'The voice we woke up to': Bob Edwards, longtime 'Morning Edition' host, dies at 76

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Source: NPR

February 12, 2024 10:45 AM ET


Bob Edwards, the veteran broadcaster and longtime host of Morning Edition who left an indelible mark on NPR's sound, has died. He was 76 years old.

NPR's Susan Stamberg says Edwards' voice became part of the morning routine for millions of Americans.

"He was Bob Edwards of Morning Edition for 24 1/2 years, and his was the voice we woke up to," she says.

When listeners first heard that voice, they might have imagined a figure of great authority, an avuncular newsman dressed in a pinstripe suit. But that was not Bob Edwards.

Read more: https://www.npr.org/2024/02/12/165681524/bob-edwards-dead-npr-host

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I used to listen to NPR years ago on Philly's 90.9 WHYY, and that included a couple morning shows. It has changed quite bit after the GOP to their sledge hammers to the concept of "public radio" and "public television" and attempted to make it just another RW mouthpiece.

R.I.P.

[Glorfindel]

1. I'm very sorry to hear it.

Mr. Edwards was definitely the voice I woke up to for many years. No one has ever really taken his place.

[mitch96]

2. Sad day when I heard about his passing...He was my morning radio buddy for many many years..nt

[2naSalit]

3. RIP...

[japple]

4. Bob Edwards woke me up most mornings of my working life. I loved his voice, his

sense of humor, his delivery, and his dedication to his work. I was furious when he was replaced by 2 people that I never warmed up to and I stopped listening to NPR for awhile. After I moved to GA, I started listening again, mainly for the local programs, esp. those in Chattanooga and Atlanta which have only gotten better over the years. I don't listen to the news every morning, but I cut the cord with TV, too, so my main sources of news these days are online. I start each day with DU!

[mahina]

6. Me too. When he went off the air I stopped listening to NPR after I don't know how long, many years. I'm back

but occasionally. I too never warmed to the new model but Hawaii Public Radio is better now. (Not than when Bob was on mornings, but afterwards.)

I can't lose the institution. We are losing our newspaper, also imperfect, and we need NPR.

Peace to Bob on such a beautiful life and gift to us all of his time and skills.

[mahina]

5. Aloha e Bob.

[GiqueCee]

7. I met Bob...

... shortly after the kerfuffle with the misguided bean counters of NPR, at aVPR shindig in Woodstock, Vermont. He autographed my copy of his Edward R. Murrow book for me. I didn't realize we are – or were – the same age. I really liked him.

R.I.P., buddy.

[marybourg]

8. My 45 years of listening devotedly to NPR ended when

they couldn’t resist trying to normalize tRump. For 3 1/2 years they kept at it. Finally, after the lies had piled up high as the ceiling, they started to acknowledge what he was. Too late for me. The firing of Bob Edwards was the first shot across the bow of my listenership. The treatment of tRump’s malevolence was the last. My house been quiet from morning to night for 5 years now.

[ms liberty]

9. RIP

[area51]

10. RIP

[pansypoo53219]

11. we had no teevee at the family cottage or phone. i grew up listening to maquette, mi npr + houghton in WI.

tho, had to find WHAD'ya know while in VA.
i will miss him.

[Submariner]

12. I believe Tucker Carlson's dad

Set the stage for liberal Bob’s dismissal when he ran the Corp of Public Broadcasting when public funding was gutted by Gingrich.

Bob Edward’s was sent packing in 2004, and NPR replaced him with the Tucker Carlson show “Unfiltered”.

RIP Bob.

[jaxexpat]

14. Thanks to your post, I feel like I really need a hot shower.

It inspired me to do a wiki on Tucker's dad. What a singularly awful creative of unfortunate consequence for the best that is America. It is unspeakable misfortune that a scum like Dick Carlson had any impact on the work of Bob Edwards, a giant among the voices of western culture.
I didn't know, being so consumed by making a living, many of the names behind "conservatism's" national dismantlement of the nation during the 80's and 90's, but his short bio on Wiki connected so many dots and filled in so many blanks. He was/is a lowlife grifting opportunistic lowlife and great friend to the icons of destiny's wrong side. An apple's proximity to the parent tree is a "no shit" fact, especially, it seems, when it refers to the rotten ones.

[rurallib]

13. when Edwards was dong an interview, you could almost see the interviewee

squirming in their chair awaiting the next question.

Edwards and I drove to work together for many years

[electric_blue68]

15. Aw. RIP Mr Bob Edwards.