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Public radio's new morning show set to go

CrankyYankee said:
This as yet unnamed program, a joint effort of Public Radio International, WNYC, BBC, The New York Times, and WGBH, will be hosted by Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist John Hockenberry and cohosted by Court TV and former CNN correspondent Adaora Udoji.

http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2007/10/11/public_radios_new_morning_show_set_to_go/
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The big question here is how many NPR affiliates will dump Morning Edition in favor of this new program?

One suggestion is maybe some stations could tape-delay this show and air it after ME ends at 10:00 am.
 
"...One suggestion is maybe some stations could tape-delay this show and air it after ME ends at 10:00 am."

Or run it on the HD-2 where five or six people will hear it.
 
Keep in mind that ME is only a two hour show. Many stations just repeat it to fill a four hour slot (it feeds from 6-8AM ET). West Coast stations often tend to repeat it three or more times. Thing is, ME is a phenomenally successful show, and I would imagine many stations are a bit afraid of rocking the boat by making a radical change.

NPR does have a new morning show, The Bryant Park Project. It seems to be an hour long, and is a bit more energetic and free-wheeling than the somewhat stuffy ME. A fairly decent offering, considering it just started. Perhaps this would be a good addition for stations that are Morning Editioned-out, to take the place of some of the endless replays. This could be what the new PRI show is aiming for.
 
Are any stations clearing "Bryant Park" (named for a small open space with bushes behind the New York Public Library, which was a long-time favorite of drug dealers and their customers)? I haven't heard of any. I've listened a little online and I was not - repeat not - impressed: Dumbed down slacker news delivered by people who use "like" as every form of speech in most of their sentences.
 
KXOT in Tacoma which is a sister station of KUOW and KCPW in Salt Lake City which is a sister station of KPCW are the only stations carrying Bryant Park on an over the air signal. A few stations are running it on HD and online streams.

Luke Burbank is leaving the show to move back to Seattle to be closer to his daughter. It seems odd that he would spend all this time doing pilots and then leave right as the show actually begins broadcasting.

I haven't to listented to it since the pilots and I found it very hit and miss. Sometimes, it was interesting and humorous but they did go too sophmoric. It definitely needs work but I'm still not sure where its audience will come from besides podcasts.
 
Mark_Giardina said:
CrankyYankee said:
This as yet unnamed program, a joint effort of Public Radio International, WNYC, BBC, The New York Times, and WGBH, will be hosted by Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist John Hockenberry and cohosted by Court TV and former CNN correspondent Adaora Udoji.

http://www.boston.com/ae/tv/articles/2007/10/11/public_radios_new_morning_show_set_to_go/
Click to expand...

The big question here is how many NPR affiliates will dump Morning Edition in favor of this new program?

One suggestion is maybe some stations could tape-delay this show and air it after ME ends at 10:00 am.
Click to expand...

There are public radio stations that overlap. Plenty in New England around Boston (WGBH homebase). Might be an option to get a differnt audience in. PRI (formerly MPR) has done well with its soft/cultural weekend offerings. NPR may not be quite as strong in this area- as evidenced by Bryant Park.
 
Now public radio has three national morning shows fighting for clearances (plus Marketwatch, the BBC and Bob Edwards' Show on satellite in the mix). In markets with one dominant public radio station they are probably going with the tent pole format; news in drive-time and music at other times there is no place for another morning news show. In markets (like Boston and others) with multiple stations, the big competition is the morning shows stations already are doing. The "other" public radio stations in the market (the ones that don't carry Morning Edition) almost all do music-driven morning shows and a music format the rest of the day. They probably have loyal audiences for those shows. So why would public radio music stations (Classical, Fine Arts, Jazz, Alternative or Acoustic/Folk) want to break format for some untested and untried news show?
 
If the new show is more serious and highbrow and has less of the fluff that has crept into ME, I can see the rationale for the new show. Many NPR listeners aren't happy with the fact that NPR news mags now occasionally report on celebrity gossip and will waste valuable airtime with crap like the godawful "sound clips" segments. I welcome anyone putting pressure on NPR to do better. NPR's presidential campaign coverage has been excellent, generally, but still stumbles occasionally with bad segments (I recall a "people who like Huckabee because Chuck Norris does" segment a few weeks ago.)
 
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