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9/11 Broadcast

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Miss_Anthrope

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I was fan years ago of their show, then got a chance to listen online when they went to the east coast (before CC dumped streaming). I didn't hear this broadcast until today, but it's chilling. Especially how casual it starts out.

Dick and Justice were the morning show on 9/11/01 on San Bernardino's X1039. I know a bunch of shows are revisiting that day (like CNN, FoxNews, MSNBC...) but I can't find out where the guys are. It seems Justice has struck out on his own-- probably tired of being bagged on by his partner (but, hey, it was funny shiznit).

If you wanna hear a little I.E. show handling 9/11, stop by http://fmjustice.typepad.com/. They sound pretty confused but hell it doesn't surprise me.

I know Dan (news guy) was a P/T traffic/chopper guy in LA for a while. Dunno where he ended up either.
 
On 9/11/01, KNX did the best coverage imaginable:

As I recall, at 5:49, in the middle of a spot, they just dumped to WCBS air. The Newsradio 880 chopper reporters were in midsentence, calling the tragedy. KNX kept WCBS potted up for the next 3 or 4 hours.

One wonders how they would handle it today. Probably send Aiden Pickering out to Larchmont again for another POS interview, while preempting the CBS feed. This would be followed by Dave and Vickie vamping and interviewing someone on the phone who once saw a horror movie. Then we'd get a new imaging spot from the guy with the conspiratorial voice ("terror, TERROR, the terror of it all!, stay in tune with the terror, (squealing breaks SFX mix into old sounder) only on KNX 1070, Los Angeles, Orange County, and part of San Diego but not Palm Springs, and on the web now, please somebody below the age of 45 listen to us streaming at KNX1070 dot com." Then, a truncated network news, and rerun the taped interview.
 
zumahans said:
POS = person on the street, not ...
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We can thank David G. Hall for turning KNX into something approaching a POS.

And in this case I don't mean "person on the street." :mad:
 
zumahans said:
On 9/11/01, KNX did the best coverage imaginable:

As I recall, at 5:49, in the middle of a spot, they just dumped to WCBS air. The Newsradio 880 chopper reporters were in midsentence, calling the tragedy. KNX kept WCBS potted up for the next 3 or 4 hours.

One wonders how they would handle it today. Probably send Aiden Pickering out to Larchmont again for another POS interview, while preempting the CBS feed. This would be followed by Dave and Vickie vamping and interviewing someone on the phone who once saw a horror movie. Then we'd get a new imaging spot from the guy with the conspiratorial voice ("terror, TERROR, the terror of it all!, stay in tune with the terror, (squealing breaks SFX mix into old sounder) only on KNX 1070, Los Angeles, Orange County, and part of San Diego but not Palm Springs, and on the web now, please somebody below the age of 45 listen to us streaming at KNX1070 dot com." Then, a truncated network news, and rerun the taped interview.
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Make that brakes. Can't believe I pulled that mistake.
 
oldiesfan6479 said:
We can thank David G. Hall for turning KNX into something approaching a POS.
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No kidding. It's so hard to listen to now. No wonder Gail Eichenthal took off running when she saw Hall coming.
 
Against my better judgment I listened to KNX from 5:30-6:02.

As predicted: preproduced pieces.

Maudlin background music.

Idiotic sound cues that had no context, no meaning.

And ABSOLUTELY NOTHING NEW, except a pretty good interview with Jimmy Breslin.

But I could have written that script a month ago, as I am sure some poor sap did.

The best/worst part: not one mention, during the entire half hour, of that little itty bitty BRUSHFIRE THAT WAS BURNING ACROSS THE GRAPEVINE AND CLOSED I-5 TO ALL TRAFFIC. Not mentioned. Incredible!

Oh, yeah, the traffic reports mentioned it twice, no alternate routes, no estimated time of closure, no airborne reports.

Oh, the second best part was hearing the anchors babble incessently, forget to do a legal ID, and then upcut the President Of The United States who surprised them by beginning exactly on his cue.
 
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