Talk radio

The most popular station broadcasting talkback radio is historically Sydney's 2UE, whose right-wing hosts, particularly John Laws, are widely syndicated across the continent, though it has in recent years been eclipsed by Sydney's 2GB after the defection of 2UE most popular talkback host, Alan Jones. In October 2005, the Vice President's Chief of Staff Lewis Libby was indicted on 5 counts of perjury and obstruction of justice. In Australia, talk radio is known as talkback radio. US Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald is investigating the events surrounding the naming of Valerie Plame to determine what crimes, if any, were committed in the process. Syndicated programs from the United States which air on Canadian radio stations include:. "CIA leak scandal"). Others include the CHUM Radio Network and the Standard Radio Network. The revelation of Plame's identity by Bush administration officials, is the basis for the "Plame affair" (aka.

The largest of these is the Corus Radio Network. Other journalists have also mentioned her identity. Privately-owned talk radio syndication networks in Canada are generally formed for the purposes of sharing programs across a group of stations with common ownership, although some are formed to distribute their one or two talk radio programs to a number of stations regardless of ownership. Syndicated columnist Robert Novak described Plame as "an Agency operative on weapons of mass destruction" in a July 2003 column. Both networks are commercial-free. The Senate Intelligence Committee Report of July 2004, however, indicates that Wilson's piece prematurely decided on what seems to be an open question about whether an Iraqi envoy attempted to buy yellowcake uranium from Niger. These stations typically produce their own local morning and afternoon programs and regional noon hour programs to go along with the network programming that is aired during the rest of the day. On 11 July 2003, five days following the publication of Wilson's Op-Ed piece, the CIA issued a statement discrediting what it called "highly dubious" accounts of Iraqi attempts to purchase uranium from Niger.[11] In the press release, CIA Director George Tenet said it should "never" have permitted the "16 words" relating to alleged Iraqi uranium purchases to be used in President Bush's 2003 State of the Union address, and called it a "mistake" that the CIA allowed such a reference to be used in the speech.

The two largest talk radio networks in Canada are the publicly-owned Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's English language CBC Radio One and French language Première Chaîne. These documents, known as the Yellowcake documents, stated that Iraq attempted to buy yellowcake uranium, necessary for the creation of nuclear weapons, from the country of Niger. Other Canadian talk radio programs which have been syndicated to different markets include:. He also criticized the administration for using allegedly unreliable documents (Yellowcake forgery) to make its case against Iraq. Rutherford is no longer syndicated nationally but continues to air in Calgary and London. Wilson later wrote an Op-Ed piece on July 6th, 2003, in the New York Times entitled, "What I Didn't Find in Africa," in which he claimed that he had found no evidence of Iraqi pursuit of nuclear material during his trip to Africa. Both programs are distributed by the Corus Radio Network and, coincidentally, both hosts had hosted different morning call-in programs in the same time slot on Winnipeg, Manitoba's CJOB 680 before they became nationally syndicated (Adler's show still originates from CJOB and retained its original title, while Warren is now based in Victoria, British Columbia.) Prior to Adler On Line, Corus had syndicated Rutherford, hosted by Dave Rutherford and originating from its Calgary station, QR77. Bush administration official — was quoted in the March 3, 2003, edition of magazine The Nation that "America has entered one of it periods of historical madness" in regards to the Iraq War.

Peter Warren's Warren on the Weekend is heard Saturdays and Sundays. W. The only nationally-syndicated, politically-oriented weekday talk radio show in Canada is Adler On Line, hosted by Charles Adler and heard on eleven stations across the country. Wilson — Plame's husband and a George H. There is no Canadian content requirement for talk radio, or "spoken word", programming. In one of his first statements on the plan to invade Iraq, Joseph C. In contrast to talk radio stations in the United States where syndicated programs tend to make up a significant part of most schedules, privately-owned Canadian talk radio stations tend to be predominantly local in programming and focus. by Elisabeth Bumiller, who wrote (5 October 2003):.

Previously, he kept a suicidal teenager talking for 45 minutes before meeting him to convince him against that course of action [2]. Valerie Plame Wilson was identified in the New York Times as a N.O.C. Pete Price on Magic 1548 is also known as the DJ who rushed to the aid of a regular caller who died live on air during a call [1]. [10]. Some notable presenters include Clive Bull, Steve Allen, Daisy Sampson, Nicky Campbell, Simon Mayo. Nevertheless, court papers released in early 2006 showed that Fitzgerald did in fact conclude that Plame was a "covert" agent under the IIPA, though he did not seek charges on that count because he lacked proof that Libby was aware of her status. Talk radio expanded dramatically when the BBC's monopoly on radio broadcasting was ended in the 1970s with the launch of Independent Local Radio. During the press conference, Fitzgerald was asked if he knew whether Libby revealed Plame's covert status knowingly; he responded:.

LBC currently operates two services in London - LBC 97.3, a newstalk station on FM; and LBC News 1152, a rolling news station on AM. She was a national security asset until exposed by Karl Rove and Scooter Libby."[7] It was confirmed that she was a covert operative early in the investigation by acting intelligence officials, setting the matter to rest.[8]. Other notable commercial talk stations include London's LBC which pioneered the newstalk format in Europe. She met with folks who worked in the nuclear industry, cultivated sources, and managed spies. Many BBC Local Radio stations offer a talk format, for example, BBC London, the BBC's flagship local ststion. In the case of Valerie Wilson, energy consultant for Brewster-Jennings, she traveled overseas in 2003, 2002, and 2001, as part of her cover job. Nationwide talk stations include BBC Radio 4, BBC Radio Five Live and TalkSport. Served does not mean lived.

Talk radio in the United Kingdom is popular, though not as much as music radio. Johnson attempted to clear up the confusion surrounding Plame's status in a column responding to Max Boot: "The law actually requires that a covered person 'served' overseas in the last five years. Sports talk stations like WFAN in New York City and WEEI in Boston have done well in the ratings (aided by baseball and football game broadcasts). Former CIA officer Larry C. Sports talk radio can be found locally and nationally (with the networks ESPN Radio, Fox Sports Radio, and Sporting News Network). Columnist Robert Novak wrote that an Agency source said Plame "has been an analyst, not in covert operations." [6] It has been speculated that Plame may have worked in the CIA administration in the office of former CIA Deputy Director of Operations (DDO) James Pavitt. Some shock jocks such as Opie and Anthony, Ron and Fez, Howard Stern, Don Imus, and Tom Leykis, are also considered talk radio hosts. [5] Conservative columnist Max Boot argues that it is very unlikely that a CIA employee commuting to the headquarters building each day would be a covert agent.

Radio show hosts such as Alex Jones focus on exposing Government corruption. According to USA Today, Plame worked in the Langley, Virginia, CIA headquarters since 1997, when she returned from her last assignment, and married Joe Wilson and had her twins. Jeff Rense, who hosts an Internet radio show, also features paranormal matters, conspiracy theories, and some politics. Some claim to be uncertain as to whether Plame was a covert agent. George Noory, Art Bell and others take turns hosting the late-night talk radio show Coast to Coast AM, which deals with a variety of paranormal topics. At his October 28, 2005, press conference, Special Counsel Fitzgerald noted:. Other hosts specialize in talk radio comedy, such as Phil Hendrie, who voices his own fictional guests and occassionally parodies other programs. Plame is known to have served in a classified position as a CIA officer.

Other topics of discussion in talk radio include:. ^[4]. In 2002 an alternative to the progressive / conservative talk radio dichotomy emerged called Free Talk Live. If caught in that status she would have been executed." ^[3] David Armstrong, an Andover researcher for the Public Education Center, believed that the Brewster Jennings & Associates cover had not been done convincingly and that other covers would have been established for her by the CIA. Some conservatives argue that the long-format news programming on National Public Radio serves as a platform for liberal commentary on radio, although the network denies any partisan agenda. He explained: "...that meant she agreed to operate overseas without the protection of a diplomatic passport. Left-wing opinion radio has long existed on the Pacifica network, though only available in a small number of cities, and in formats that more often act as a volunteer-run community forum than as a platform for charismatic hosts who would be likely to attract a large audience. Johnson, who left the CIA in 1989, indicated Plame had been a "non-official cover operative" (NOC).

A few earlier syndicated programs were hosted by prominent Democrats who were not experienced broadcasters, such as Jim Hightower, Jerry Brown, Mario Cuomo and Alan Dershowitz; these met with limited success, and Air America has been faced with various legal and financial problems. Former CIA official Larry C. KABC in Los Angeles. D&B records list the company as a "legal services office," located at 101 Arch Street, Boston, Massachusetts. Air America Radio, a network featuring The Al Franken Show that was founded in 2004 as a "progressive alternative" to right-wing talk, is a prominent example of liberal talk on commercial radio, and there are syndicated liberal talk programs of recent vintage as well, such as The Ed Schultz Show. In some markets, local liberal hosts have existed for years, such as Bernie Ward in San Francisco, Alan Colmes in New York, Lionel in New York, Stephanie Miller in Los Angeles, and Mr. "Brewster Jennings" was first entered into Dun and Bradstreet records on May 22, 1994, but D&B would not discuss the source of the filing. Politically liberal talk radio aimed at a national audience has also emerged, although its ultimate success in competing with conservative talk radio for dominance remains in question. While undercover, she had described herself as an "energy analyst" for the private company "Brewster Jennings & Associates," which the CIA later acknowledged was a front company for certain investigations.

Many of these hosts also publish books, appear on television, and give public lectures (Limbaugh, again, was a pioneer of this model of multi-media punditry). Little is known of Plame's professional career. Libertarians such as Neal Boortz have also achieved some success. ^[2]. The Salem Radio Network syndicates a group of religiously-oriented Republican activists, including evangelical Christian Hugh Hewitt and Jewish conservatives Dennis Prager and Michael Medved. During her time at Penn State, she had worked on the business side of PSU's student newspaper, The Daily Collegian. According to an October 9, 2003 Collegian article, she previously attended Lower Moreland High School in Huntingdon Valley, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. Gordon Liddy, Laura Ingraham, Michael Savage, Bill O'Reilly, Glenn Beck, Larry Elder, Michael Reagan, Ken Hamblin, and The Weekend Warriors. government in Washington D.C.

Limbaugh's success demonstrated that there was a market for passionately delivered conservative (and in most cases, partisan Republican) commentary on contemporary events, and many nationally-syndicated hosts have followed Limbaugh's lead in recent years, including Ben Ferguson, Lars Larson, Sean Hannity, G. Soon after graduation, she started working for the U.S. (There had been some precursors for this, such as the Los Angeles-area controversialist Joe Pyne, who would attack callers on his program in the early 1960s – one of his famous insults was "gargle with razor blades!" – as well as the similar Bob Grant in New York City.) The most successful pioneer in the 1990s talk radio movement was the politically conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh. Plame is a 1985 graduate of the Pennsylvania State University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, and the College of Europe, an international-relations school in Bruges, in 1995. The repeal of the FCC "fairness doctrine" in 1987-which had required that stations provide free air time for responses to any controversial opinions that were broadcast-provided an opportunity for a kind of flatly partisan (and often intentionally inflammatory) programming that had not previously existed. Wilson and Plame are the parents of five-year-old twins. The United States saw dramatic growth in the popularity of talk radio during the 1990s. At the time, Wilson was separated from his second wife Jacqueline, a former French diplomat.

In the United States and Canada, Satellite Radio broadcasters syndicate many conventional "AM" talk radio shows, as well as produce their own original talk shows. She was able to reveal her CIA role to him while they were dating because he held a security clearance. These shows often rely less on political discussion and analysis than their AM counterparts, and often employ the use of pranks and staged phone calls for entertainment purposes. Plame met Wilson, her second husband, at a Washington D.C party in early 1997. The commercial FM talk stations often feature hosts such as Tom Leykis and Howard Stern whose audiences are comprised of more men than women. Wilson IV. Commercial all-talk stations can be found on the FM band in Los Angeles, Boston and other cities. On April 3, 1998, Plame became the third wife of former Ambassador Joseph C.

"Non-commercial" usually referred to as "public radio", which is located in a reserved spectrum of the FM band, also broadcasts talk programs. . Talk radio is not limited to the AM band. Bush's closest assistants on national security, and Chief of Staff for the Vice President Dick Cheney, Lewis "Scooter" Libby, is now indicted on perjury and obstruction of justice. Former music stations such as WLW (Cincinnati, Ohio), WHAS (Louisville, Kentucky), WHAM (Rochester, New York), WLS (Chicago, Illinois), KFI (Los Angeles, California), WRKO (Boston, Massachusetts) and WABC (New York, New York) made the switch to all-talk as their ratings slumped due to listener migration to the FM band. Resulting from the October 2005 investigation, one of President George W. In the 1970s and early 1980s, as many listeners abandoned AM music formats for the high fidelity sound of the FM radio dial, the Talk Radio format began to catch on in more large cities. The ensuing political controversy, commonly referred to as the Plame affair, or the CIA leak scandal, led, in late 2003, to a Justice Department investigation into possible violation of criminal statutes, including the Intelligence Identities Protection Act of 1982.

KABC station manager Ben Hoberman and KMOX station manager Robert Hyland independently developed the all-talk format. Valerie Elise Plame Wilson^[1] (born April 19, 1963 in Anchorage, Alaska) was a United States Central Intelligence Agency officer, who was identified as a CIA operative in a newspaper column by Robert Novak on July 14, 2003. Louis, Missouri, and KABC, 790 AM in Los Angeles—adopted an all-talk show format in 1960, and both claim to be the first to have done so.
. Two radio stations—KMOX, 1120 AM in St. Joe Pyne and John Nebel were also among the first to explore the medium in the 1950s.

Soon followed by listener call-ins, this is often credited as the first instance of talk radio, and Gray is often billed as "The Father of Talk Radio". Working for New York's WMCA in 1945, Barry Gray was bored with playing music and put a telephone receiver up to his microphone to talk with bandleader Woody Herman. Talk radio has existed since at least the mid-1940s. .

(In public or non-commercial radio, sometimes music is played in place of commercials to separate the program segments). Generally, the shows are organized into segments, each separated by a pause for advertisements. Listener contributions are usually screened by a show's producer(s) in order to maximize audience interest and, in the case of commercial talk radio, attract advertisers. Talk radio typically includes an element of listener participation, usually by broadcasting conversations with listeners who have placed telephone calls to speak with the program's host or guest.

Most shows feature a regular host, who interviews a number of different guests. Talk radio is a radio format which features discussion of topical issues. Catharines. The Phil Hendrie Show on CKTB St.

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