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Colorado Public Radio joins Mountain West News Bureau

Current · Austin Fuller · last updated

Colorado Public Radio is teaming up with radio stations in seven states by joining the Mountain West News Bureau.

The collaboration started in 2018 with $475,000 in CPB support and received an additional $500,000 in 2024.

It has six managing partner stations: Boise State Public Radio in Idaho; KANW in Albuquerque, N.M.; KUNC in Greeley, Colo.; KUNR Public Radio in Reno, Nev.; Nevada Public Radio and Wyoming Public Media. NPR and nearly a dozen more stations are also affiliated with the partnership, according to a news release. CPR is an “associate partner.”

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