On Point

KSFC 91.9 Monday-Friday, 8am-10am
The 8am hour is LIVE and listeners may call in:
1-800-423-8255

The 9am hour is pre-recorded

Note from WBUR Program Director Sam Fleming
On Point Host Tom Ashbrook is recuperating from successful bypass surgery that happened the week of November 12.
Tom’s doctor says the surgery went extremely well. Tom plans to be back in the host chair at On Point January 2nd. Guest hosts during Tom’s absence include former CBS Anchor Jane Clayson, NPR’s Jacki Lyden, former ABC Correspondent Sheilah Kast and James Hattori, a former Correspondent for NBC News.

About 'On Point'

Join Tom Ashbrook in conversation about the day's important news developments. On Point is WBUR in Boston's live morning news program that covers each day's important news developments and conducts conversations with newsmakers and thinkers from around the world.

A talk program and news-magazine hybrid, On Point puts each day's news into context and provides a lively forum for discussion and debate. Its topics are often taken from the biggest news stories of the day while others have a direct connection to issues that are at the core of what is urgent and important in the world at the moment. Interwoven are programs containing interviews with personalities, politicians, musicians, writers, and journalists. On Point deliberately seeks out distinct and provocative voices that may be new to public radio or that may not have been heard in quite the same context before.

Host Tom Ashbrook
Ashbrook is an award-winning journalist brought to public radio by the attacks of September 11, 2001 after a distinguished career in newspaper reporting and editing. Ashbrook was raised on an Illinois farm, attended Yale University and worked as a surveyor and dynamiter in Alaska's oil fields before turning foreign correspondent. He spent ten years in Asia, based in India, Hong Kong and Tokyo. At the Boston Globe, he directed coverage of the end of the Cold War and of the Gulf War, serving as deputy managing editor until 1996. He was awarded the Livingston Prize for National Reporting and named a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University before taking a four-year plunge into Internet entrepreneurship, chronicled in his book "The Leap." Ashbrook was enlisted to host emergency coverage of the 9/11 attacks and world response for National Public Radio through WBUR in Boston, Mass., which now produces On Point.