Talk about the show on http://www.bobedwards.info/

I’ve been spending a little time over the last month or so composing a letter to be sent to XMPR, commenting on their programming and the like. The idea was to make it a public letter, mailing it to them and posting it here, so the GM of the channel could comment publically, should he choose.

Part of the message dealt with an idea I had for a weekend show culled from the weekdaily, The Bob Edwards Show. My rationale for a show like this is, in part:

Many stations would snap it up (anything to return the voice of Mr. Edwards to their station), providing a secondary revenue stream to XMPR for the programming while promoting on a weekly basis the XM-exclusive week-daily show and the “XM Nation” itself (through standard production and underwriting credits), and keeping Mr. Edwards front-and-center in the public radio spotlight. This re-use of existing interviews will not dilute the exclusivity of The Bob Edwards Show (at least not nearly as much as that ill-advised arrangement with Audible) while helping to increase the subscriber and listener base. I’m confident at least one of your existing partners, PRI or APM, would be thrilled to distribute this repackaged Bob Edwards’ Weekend…and everybody wins, except maybe a few NPR executives.

So this morning, I read an article from the Santa Cruz Sentinel which includes an interview with Edwards where he says, in part:

That might change. We’re talking with Public Radio International with possibly coming up with a weekend version (of my XM program). I might be back on public radio stations and that would be wonderful.

Which only goes to show you…great minds think alike, and mine is usually way behind the other great minds.