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Weekday sibling ''[[Morning Edition]]'' breaks up each hour into five segments, none more than nine minutes long; ''Weekend Edition'' uses only three segments per hour, accommodating longer stories than could be allowed on ''Morning Edition''.

''Weekend Edition'' begins with a sixty-second billboard. Both Simon and MartinGarcia-Navarro use the billboard as a general discussion about what's coming up in the hour, infused with soundbites from selected stories. A standard five-minute NPR newscast follows, until six past the hour. A thirty-second [[music bed]] follows the newscast, allowing local stations an opportunity to promote programming or local news/weather/traffic.

Segment A begins at 6:30 past the hour (duration 11:29). It is here that the most important news of the day is placed. Regular features (such as, before his death, [[Daniel Schorr]]'s weekly news wrap-up) appear in this segment. At eighteen minutes past the hour, a two-minute station break starts. The first minute is a music bed solely for use of the member stations. The second minute, from nineteen to twenty past, is a "headlines" segment in which the NPR newscaster on staff that morning recaps the major stories of the hour. Some stations decide to use the entire two minutes for local purposes, taking the opportunity to deliver their own headlines, underwriting or events calendars.