NPR’s Neal Conan is 11 years of hosting Talking about the nation Thanks to some influencing contributors to the offer along the way. After 36 years in NPR, Conan signs.
Neil Conan, host:
And so it is time to say goodbye. As you know, this, after 21 years, is the final broadcast of talking about the nation, and after 36 years, my last day in NPR.
Before I go, there are some people to thank. First, my lineage in this chair: John Hawkinbury, Ray Suarez, Juan Williams and many alternatives who allowed us to leave.
There were dozens of people on employees over the years, the people I heard after Tuesday’s messages, and the people who made this program happen. I can’t start telling them all, but I need to thank the crew who carried the episode with me in the past few months. Tinbete Ermyas, Libby Franklin, Monica Bushman, Laura Lee, AD QUIG, Jessica Reedy, PRISKA NEELY, our editor Sarah Handel, Join Outen, Senior Producer Scott Cameron, Chief Supervisor Carlain Watson. We do not go or outside the air without our techniques.
Once again, we cannot start telling them all, but on their behalf, we thanked the technical director Melissa Marquise. Of course, I cannot skip a political addict, Ken Rudin.
There were only two executive producers in my time in the show. So let me thank Laith Bishop, wherever it is, especially Soo Godwin. In this program and others, she worked and I for many years. More than anyone else can demand credit for our successes. I will miss her dearly.
I need to thank the presidents who decided to start this offer and keep it over more than two decades. I need to thank members stations, not only more than 400 who carried this program, but all, all of those stations that support NPR and allow us to borrow their outlets to speak with people all over the country.
And I need to thank you. We were told that more than 3.6 million of you listen every week. This puts talk about the nation at the top 10 talk shows in the country. The broadcasting currency is this number, the amount of eyes and ears that can be delivered to soap manufacturers and car companies. To be honest, we do a little on the public radio, as well.
But about talking about the nation in particular, listeners also have sounds. This program works better when we find ways to involve your stories about your jobs and children, and you fear and your success about what happened in drought, hurricane, in the fire, in the hospital, in the job and the school, in Iraq or Vietnam.
During all my time in NPR, I worked as a reporter, editor and producer. As I liked all these jobs, during the past 11 and a half years, this job was the best. It is an honor for the honor to talk to you every day.
I returned them: 600 weeks. Abandoning a vacation for a vacation, and throwing in all special coverage, let’s wander around 5000 hours. There is still a lot to talk about, but this should be enough.
Therefore, within a minute or so, I will return to where I started on the public radio. I will be one of you again, listener. Yes, caring for the listener, but the critical listener is also. I will cry, laugh and shout on the radio. We listeners have a vital function. It is our duty to bear the stations of the members and NPR responsibility.
So here, I create a special compressed with NPR and member stations. I will listen, yes, I will open my check notebook, but I need some services in return. Go and tell me the stories behind everything that happened in the world today. Explain why this happened, and how it affects our lives. Do it every day. Tell me what is important, and do not waste my time with stupid things.
bye bye. Sign out to talk about the nation and from NPR News, I Nil Conan, in Washington.
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