What's the best thing about waking up for more than 13 million people worldwide? Coffee, juice, and a staple to satisfy the curious with NPR's Morning Edition, weekday mornings from from 5 until 10 on WBFO. Hours before alarms buzz and coffeemakers drip, an international team of award-winning journalists, commentators, producers, and analysts prepare the most popular news program on public radio, offering a welcome alternative to the talking heads, sound-bite journalism, and confrontational conversation found elsewhere.

As a source of news and information, Morning Edition goes deeper. NPR reporters and contributors present multi-faceted stories and commentary meant to inform, challenge, and occasionally even amuse. Listeners get a play-by-play on national politics from Cokie Roberts, wonder at the wisdom of animals with cowboy-poet Baxter Black, ponder the philosophy of sports with Sports Illustrated writer Frank Deford, and meet fascinating people with Susan Stamberg.

In Buffalo, you'll hear in-depth local news reports gathered by WBFO's news team, Mark Scott, Joyce Kryszak, and Eileen Buckley. Frequent Buffalo weather updates help you begin your day.

Jim Santella and Anthony Chase review area stage productions on Friday's Theatre Talk. You have the chance to be heard too, during our Tuesday Listener Commentary segment!

Other features include the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, and Pulse of the Planet at 5:19am and 9:19am.

Morning Edition is more than a morning news program. It is essential radio that frames the day for devoted listeners around the world, heard every weekday morning from 5am until 10am on WBFO.