It's been five-years since Bob Edwards has been hosting The Bob Edwards Show on XM Public Radio (and incidentally, Orbitcast is nearing its 5-year anniversary blogging about satellite radio... more on that soon).
Since coming to satellite radio in October 2004, Edwards has received many journalism accolades including the ASCAP Deems Taylor Radio Broadcast Award for Overall Excellence in Music Coverage, three Gabriel Awards, the National Press Club's Robert L. Kozic Award for Environmental Reporting, and the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award.
Guests have run the gamut from Presidents to Nobel Prize winners, including Forest Whitaker; Ralph Nader, Mike Wallace, Bonnie Raitt; basketball coach Phil Jackson; President Jimmy Carter; actor Adrien Brody; singer Jennifer Hudson; and director Ron Howard.
The Bob Edwards Show features documentaries and interviews with newsmakers, political figures, journalists, writers, scholars, entertainers and anyone else with something interesting to say. The original morning program airs weekdays on XM Public Radio (XM channel 133 and Sirius channel 196 as part of "the Best of XM" package), at 8am ET, with encore presentations airing at 9am, 10am, 4pm, 8pm, 9pm and 10pm (all times ET).
Bob Edwards Weekend features highlights from throughout the week from the show in a 2-hour format and airs on Saturdays starting at 8am ET and Sundays starting at 11am ET.
Congrats Bob!
Guests have run the gamut from Presidents to Nobel Prize winners, including Forest Whitaker; Ralph Nader, Mike Wallace, Bonnie Raitt; basketball coach Phil Jackson; President Jimmy Carter; actor Adrien Brody; singer Jennifer Hudson; and director Ron Howard.
The Bob Edwards Show features documentaries and interviews with newsmakers, political figures, journalists, writers, scholars, entertainers and anyone else with something interesting to say. The original morning program airs weekdays on XM Public Radio (XM channel 133 and Sirius channel 196 as part of "the Best of XM" package), at 8am ET, with encore presentations airing at 9am, 10am, 4pm, 8pm, 9pm and 10pm (all times ET).
Bob Edwards Weekend features highlights from throughout the week from the show in a 2-hour format and airs on Saturdays starting at 8am ET and Sundays starting at 11am ET.
Congrats Bob!
Say what you will about NPR(We've got a winner in WNCW/88.7 (here in this corner of NW NC & NE SC--excellent Celtic,Bluegrass & Blues programs that would give SiriusFM a run for its money) but Bob Edwards is a class act any way you slice it.
Keep doing what you do so well Bob.
Neither Bob or Mel appear to be thrilled to be standing next to each other BTW............
Since Bob's show is not commercial radio oriented, Mel probably dosen't get it...............He's probably thinking, "Quality programming that requires effort and pride in what you do and without commercials at that....what a fucking waste of advertising potential. I can't wait till I can sell advertising on SiriusFM across the board.".
I will give him one thing, he would try to sell snow to an Eskimo and would probably get a few poor schmucks to buy some!!!
Mel looks like he's watching a Horror Movie while standing in front of a urinal. Either that, or somebody just told him that he's going to have to start advertising.
Yep, cause that "word of mouth" method of advertising ain't working worth a damn for SiriusFM!!!
Amen, brother! I used to hype satellite radio like a whore at an Elks Club connvention; now I just keep my mouth shut. I guess I simply gave up, ran out of energy, or got tired of people looking at me like an alien, saying "I can't afford to pay for it" or "Radio should be free" or "I'm happy with AM/FM" or "I thought they went bankrupt."About 95% of the people in this country know NOTHING about Sirius/XM, and they never will if these idiots don't get off their fat, lazy asses and start marketing the freaking thing. I keep thinking.... that if they can afford to launch and pay for these satellites, then how in hell can't they afford to advertise the service? It is pure INSANITY. I really think that the entitre management of Sirius/XM needs their heads examined. There is something very disturbing going on with this outfit!
Congrats Bob!
You too went from millions of listeners to siriusxm and in 5 years there you have about 5 listeners.... Oh whats that? it's 4 now? Oh another subscriber just followed what thousands have already done and dumped siriusxm for the crap it truly has become.
FO Melvin!
Great picture of Satan, er, Mel - the guy that ruined XM for me when they "merged" Sirius with it. Nice he never bothered mentioning that Opie and Anthony started THE SAME DAY as Bob Edwards - but they are your XM castoffs, right Mel?
I used to have XM strictly for the music. Since the playlists are so damn limited now (can we play ANYTHING that WASN'T in the top 20 on 80's on 8?) on most channels, I keep it for 3 reasons:
1 - Opie and Anthony
2 - Major League Baseball, as I have no local station for my in state MLB team
3 - News and talk when I travel
I'm sure, unfortunately, that the NAB having all the broadcast media affiliation they do - terrestrial radio and broadcast television alike - more than likely has something to do with the lack of advertising for Sirius XM.
I'm willing to bet that the rates they are being offered for commercial time slots are OUTRAGEOUS.
These rates are very much negotiated, and I'm willing that the broadcasters aren't willing to negotiate with Sirius XM. This is probably part of it. This is only a subset of the anti-competitive shenanigans that have been allowed to rule the media for years.
I see newspaper advertisements from time to time. I don't read the newspaper that often though, so that can definitely hurt them.
Where's O&A's recognition? They started on XM the same day as Edwards, and their show is four times longer. The workhorses of Sirius-XM are getting the shaft by the suits again.
Who's O&A?