She’ll be replacing host Matt McCleskey starting October 1.
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The indie-rock greats will play songs old and new in between news segments on Morning Edition.
Regular D.C. area Morning Edition listeners will soon have a new local host at WAMU. Bill Redlin, who has hosted the program for WAMU since 1985, announced today on the air (through a scratchy voice that sounded like he has a cold) that he will move to middays, while regular substitute Matt McCleskey will take the reins of the morning slot. According to a release from WAMU, Redlin will also assume a mentorship role for…
(Editor’s Note: This is the third in an ongoing series on the D.C. area’s overlooked museums. Here are Parts I and II.) Nothing to do this weekend? Stuck in town while your friends go to the beach? Make them wish they had been around and gone with you to one of these sleeper museums. You’re sure to have a story to tell. And if you don’t, make one up. Kick Memorial Day Weekend off right…
Dan Rather leaves the anchor chair at CBS Evening News tonight after 24 years. His final broadcast is at 7 p.m. and while DCist hasn’t watched a network news broadcast in, say, years, we feel bad for the guy that’s apparently been brought down by bloggers. Will this DCist miss him? Um, probably not. Of all the high profile media anchors that have been jumping ship recently, we have to say it was Bob Edward’s…
(Interview done by DCist contributor Amadie Hart) Many fans mourned when the venerable Bob Edwards was demoted from his long-running National Public Radio gig as the host of “Morning Edition.” But never fear — the voice that drew so many listeners has been hosting his own show on XM radio since October. He sits down with DCist to talk about his satellite radio experience and his book, “Edward R. Murrow and the Birth of Broadcast…
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…