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
The radio was my pal. I was just crazy about it.
With radio, the listener absorbs everything.
Public radio has always been so powerless.
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.
This is clearly just pettiness directed at me, ... It baffles me that they are going to these petty extremes, especially when I am still an outspoken supporter of public radio and NPR specifically.
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'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.
The difference between a friend and an acquaintance is that a friend helps; an acquaintance merely advises....
It's also a more personal medium. It seems to go directly to one's brain. There are no pictures to distract.
Meanwhile, the meek are a long time inheriting the earth.
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.
The pictures are created by the listener, with a little help from the broadcaster. The pictures are perfect. If you're showing pictures, different things in that picture can distract from the spoken word.
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.