National Public Radio’s beloved deposed elder statesman, Bob Edwards, has a new assignment. Edwards will leave NPR to compete against his old radio show, “Morning Edition” on XM Satellite Radio starting in October.
Edwards tells the Post the he will “be a pioneer again,” much like when he joined NPR in 1974 when the radio network was just three years old.
Edwards has always seemed to be at the forefront of D.C. commercial development. For years, he smoked his cigarettes during station breaks outside NPR’s headquarters on Mount Vernon Square, long before the area was a magnet for new downtown redevelopment. His new post at XM is out at the corner of New York and Florida avenues in Northeast D.C., in, well, the soon-to-be-developed but still out-of-the-way NewYoFla neighborhood.
