RadioBanter - View Single Post - The President's Saturday Radio Braodcast ?

September 21st 03, 01:46 AM

On 19 Sep 2003 19:58:24 GMT, (Al Dykes) wrote:

For as long as I can remember I've been hearing sound bytes
of the president's radio braodcast on my local radio news
but I've never heard an entire speech, or any reference
to a real live radio station associated with it.

When did it become a regular thing and how is it done ?

From a 2002 CBS News article on one of President Bush's addresses:

"The president's weekly radio address is a descendant of Franklin D.
Roosevelt's fireside chats. It was resurrected by Richard Nixon and
perfected by Ronald Reagan and used by Bill Clinton throughout his
administration."

The radio address was a natural for Reagan, of course, given his
movie/media background and even his radio work early on.

The address is not associated with any particular station or even
network. All of the major radio news networks (ABC, CBS, CNNRadio,
etc.) feed it on Saturday mornings, and C-SPAN televises it (with just
a picture of the president) later that day.

Some stations actually run it in full...mostly all-news or news/talk
stations that have some significant news-related programming on
Saturdays. We used to air it on "The KFBK Saturday Morning News" in
Sacramento when I was co-host...then KFBK discontinued it. The
station recently picked it up again, and now airs it at 8:20 AM PT on
the show now co-hosted by Marna Davis and Steve Kelley.

I haven't been there in nearly 2 years, so I have no idea if they air
the Democratic response or air the address again during the "News at
Noon".

Mike