The show ran years ago on Boston’s WGBH or WBUR. One time they had a fundraising drive on WGBH and they said it was one of their most popular programs...then it was abruply cancelled; cost cited aa a factor.
WGBH would only run one hour, at one point, tape delayed (to Sun 6 pm I think) and they ran out of time during the quiz —
“we’ll finish this in the next hour”. The jazz DJ on WGBH
came on and quipped, “I guess we’ll never know (if contestant won)...”
I used to listen to Prairie Home Companion, roughly once a year, on our annual trip to visit relatives at Christmas. While driving through Nebraska and Wyoming, it was on about the only radio station on the dial. It didn't hurt that I grew up just a few miles from what is now called "Woebegone Trail".
What struck me most on this annual pilgrimage was the LACK of originality in the program. Often, many of the skits were repetitions from the previous year. A notable one was the song "We're all Republicans, now". You can contrast this with Rush, who puts on a daily three hour show (compared with PHC's one hour weekly one), and rarely repeats anything once it drops from the news.