were announced as the new hosts of the program starting August 20. Chakrabarti will host Mondays through Thursdays while Folkenflik will host Fridays and remain as NPR's media correspondent. In a memo issued July 1, 2020, WBUR CEO Margaret Low announced that the show would be reduced to one hour from two; no longer have live call-in from listeners; feature more highly produced, pre-recorded portions; and no longer have David Folkenflik as host of the show on Fridays, leaving Meghna Chakrabarti as sole host. The memo went on to assert that the changes were not related to pandemic-related budget shortfalls that have necessitated staff and programming cuts at WBUR, and that the same number of staff would produce the single hour of On Point as currently produce two hours. At the time of the memo, On Point was aired by 285 stations, with 159 airing both hours. As of 2021, the show is now being distributed by American Public Media. Notable coverage The show traveled to Shanghai, People's Republic of China, to broadcast a week of programming from April 14 to 18, 2008. Topics ranged from the Beijing Olympics to Chinese cinema. Among the guests were leading China analysts, officials and journalists. A new website was launched to coincide with the trip. In the run-up to the 2008 presidential campaign, the show interviewed Barack Obama, John McCain, Mike Huckabee, John Edwards, Ron Paul, Joe Biden, Chris Dodd and Sam Brownback. Election commentators included Donna Brazile, Tom Brokaw, Bob Shrum, Dana Milbank, Tony Fabrizio, Joe Klein, EJ Dionne, Pat Buchanan, Peter Hart, and Hendrik Hertzberg. The show traveled to both the Democratic and Republican conventions, broadcasting live in the morning and at night. Time and location On Point is broadcast live from Boston, Massachusetts on WBUR FM (90.9 MHz) from 10 to 11 a.m. ET, occupying the former time slot of The Connection, and repeats from 7 to 8 p.m. Friday's show almost always consists of an analysis of the previous week's news headlines. The Friday news analysis segments usually feature senior editor of The Atlantic Monthly and historian Jack Beatty as a news analyst, as well as, typically, two or three other guest commentators. As of 2021, the previously stated “Week in the News” segments no longer exist. Nowadays Beatty will be featured in single topic episodes, but is not part of a panel of reporters and journalists discussing weekly