Jobs Underwriters Archives About Marketplace Marketplace is the fastest-growing national program in public radio. Since its debut in January of 1989, the weekly audience has quintupled, and in 1999, listenership neared the four million mark at 3.7 million. Marketplace delivers a larger weekly audience than the leading cable TV business shows. Second only to PBS's Nightly Business Report, Marketplace draws more listeners each week than the business shows produced by CNN, CNBC or Bloomberg including CNN's Moneyline and CNBC's Market Wrap.
Research shows that our audience is among the most loyal listeners in public radio.
Unlike many public broadcasting programs, Marketplace shows strong listenership among young adults. Marketplace is currently broadcast by more than 290 public radio stations nationwide, throughout the world by the American Forces Radio Network and in Europe on the public radio satellite channel, World Radio Network.