The President's Saturday Radio Braodcast ?
 

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 ?

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Al Dykes
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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 ?

IIRC it began in the Reagan administration. President Reagan, who
began his working life in radio, was granted five minutes per week by
the national radio networks to address the nation, "unfiltered" as it
were. Democrats were then granted equal time to reply. Every
president since then has continued the tradition, and the opposition
party has continued to provide responses. But fewer stations carry
them nowadays.

Mark Howell

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

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.


One of the news stations in LA (KNX I think) runs the
President (and the opposition party's response) every
Sat morning.

CNN TV airs it on a DB basis.

-Steve


"Al Dykes" wrote in message
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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 ?

--
Al Dykes
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"Al Dykes" wrote in message

When did [the president's weekly radio address] become a
regular thing and how is it done ?

I think it began with "Red Ink" Reagan. As for how it's done,
they probably use a microphone and a script. I suspect the
scripts that The Fraud reads are written phonetically.

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"Al Dykes" wrote in message

When did [the president's weekly radio address] become a
regular thing and how is it done ?

I think it began with "Red Ink" Reagan. As for how it's done,
they probably use a microphone and a script. I suspect the
scripts that The Fraud reads are written phonetically.

Used to be, we would call the White House Actuality Line every
afternoon on the phone, and tape whatever nice sound bites were available
that day for broadcast, also. I think that got shut down when Clinton
came into office, and I kind of miss it. I do remember it being available
for Bush I.

Our news guys were slowly patching together various Reagan newsbites into
a very amusing splice job.
--scott
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