The area has the most stations and one of the largest audiences but lacks original programs. That's changing, though.
Most big cities have only one or two.
Yet public radio programmers from around the nation encountered at the recent Public Radio Conference in Seattle were hesitant to recognize Los Angeles as a mecca of the medium, primarily because so few national programs of any clout originate here. No way is it a bigger market than New York. That's why MPR wanted to come in. You want more people to hear what you do. If Los Angeles has not been a major producer of national programming for public radio, that seems to be about to change.