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
Any outfit that has to beg its listeners for money is an organization that has to constantly please its listeners or it will dry up and go away. It shouldn't work when you think about it.
Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.
With radio, the listener absorbs everything.
Public radio has always been so powerless.
When Solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile.
It has a lot of historic value, a lot of sentimental value.
I met (Franklin) Roosevelt once on the back of a train,
I wake about 1 a.m. I'm in the office by 2 a.m. We're on the air at 5.
Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.
If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?
People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.
I was encouraged to read aloud in class and vocalize.
That's the problem with news interviews, you work your tail off to get prominent figures in the news on the radio, but once they've been on, the event passes, the urgency, the issues you talked about evaporate.
In college, I got interested in news because the world was coming apart. The civil rights movement, the antiwar movement, the women's right movement. That focused my radio ambitions toward news.