Nile Conan from NPR reflects on his 11 -year Talk about the nation And thanks to some influential participants in the show along this path. After 36 years in NPR, Conan signs.
Neil Conan, owner:
And now it's time to say goodbye. As you probably know, after 21 years is the last broadcast of conversations about the nation, and after 36 years my last day in the NPR.
Before I leave, there are some people to thank. Firstly, my predecessors in this chair: John Hokenberry, Ray Suarez, Juan Williams and many substitutes that allowed us to leave.
Over the years, there were dozens of people in the staff, people whose names you heard after letters on Tuesdays, people who made this program. I can’t start listing them all, but I need to thank the team that kept the ring with me in the last few difficult months. Tinbete Ermyas, Libby Franklin, Monica Bushman, Laura Lee, Ad quig, Jessica Reedy, Priska Nely, our editor Sarah Handel, director Gwen Outen, senior producer Scott Cameron, senior director Karllin Watson. And we do not turn on or do not end without our technical specialists.
Again, we cannot start listing them all, but on their behalf, our gratitude to the technical director Melissa Marquise. And, of course, I cannot miss the political drug addict Ken Rudin.
In my time there were only two executive producers. So, let me thank Leita Bishop, wherever she is, and especially in Sue Goodwin. In this program and others, others and I worked together for many, many years. She, more than any other person, can demand a loan for our successes. I will miss her.
I need to thank the bosses who decided to start this show and support it for more than two decades. I need to thank the stations of the participants, and not only 400 that carried this program, but all of them, all those stations that together support NPR and allow us to lend our outlets in order to talk to people throughout the country.
And I need to thank you. We are told that more than 3.6 million of you listen to every week. This tells about the nation in the TOP -10 of all the current shows in the country. Broadcasting currency is the number of eyes and ears that can be delivered to manufacturers and automakers. Honestly, we also do it a little on public radio.
But, in particular, in a conversation about the country, the audience also has votes. This program works best when we find ways to attract your stories about your work and your children, you are afraid of your successes about what happened in drought, hurricane, in a fire, in the hospital, work and at school, in Iraq or Vietnam.
Throughout my time, I worked as a reporter, editor and producer in the NPR. And no matter how I love all these works, the last 11 and a half years, this work was the best. It was an honor for me to talk to you every day.
I counted: 600 weeks. Let go of the vacation time, add all the special coating, let's complete it for 5000 hours. There is still something to talk about, but this should be enough.
So, a minute later I will return to where I started in public radio. I will be one of you again, the listener. Yes, the listener sponsor, but also criticism of the listener. I will cry, laugh and scream on the radio. And we, listeners, have a vital function. Our task is to hold the participants and NPR accountable.
So, right here I am forming my own private compact with NPR and my member stations. I will listen and, yes, I will open my checkbook, but I need some services in return. Go and tell me stories for everything that happened in the modern world. 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 on stupid things.
Bye bye. Subjected to talk about the nation and from the NPR News, I am Neil Conan, in Washington.
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