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Obama to address the nation at 9 PM ET tonight, will 1060 air it?

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I will be very disappointed  if KYW-AM doesn't carry President Obama's address to the nation tonight at 9. The station has skipped a few presidential addresses and news conferences in the past few months. This signals to me that airing the news format is more important than hearing from the the President and if that's the case, the station is in trouble IMO. I love the station to death but I don't like this, at all.
 
I'm afraid to find out for myself so could someone check for me? thanks. I will be watching it on TV. BTW I hope the station will have sense enough to also air live House Speaker John Boehner's statement of his own following the President. Boehner’s statement is expected to begin 2-3 minutes after Obama’s and will last 6-7 minutes.
 
The station didn't air it. I'm really pissed. I don't like the direction the station is going. I think its time for new people to run it.
 
It's AM radio at night. Tune around and you'll find it on multiple stations. Only 1 station on the East coast would need to air it to reach everyone.
 
WHYY-FM carried Obama's and Boehner's speeches live. I was driving at the time. I initially tuned in KYW and was disappointed. Fortunately, the thought immediately occurred that WHYY-FM might be carrying it and they were.
 
1210 WPHT aired both speeches live also. But 1060 should air speeches like this.
 
Know what? It's great to just listen to such speeches on the radio. YouTube, Facebook, online this and that are the newest wave and already outdated, but there is nothing like listening to it on good old radio. Election returns on the radio are neat too, and rather than wait to hear on the radio who won in a local election, it's nice to walk to City Hall and wait for the posting on the door.

Just thought I would throw that out there. Some things are timeless.
 
Julius May said:
1210 WPHT aired both speeches live also. But 1060 should air speeches like this.
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No, KYW is a local news station, and most Presidential speeches involve policy and are not news themselves. The President had already held several news events regarding the debt limit, and this speech didn't promise to break any news (nor did it). Several TV outlets carried the speech as did NPR and several news/talk stations like WPHT. KYW made the right call to not interrupt their news clock to carry a non-event that could be summarized in two sentences.

The Bin Laden speech was news. This, like most other Presidential speeches, was not.
 
At this point in time, most Obama speeches are nothing more than re-election campaign speechs. KYW is right in not airing them unless Obama is saying something new and interesting/important.
 
I agreee, jugut...

Who cares if they ran it? It is political diatribe, not an issue of national security or wartime crisis. Just Obama being a politician.
 
It is good to find out where they are coming from. If they don't get their in your face time, you are not going to know their gimmicks or ideas.
 
Sure, both Obama and Bohner were giving political speeches to support their point of view in hopes of gaining public support for THEIR particular vision. That's not a bad thing. Not everyone spends all their time glued to Talk Radio, Fox Cable News, CNN, or MSNBC. Both men should have gone before the nation, I have no problem with that. This is an important issue for our nation and the greater voting public (other than political junkies) needs to be kept abreast of what's going on.

Having said that, if no other radio station in Philly was airing the President's and Speaker's speeches, then I might agree that KYW should have aired it. But as 90.9 WHYY-FM and 1210 WPHT (which is owned by the same owners as 1060 KYW) aired the speeches, the Philly market was covered quite well in terms of radio coverage with two strong signaled stations, one AM and the other FM.
 
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