Barack Obama as a candidate for re-election. Oakes: Candidates for Governor and US Senate.
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Over the years at the mic, who are a few of your most memorable interviews? Most mornings I press the snooze button for 5 extra minutes. What time do you wake up to get into the station to host WBUR’s Morning Edition? My first interview with a President was Jimmy Carter in March 1977 when he came to Clinton, Massachusetts to hold a town hall after he was elected. Oakes: The first presidential election I covered was as a college journalist in 1976. Which was the very first presidential election that you covered as a journalist? Inside WBUR caught up with him before his event today at WBUR CitySpace - taking a look at the year ahead in the station's coverage of the presidential election - for a quick peek into the life of Bob Oakes! So much so that when Bob took some time off about a year ago, even the front page of the internet started worrying. One of the most well-known and respected journalists in New England, Bob Oakes is who Boston wakes up to every morning. Prior to WBUR, he had spent a decade at Boston's then all-news station WEEI and covered national issues for the CBS Radio Network. By 1982, WBUR had established its identity as a news station, with NPR's Morning Edition and All Things Considered airing weekdays along with local news programming produced by a staff of young reporters.Ī decade later, in 1992, Bob Oakes became the host of WBUR's Morning Edition.
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In 1980, WBUR began to receive programming from NPR via satellite. The host of WBUR's Morning Edition, Bob Oakes. Today, nearly 13.1 million listeners tune in to Morning Edition weekly and 829 member stations carry the show - WBUR being one of the earliest member stations in the nation to broadcast it. Back in 1979, Bob Edwards was the first host of the show, and the first story was filed by Robert Siegel about the former Rhodesia. 5, is the 40th anniversary of NPR's Morning Edition.
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