I remembering seeing a notice similar to this on the Car Talk website a couple of weeks ago. Did anyone else see that? The plan as stated then was that the Car Talk program would continue to be produced in re-run format with no end in sight, and new podcasts posted weekly, but that individual NPR stations would have the choice starting in the fall of 2017 to broadcast it in their normal Car Talk time slot, or broadcast a different NPR program instead. For the latter, the listeners would still be able to listen to Car Talk as a weekly podcast.
I wonder if the weekly podcast will be discontinued too, starting Oct 2017? For my purposes the podcast is more important than the broadcast, b/c I rarely am able to listen to the broadcast due to scheduling conflicts. But I always download and listen to the podcast each week.
well, I hope they put on re runs of the original showsā¦, starting with the first and ending with the lastā¦, just as they were originally broadcast.
just as they do with Last of the Summer Wine, on PBS.
quality never goes out of style.
I will listen every Saturday, all day long, or as long as cartalk is on the radio.
ā¦but NPR has changed. I have not left NPR, NPR has left meā¦
it was a great educator and a great source of knowledge for most of my life and I am sad at how it has changedā¦
if click and clack are no longer there I will have no reason to tune the dial to NPR.
I donāt see how it would be possible for NPR to produce a ānewā version of Car Talk, the same content, but with different hosts. As mentioned above, Car Talk IS Tom and Ray. Trying to replicate the show will never work. Thatās not to say another NPR program about cars and car repair and maintenance wouldnāt be successful.
Concur with @wesw above, hope that at the minimum NPR continues as of Oct 2017 to upload repeats of past shows to its Car Talk podcast list. I see no reason not to just start at show number 1 and go from there. & it would be fun to hear some shows in the upcoming year with content from the earliest shows Tom and Ray did, even from the days before it wasnāt an NPR network selection.
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I have to disagree on that. Iāve been listening to NPR for years and year, from the very beginnings of All Things Considered, & continue to enjoy NPR True, over time the hosts change, the style changes, and the content changes. Iāll grant that NPRās decision to drop the long running program Talk of the Nation was indeed a disaster imo. But overall I still consider NPR content as something I can learn a little from every day, and is the best available listening from among all the radio broadcast stations we have here in the San Francisco Bay area. And the SF Bay Area radio stations ratings show that Iām not the only one who thinks so. The local NPR station here is the number one station in the ratings.
