I see NW is going to pre-empt regular shows and do a special Super Tuesday US Primary Election show. WTF? In this day and age of 300 channel TV, CNN, Fox News, BBC as well as even the Canadian Cable news outlets, who would tune into a local yocal Canadian radio station to get US primary results and opinions.
I think in a normal US election year, the primaries wouldn't warrant that kind of special coverage. This year, an exception can be made because of the candidacies of Obama and Clinton on the one side and McCain and Romney on the other. Let's face it, whoever wins all the marbles this November is going to be tasked with cleaning up the mess Bush made over two terms and that has implications not only for the overburdened American taxpayer but his or her closest neighbour to the north and largest trading partner as well.
Still who would tune in to NW for primary coverage? and do most Canadians even care?
and I love how there is no mention of Ron Paul in some of the pre-primary coverage articles I have seen. You might say he has no chance (personally thats BS in my opinion) either way... he deserves equal coverage and mentions as much as the rest of them. I also love when he gets 2nd place in Nevada there is no MSM coverage, got to love big corps with agendas. Hopefully the kind of BS doesn't start to happen up here in Canada.
I thought it was interesting that 660News (and probably 680News in Toronto and News1130 in Vancouver) carried the President's State of the Union Address live. I don't believe many Canadians particularly care to hear something like that live and I don't think a great many people will be waiting with baited breath on every return in the results of Super Tuesday. If CKNW was heard by a large American audience, then maybe there is some merit, otherwise it seems it is one less evening a show producer has to come up with guests and topics.
What would you rather they run? Taped Adler? Maybe an in depth discussion on how we can save our children's puppies from being snatched from their arms?
The American Election is the talk of many a water cooler right now. It is a thinking person's passion. Even at Crave I am getting calls from listeners commenting on it and I'm playing bits of speeches and remixes of speeches and explaining the whole process. It is timely, it is topical, and history will be made this fall.
I thought it was interesting that 660News (and probably 680News in Toronto and News1130 in Vancouver) carried the President's State of the Union Address live.
Spiff, no, 1130 did not run it live. The station turned up the pot on the live feed for a bit, read a few highlights and then went on to local stories.
As for Super Tuesday, I don't know what 660 did, but 1130 had some stories in the morning outlining the major players, explained the system and its relevance to Canadians in the afternoon, and then picked up some of the ABC radio status reports on results in the evening. That way, there was something for someone casually interested. I suspect coverage wasn't aimed at political junkies as they would have been listening to/watching one of any number of American stations.
Home
Calendar
Search
Register
Login
Logged
Male