KPBS

Like many other reviewers, I am an NPR junkie. However, I rarely listen to KPBS anymore due to its unbearably boring local coverage and overall poor program choices.
Though I used to listen to it around the clock a few years ago, now that podcasts are available, I don’t have to anymore.
Undoubtedly, the worst aspect of KPBS is the local coverage. Both «Morning Edition» and «Midday Edition» feature dry, boring topics, and the callers’ comments are equally inane. How many more years do we have to listen to the voice of Maureen Cavanaugh? She was fine years ago as an announcer;‘her soothing voice was nice in between real shows like «All Things Considered» and «Fresh Air.» However, she is not suited to be the host of her own show. Her questions and style of interacting with the guests is immature, and the questions/​comments are unintelligent.
Worse still is Tom Fudge. Why is he still on the air? Before podcasts, when I just kept KPBS on in the background all the time, I was dismayed and frustrated to hear how unprepared and uninformed he was when discussing topics with guests. I remember him once making a completely erroneous remark, which was corrected by his exasperated guest. Tom’s reply was a defensive and sarcastic, «Sorry, I wasn’t born then.» Really?
Furthermore, the new program schedule is not nearly as good as it once was. I still can’t believe that «Fresh Air» has been moved from 1:00 until 8:00 pm! Whose decision was that? Though I know everyone has different schedules, 1:00 seems an ideal spot for most of us since it falls during lunch time, and the time when we are driving around. Personally, by the time 8 rolls around, I am finishing dinner, helping my children with their HW, and getting ready for bed. Now, instead of one of the best programs, we have the usually boring «To the Point,» with Warren Onley, who sounds like Tom Fudge’s much older brother. Needless to say, this show is hardly riveting.
Thank God «The World» is still on at 2– this is one of my favorite shows. However, it is followed by Marketplace, which then has to be rebroadcast just a short while later.
Weekends used to be excellent, but now that 2 annoying new shows, «Ask me Another» and «Snap Judgment» have been added, in addition to the dull «Marketplace Money,» I only turn my radio on between 7 & 10, so that I can listen to Weekend Edition Saturday and «Wait Wait…» One more thing– why has «Wait Wait…» Been moved to 9? Many listeners like to sleep in on the weekends, and would appreciate being able to Listen to the great Rachel Martin and Scott Simon while drinking their coffee.
I am confused as to why the local coverage is so weak and poorly produced. What’s going on with that? I used to be a member, but no longer contribute due to careless management and poor quality.

Ordered some things for my 88 year old mother for Christmas around ¹²⁄₀₉. Half of the order barely arrived before Christmas. The rest arrived ⁰¹⁄₀₅. Kind of late for the rest of it. If you don’t have it to ship in time for Christmas, then say so up front and let the buyer decide what they want to do. I felt like I was tricked when they already knew they didn’t have the merchandise available.
Opened the package to find damaged CD casing. Opened one to check the CD. Didn’t look damaged, but now I don’t trust any of it.
Called customer service about (1) arriving a month after being ordered, and (2) arriving damaged. Was told these items were a ‘pre-​order’. Told him nothing in the website ordering indicated such. It had showed as in stock. I received an email after the order that it was not in stock. So assumed that was it for those items.
Getting a free shipping label sometime next week. They’re trying to send replacements, but I’m sending everything back. It was intended as a Christmas gift for my mother. I had to do something else instead.
I WILL NEVER ORDER FROM THEM AGAIN.

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KPBS radio is great. I enjoy listening to NPR while I drive. It helps keep me informed about current local, national, and world events without all the political spin. There is always something interesting on the channel during weekdays. The weekend lineup is okay, but I prefer the weekday lineup.

Very little that hasn’t been shown over and over, ad nauseum! I am so sick of the constant reruns! No longer giving.

I think the KPBS broadcast is getting worse if anything… I cannot find current shows there, and the local coverage is abysmal. I guess I suffer from experiencing the good PBS stations in better markets: Boston, LA, Seattle, NYC. The worst thing is the monopoly COX has with SDSU PBS! No other stations will ever be broadcast on COX, be sure of that. I hope to switch to DISH to break my ties to the COX-​KPBS monopoly… the reason I have not yet is the absence of another high speed internet provider (to COX). Anyone else have a solution to breaking the COX KPBS monopoly? I always stream radio at home… some good ones are KPCC, Jefferson Pubic Radio, KQED. KPBS radio is not horrible, but the TV IS horrible!!!

I love NPR and KPBS. Listening to NPR in my house and/​or car is definitely my main source for news and information, and agree w/​fellow Unilocalers that it is so informative and insightful. I have great memories growing up of always having NPR playing in the background (and, apparently, my kids now will too). Really appreciate the local news coverage and shows (A Way With Words) and so many of the national shows: Prairie Home Companion, Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me, Rick Steves, This American Life, Car Talk (even though it’s now re-​reruns — those guys deserve to retire); etc.
Don’t watch as much of the KPBS TV shows, but do enjoy many of their specials, Antique Roadshow, Downton Abbey, America’s Test Kitchen, etc.
Had the chance tonight to volunteer to answer phones during one of the KPBS-​TV Pledge Drives, and was a pretty incredible experience to be involved first-​hand, and see the back-​stage side of the both the TV and radio studios; even got a free dinner for our volunteer group and quick tour of the TV and radio studios. Look online if you’re interested in doing the same thing. Thank you KPBS and NPR for everything you do, and thank you to everyone who supports them!

I love listening to KPBS while in the car and find NPR to be incredibly insightful and informative. The programing on this station tends to be of high quality and informs as well as entertains.

Potential for more stars but they always cater to the geezer buck.
By the way, the reason Rick Steves looks so young is because he has been on for over 25 years and nothing is new!!! How often can you say repeat?
I would give more if you actually played the damn new shows instead of the horrible pledge shows.
OMG Rick Steves OUTAKES?! How low can you go?
Oh, how about showing Savour San Diego another 100 times 3 times more a week? It’s good, but don’t make us hate it.
Stop with the crummy pledge shows– No More INFOMERCIALS!!! on how to save your body, brain, child, money.

On par for a large city public radio and TV franchise. Which isn’t saying a lot, since PBS and NPR basically became Fox-​lite over the Bush years as they ran scared from right-​wing claims of left-​wing bias.
My main pet peeve is that PBS TV usually only plays good programs once, but they burn up prime-​time slots to repeatedly air garbage like Hugh Laurie’s I-​think-​I-​can-​sing infomercial, or «Doctor» (of «Educational Counseling») Wayne Dyer’s navel-​gazing nausea-​fests.
And what’s with all the British-​like accents on NPR? Just thinking about the NPR stations I listen to regularly, KPBS has Alison St John, Oregon Public Radio has Kristian Foden-​Vencil (okay, he’s cool), and Texas Public Radio has some Brit-​sounding woman whose name I can’t recall. Do we think all the posh-​speak klasses up the joint? Is it the goofy American belief that people with Brit accents are automatically intelligent? Does British radio have American hillbilly-​sounding talent to provide a less pretentious flair?

I love NPR! This station isn’t as great as KCRW. Though this station comes in more than KCRW. I like Car Talk, This American Life, Prairie Home Companion, and Wait Wait, Don’t Tell Me. Also I like the TV station which has cool stuff like Masterpiece which has Sherlock and Downtown Abbey. They also show Moone boy, which is a pretty funny show.