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The Buffalo Niagara Region is a part of the Great Lakes region of North America, comprising much of Western New York in the United States and the Niagara Peninsula in Ontario, Canada.

The Regional Institute of the University at Buffalo has defined the region as including the eight westernmost counties in New York, as well as the Regional Municipality of Niagara and Hamilton in Ontario, although this term is rarely used on the Canadian side of the border.

The total population of the region is 2,493,869.

National Public Radio (usually shortened to NPR, stylized as npr) is an American privately and publicly funded non-profit membership media organization that serves as a national syndicator to a network of 900 public radio stations in the United States.

WBFO is the NPR member station for Buffalo, New York, carrying an almost entirely public news/talk format.

It broadcasts from studios in the Lower Terrace section of downtown Buffalo which it shares with WNED-TV and WNED-FM.

Previously, it broadcast from the South campus (a.k.a.

Main Street Campus) of the University at Buffalo.

It currently leases an as-yet unutilized satellite studio in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

WBFO runs two permanent satellite stations: WUBJ (FM 88.1) in Jamestown, New York, and WOLN (FM 91.3) in Olean, New York.

Jazz is a music genre that originated amongst African Americans in New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in Blues and Ragtime.

Since the 1920s jazz age, jazz has become recognized as a major form of musical expression.

It then emerged in the form of independent traditional and popular musical styles, all linked by the common bonds of African American and European American musical parentage with a performance orientation.

Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation.

Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime, as well as European military band music.

Although the foundation of jazz is deeply rooted within the Black experience of the United States, different cultures have contributed their own experience and styles to the art form as well.

Intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as "one of America's original art forms".

All-news radio is a radio format devoted entirely to the discussion and broadcast of news.

All-news radio is available in both local and syndicated forms, and is carried on both major US satellite radio networks.

All-news stations can run the gamut from simulcasting an all-news television station like CNN, to a "rip and read" headline service, to stations that include live coverage of news events and long-form public affairs programming.