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681: 157:, an AM news and talk station in Seattle. On his current show, Burbank has alluded to being unhappy with the early-morning hours necessary to produce a morning news show and has hinted at personality conflicts with NPR producers and executives. On the May 8, 2008 episode of the show, which featured pre-recorded birthday wishes for Burbank from various friends and family members, Burbank, in speaking about his time at the BPP, said "My name is mud at NPR New York." 114:). News headlines were read at approximately 10 and 40 minutes past the hour, 10 minutes later than the traditional top and bottom of the hour updates. The show also had an occasional segment called "Make Me Care" in which guests had 60 seconds to argue why a story or subject should matter to listeners. The tone was often informal compared to the more conventional content found on other NPR newsmagazines. 110:. Daily segments included "The Most" (a segment Stewart brought from her MSNBC show of the same name, featuring the most-read, -shared and -emailed stories from various online news sources) and "The Ramble" (a brief rundown of quirky news stories, read over a music loop from the song "In One Ear and Out the Other" by dance music trio 148:
originally co-hosted the program with Alison Stewart. On the November 13, 2007 broadcast, Burbank announced that he was planning on leaving the show in mid-December to be closer to his daughter in Seattle. Since January 2008, Burbank has hosted the nightly talk show
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correspondent for ABC News. The show's regular newscaster was Mark Garrison, but Korva Coleman often substituted from NPR's Washington bureau. The show's executive producer was Sharon Hoffman and the supervising senior producer was Matt Martinez.
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called the show "an expensive failure — the first-year budget was more than $ 2 million — and comes at a time when NPR is facing the same financial constraints as other news media thanks to higher costs and a downturn in underwriting."
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The show was meant to appeal to a younger, less-traditional NPR audience and succeeded in attracting online listeners, an early example of NPR programming to do so. Recurring segments include a Monday morning sports wrap-up featuring
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that "their experimental weekday morning program, designed to draw a younger audience to public radio and capture listeners who had moved online, is being canceled." The last broadcast of the program was on July 25, 2008.
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as of July 25, 2008. Stewart, who had planned to return from maternity leave, resumed her role on July 21 and hosted the final week of broadcasts.
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station NPR Now repeated the show (on tape unless breaking news necessitated live updates) from 10 a.m. to noon Eastern, 7 to 9 a.m. Pacific.
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in Manhattan, which NPR's New York studios overlook. While the Bryant Park Project (a.k.a. "the BPP") was originally a
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Roanoke, Virginia; Lynchburg, Virginia; Blacksburg, Virginia; Charlottesville, Virginia
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was distributed online via podcast and streaming audio, and could be heard on
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that ran for 10 months in 2007 and 2008. The show's name was derived from
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and on select NPR stations. The show also had a frequently updated blog.
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Bryant Park Project episodes on the iTunes Music Store
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and MSNBC executive), political news discussions with
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