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Our dead AM band

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Sunday night, 9:10 p.m.. Trying to find some coverage of the congressional shenanigans going on tonight. Across the AM band I go. 550 The Coin Show, 700 a stale rebroadcast of Willie, 1230 music, 1360 sports, 1410 sports, 1530 sports. The only place with live coverage, the Allen Hunt Show on 1290 WHIO. At least one station actually knows what news is. Oops, it's now 10 p.m. and Allen is over, Clark Howard is on. Time for meds and bed. ;D I'll find out more in the morning. I, like our AM band, am now sleeping. ZZZZzzzz....
 
You don't need to listen to AM radio to know what the coverage of the health care bill would be, it'll be the same stuff they've been doing for a year or so now, screaming and fearmongering. Yawn.
 
gr8oldies said:
Cunningham's national show started at 10 but he or someone should have been live at 9.
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I worked last night, but when I got in the car at 10, Willie was making a big deal that the reason he was live on sunday night was to capture moments like last night. Guess it's important to have a live Sunday night show, but not before 10.
 
I was really surprised he didn't go live at 9:00. It would be nice if WLW carried his last hour live, but there's no shortage of places to hear that (such as WLS, WHAS and WBAP).
 
Interestingly enough here in Iowa most radio stations of all formats run some kind of news coverage, usually at the top of the hour. There once was a time when this was a given anywhere you went. I do not think that wall to wall coverage of congressional activity would be compelling radio and if that is what you want then it will probably never happen. All you have to do is tune into C-Span and you will easily slip into drowsiness very quickly. Then you have to consider that the very reason Mrs. Pelosi scheduled the vote on Sunday when most news organizations are at their lowest activity could have been a very deliberate strategy. She knew that it was a widely disliked controversial matter and wanted the least possible attention to be given.

I am not a fan of the talking head coverage favored on FOX, CNN and other news coverage either. Seeing a bunch of supposedly erudite individuals give their take on the proceedings is not all that wonderful either. At times I kind of long for the good old days when you had to wait for Chet and Dave or Uncle Walter to give you the news at dinner time.
 
I can't stand seeing of listening to those elected preening prima donnas.
 
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