It owns three non-commercial educational FM broadcast stations and one FM translator. In addition to local news and information productions, it produces the programs Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! for NPR stations, and This American Life which is distributed by PRX to other radio stations. On January 30, 2022, Chicago Public Media acquired the Chicago Sun-Times daily newspaper.^[2]