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,
It looks like the fire was obviously intentionally set.
I bet it has been 15 years. Those times are gone.
You can't find a decent place to live around here, and finding work isn't easy either.
I can do whatever I want to. I'm completely independent. NPR over the years began taking itself enormously seriously -- as it should. In the end I was so micromanaged that they were telling me how to pronounce syllables of words.
I was 3 in 1950. And I loved the radio.
With consolidation you have fewer and fewer voices, ... I always thought that the strength of radio was its diversity. It has always had so many voices. When I was a kid, the maximum amount of radio stations that you were allowed to have in your ownership group was five. Now you have one company that owns 1,250 stations. That's just wrong.
We all know what to expect before the season starts. As parents, we make a commitment also. The family gets involved.