radio markets and a majority of the top fifty. Now in its 34th year of national syndication, a one hour program airs weekly on over 200 NPR affiliate stations, including three of the top five U.S. Hosted by Hill and original co-producer Anna Turner, within three years the program signed its 200th station and became the most successful new music program in public radio history, as well as the most widely syndicated program of 'spacemusic' - a tastemaker for the genre. In January 1983, after 10 years evolution as a local program, Hearts of Space began national syndication to 35 non-commercial public radio stations via the NPR satellite system. Over the intervening quarter century, Hearts of Space evolved into a multifaceted music and broadcast producer encompassing radio syndication, a record company, and an Internet music service. What began purely as a labor of love eventually became the most popular contemporary music program on public radio. Beginning in 1973, Hill hosted a weekly late-night radio program on KPFA-FM in the San Francisco Bay area.
The show has run on well over 400 stations in 34 years of national distribution and is still building extraordinarily loyal, long-term audiences, who commonly use addiction metaphors to describe their love for the music.Hearts of Space grew out of former architect Stephen Hill's fascination with space-creating, ambient and contemplative music.
Produced and hosted by STEPHEN HILL with Associate Producer STEVE DAVIS, it launched nationally in January 1983 after ten years as a Bay Area late night program on KPFA-FM in Berkeley. Hearts of Space is one of the longest-running and most popular music series on public radio. An uninterrupted hour of Ambient, Space, and Contemplative music from around the world and across the centuries.
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