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Car Talk is a Peabody Award-winning radio talk show broadcast weekly on NPR stations and elsewhere.

Its subjects were automobiles and automotive repair, discussed often in a humorous way.

It was hosted by brothers Tom and Ray Magliozzi, known also as "Click and Clack, the Tappet Brothers".

The show was produced from 1977 to October 2012, when the Magliozzi brothers retired.

Edited reruns (which are introduced as The Best of Car Talk) continue to be available for weekly airing on NPR affiliates, although in July 2016 the network announced its intention to end the broadcasts after September 30, 2017.

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.

WBUR-FM (90.9 FM) is a public radio station located in Boston, Massachusetts, owned by Boston University.

WBUR is the largest of three NPR member stations in Boston, along with WGBH and WUMB-FM.

WBUR produces several nationally distributed programs, including Car Talk, On Point, Only A Game, Here and Now and Open Source, and previously produced The Connection (which was canceled on August 5, 2005).

RadioBoston, launched in 2007, is WBUR's only purely local show.

WBUR's positioning statement is "Boston's NPR News Station.".

Only a Game is a weekly sports program distributed by National Public Radio and hosted by Bill Littlefield.

The show is produced at WBUR in Boston and airs on 259 affiliate stations around the country every Saturday.

The program is one hour long.

On Point is a two-hour call-in radio show hosted by Tom Ashbrook, a former The Boston Globe foreign editor and reporter, author and Internet entrepreneur.

It is produced by WBUR in Boston and syndicated by National Public Radio.

The show addresses news issues, as well as arts and culture, health, technology, environmental, and business topics.