This American Life is a weekly public radio show broadcast on more than 500 stations to about 1.8 million listeners. It is produced by  Chicago Public Media, distributed by  Public Radio International, and has won all of the major broadcasting awards. It is also often the most popular  podcast in the country, with around 700,000 people downloading each week. From 2006-2008, we produced a television version of  This American Life on the Showtime network, which won three Emmys. We're also the co-producers, with NPR News, of the economics podcast and blog  Planet Money.