Bob Edwards
Bob Edwards
Robert Alan "Bob" Edwardsis a Peabody Award-winning member of the National Radio Hall of Fame. He was the first broadcaster with a large national following to join the field of satellite radio. He gained fame as the first host of National Public Radio's flagship program, Morning Edition. Starting in 2004, Edwards then became the host of The Bob Edwards Show on Sirius XM Radio and Bob Edwards Weekend distributed by Public Radio International to more than 150 public radio stations...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth16 May 1947
CityLouisville, KY
CountryUnited States of America
Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.
I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.
With radio, the listener absorbs everything.
Public radio has always been so powerless.
I'm a very straight-laced, conservative news kind of guy.
At a tiny station in New Albany, Indiana, which is right across from the river from Louisville, Kentucky, where I grew up. The Louisville stations were loath to hire beginners, so I had to go across the river.
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
If you walk in and say that we want you to hire ex-felons ... the answer is probably 'no,' ... But when you get them here and they are seeing them face-to-face, they're seeing them as human beings. And that breaks it down, and some real positive things can happen.
I met (Franklin) Roosevelt once on the back of a train,
For one thing, you can get old, fat, bald and nobody knows and nobody cares. So there's great longevity in radio, more security there.
They want to give me a program, so I can continue to host and be heard every day instead of occasionally, as I would have been at NPR.
These voices came out of the box, as well as music and news and drama. You still had the soap operas on the radio in those days.
I was 3 in 1950. And I loved the radio.
It looks like the fire was obviously intentionally set.