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WUNC Host Frank Stasio Announces Retirement

Longtime The State of Things Host Frank Stasio announced he is retiring on January 1, 2021.
Longtime The State of Things Host Frank Stasio announced he is retiring on January 1, 2021.
Longtime The State of Things Host Frank Stasio announced he is retiring on January 1, 2021.
Credit Ben McKeown / For WUNC
Longtime The State of Things Host Frank Stasio announced he is retiring on January 1, 2021.

Frank Stasio, host of The State of Things, is retiring on January 1, 2021. Frank has hosted the live, daily talk show since June 2006, and over the last 14 years, has covered a variety of important stories about North Carolina.

"I’m proud of what we built on The State Of Things," Stasio wrote in a letter to WUNC staff. "We made some powerfully good radio and, by most accounts, had a profound effect on our community. I’m grateful to all of you and our amazing listeners for helping to make this happen."

Host Frank Stasio shares his retirement announcement on air during 'The State of Things.'

Stasio continued, "As most of you know I’ve had a number of “careers” both in and out of broadcasting. Hosting The State of Things has been an illuminating and thrilling part of my journey. I want to continue that journey while I still have some energy and good health. The sudden rupture created by the pandemic makes this the perfect moment to follow the adventure in new directions."

WUNC President and General Manager Connie Walker added in a letter to listeners, "I am so sad to deliver this news but am so happy for Frank and grateful to him for all he has done for this station."

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Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's News Director.
Anita Rao is the host and creator of "Embodied," a live, weekly radio show and seasonal podcast about sex, relationships & health. She's also the managing editor of WUNC's on-demand content. She has traveled the country recording interviews for the Peabody Award-winning StoryCorps production department, founded and launched a podcast about millennial feminism in the South, and served as the managing editor and regular host of "The State of Things," North Carolina Public Radio's flagship daily, live talk show. Anita was born in a small coal-mining town in Northeast England but spent most of her life growing up in Iowa and has a fond affection for the Midwest.