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
We're going to have a lot of money against us. But we'll see how people respond and where they want the town to go.
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.
I go home by noon, and I'm in bed by 6 p.m. I get up at 1 and do it again.
I used to listen to the soap operas with my grandmother.
I've never been able to predict the future of anything.
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.
Nobody cares about your wardrobe, what your tie looks like, or even if you're wearing one, and I don't.
One trouble with being efficient is that it makes everybody hate you so.
People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.
If blue collar jobs are leaving and white collar jobs are outsourced what color collar jobs are left?
Soon it will be a sin of parents to have a child that carries the heavy burden of genetic disease. We are entering a world where we have to consider the quality of our children.
Between 2 and 5 I'm reading in to find out what's been going on while I've been asleep.
With radio, the listener absorbs everything.
Public radio has always been so powerless.