Editing Morning Edition (section)

==Differences in pickup times==
Most stations in the Central and Eastern Time zones run ''Morning Edition'' live from 05:00 to 09:00 [[Eastern Time Zone|ET]], repeating one or both hours through morning drive time. Some stations run only the two hours, others run up to seven hours. The repeats are automatically fed through the NPR satellite, and are updated as necessary by NPR anchors in the studio when breaking news events occur. In the past, Edwards would stay at his NPR office until the program feeds ended at noon in case there was anything that required an update. Today, with four people capable of regularly anchoring the program, hosts can rotate out of on-air duties to report and produce feature reports that will air on later dates.

On the [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]], ''Morning Edition'' can run for up to seven hours running from the first live feed with the subsequent re-feeds.  For example, [[KPCC (radio station)|KPCC]] in [[Pasadena, California]] carries ''Morning Edition'', from 02:00 to 09:00 [[Pacific Standard Time|Pacific Time]]. KPCC handles the re-feeds uniquely: instead of taking the re-feed from the satellite, they "roll their own" by taking the tape from the feed two hours prior, so that they can run the A and B segments of ''Morning Edition'' about three minutes earlier than rival [[KCRW]] in [[Santa Monica, California|Santa Monica]], which takes the re-feed direct from the satellite. In the event of a breaking news story, KPCC runs the same feed as KCRW.

[[KJZZ (FM)|KJZZ]] in [[Phoenix, Arizona]] carries ''Morning Edition'' from 03:00 to 09:00 [[Mountain Standard Time|MST]] (two hours behind [[Eastern Standard Time|Eastern Time]] in the winter months, and three in the summer, as Arizona does not follow [[Daylight Saving Time]]), but uses local announcers, news updates/features and traffic/weather reports starting with the 05:00 hour.