John Batchelor
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John Calvin Batchelor is an author and host of The John Batchelor Show radio
news magazine. Based at WABC
radio in New York for five years from early 2001 to September, 2006; the show was syndicated nationally on the ABC radio network. On October 7, 2007, Batchelor returned to radio on WABC
New York, and later to other large market stations on a weekly basis. As of Nov. 30, 2009, Batchelor was once again hosting a daily show on WABC, airing seven days a week in New York City between 9 PM and 1 AM EST, and in many major markets across the country. A podcast of the show is available at WABCradio.com.
to an Assyrian
/American family, and was raised primarily in Lower Merion Township of Montgomery County
, in Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district
. His mother and father both served in the United States Army
during World War II
; his father also served in the Korean War
. Batchelor is the eldest of five brothers. He is a 1970 graduate of Princeton University
and a 1976 graduate of Union Theological Seminary
.
http://www.emergency.com/2002/ERRI_9-1.pdf in October 2000 by the major suspect, the Saudi renegade Osama bin Laden and his gang, al Qaeda [2]. For two years, in the show, Batchelor performed the role of Republican; Alexander took the role of Democrat. They focused on international issues with a focus on Middle East-based terrorism. He described their approach as, Our model is the BBC World Service, with music and live interviews, but without English accents. Alexander quipped: We're not NPR, where they do setups to things on tape. Well, we could be NPR on drugs.
Paul Alexander left the show in December 2003 to pursue work as a playwright http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2003/09/04/the_death_and_rebirth_of_sylvia_plath/ and biographer.
on current, war-related, open-source intelligence. Aaron Klein
, Jerusalem bureau chief for WorldNetDaily, was also a regular and served as a co-host. Other regular contributors included Malcolm Hoenlein
, the executive vice president of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizationshttp://www.conferenceofpresidents.org; the New York attorney and taste-maker Ed Hayes; Larry Kudlow of CNBC's Kudlow & Company: Bill Whelan of the Hoover Institution: John Fund, Bret Stephens, Dan Henninger, Rob Pollock and Kim Strassel of the Wall Street Journal; Jim McTague of Barron's Magazine; Chuck Todd then of the Hotline, now NBC Political Director; Fiona Harvey and Martin Wolf of the Financial Times; Jodi Schneider of the Congressional Quarterly; Matt Bai and A. O. Scott of the New York Times; Katrina vanden Heuvel and Steve Cohen of The Nation
; Victor Davis Hanson, Henry Miller, and Larry Diamond of the Hoover Institution; Adrian Wooldridge, Robert Guest, and John Parker of the Economist; Monica Crowley
; as well as David Grinspoon http://lonelyplanets.net, resident expert on the planet Mars and outer space, and Robert Zimmerman, award-winning NASA observer. The program daily featured reports from journalists who also filed with the world's most respected press outlets, and the show was reliably a few days ahead of the news cycle.
When John Batchelor occasionally took a break for several evenings, the show was often hosted by Jed Babbin
, editor of Human Events
in Washington, D.C.; sometimes by the former BBC journalist John Terrett, who now works for al Jazeera
; and by Larry Kudlow of CNBC's Kudlow & Company
and WABC's Larry Kudlow Show.
Batchelor's show featured multiple guests, and shows were preceded by and interspersed with news clips and music. The show focussed on myriad topics, including politics
, the war on terror
, nuclear proliferation
, the U.N.
, Africa
n civil wars, American history
, space exploration
and even Hollywood scandals. The Jerusalem Post has an audio archive of "Batchelor and Alexander" segments from 2002 and 2003 that deal with Israel and the Middle East. http://info.jpost.com/C002/Supplements/AmericasVoices/ba_01.html
To report on breaking news, Batchelor and a small staff traveled to Israel
, Jordan
, Kazakhstan
, and Taiwan
, landing in Taipei to broadcast for the week leading up to the 2004 elections, when, on the last day of electioneering, both the president and the vice-president were shot and wounded by an unknown assailant.
WABC's manager, Phil Boyce, wrote in e-mails to listeners that ABC Radio Network simply had discontinued Batchelor's syndication, but Boyce didn't give any hint why that happened.
Batchelor indicated he would seek to return to a regular radio program in late fall of 2006, but had not returned to a full-time position as of September 2007. His first radio appearance since his departure from ABC was as a substitute host for Matt Drudge
on July 22, 2007. The show was nearly identical in format to his ABC show, including contributions from Klein and Loftus, among many other guests. He returned to fill in for Drudge on September 2, 2007.http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57436
John Batchelor was a guest on the C-SPAN
Q&A program on September 23, 2007 and indicated to host Brian Lamb
that the chances that he will return to radio are "very good." Batchelor went on to say "Well, I mean, show business, Brian. You’re number one for five years in the toughest market on the planet, you don’t go away. You don’t ever go away. I can’t get away from the fact that I did the show." http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1146
John Loftus
, a frequent contributor to Batchelor's show, now has his own radio show on the Talkline Communications Network. Batchelor has also been a co-host on Loftus' radio show. Batchelor's first appearance on the Loftus Report was met with great enthusiasm.
Batchelor returned on WABC
as the host of a weekly version of the previous show on October 7, 2007, from 7-10 PM Eastern Time. He then proceeded to host a second show as a guest host on KFI
in Los Angeles, filling the vacancy caused by the departure of Matt Drudge
, in the next three hours from 7-10 PM Pacific time. His first program featured an interview with Nick Grace of ClandestineRadio.com that broke the name of al Qaeda's extranet, Obelisk, and the news that the extranet's security tightened following a press leak in September 2007.http://pundita.blogspot.com/2007/10/back-with-bang-bicoastal-batchelor.html
In 2009, Batchelor expanded his show to Saturday and Sunday nights, from 9 PM to 1 AM, on most of his affiliates. The Saturday show focuses more on authors of history books, while the Sunday show focuses on breaking news and a wider range of topics.
On November 24, 2009, WABC announced that the Batchelor show would be also airing weeknights from
9 PM to 1 AM effective November 30.
in New York, New York. Neither Batchelor's nor Cumulus Media Networks' websites has a complete affiliate list, so this list may not display all stations that carry the show.
All times listed below are local to the market served. Not all stations broadcast the show in its entirety.
Batchelor is a rare conservative radio host who often invites liberal guests (all amiably), including Katrina vanden Heuvel
and Markos Moulitsas.
Regular segments include "Hotel California" (introduced by an instrumental version of the Eagles song
), which is, of course, a discussion of California
's current fiscal discombobulation as well as its political environment, including the gubernatorial and Senatorial races. Nunes
generally is included in the roundtable.
Zimmerman frequently comes on to talk about NASA
and the space program, preceded by the music from the Star Trek end credits. The show's last segment (c.12:55 AM EST) invariably features Al Bowlly
's Midnight, the Stars and You, ending in a brief (<30sec) valediction/good-night, sometimes with a few moments with a guest (time for one question). The singer is sometimes mistaken for Al Jolson
, as Batchelor introduces the singer simply by "here's Al," and the song dates from the time of Jolson's late career.
John Avlon
, Jeff Bliss, Gordon Chang
, Simon Constable, Taegan Goddard, Malcolm Hoenlein
, and Larry Kudlow have frequently guest-hosted
or co-hosted.
Radio
Radio is the transmission of signals through free space by modulation of electromagnetic waves with frequencies below those of visible light. Electromagnetic radiation travels by means of oscillating electromagnetic fields that pass through the air and the vacuum of space...
news magazine. Based at WABC
WABC (AM)
WABC , known as "NewsTalkRadio 77 WABC" is a radio station in New York City. Owned by the broadcasting division of Cumulus Media, the station broadcasts on a clear channel and is the flagship station of Cumulus Media Networks...
radio in New York for five years from early 2001 to September, 2006; the show was syndicated nationally on the ABC radio network. On October 7, 2007, Batchelor returned to radio on WABC
WABC (AM)
WABC , known as "NewsTalkRadio 77 WABC" is a radio station in New York City. Owned by the broadcasting division of Cumulus Media, the station broadcasts on a clear channel and is the flagship station of Cumulus Media Networks...
New York, and later to other large market stations on a weekly basis. As of Nov. 30, 2009, Batchelor was once again hosting a daily show on WABC, airing seven days a week in New York City between 9 PM and 1 AM EST, and in many major markets across the country. A podcast of the show is available at WABCradio.com.
Early years
Batchelor was born in Bryn Mawr, PennsylvaniaBryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Bryn Mawr from Welsh for "big hill") is a census-designated place in Lower Merion Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, just west of Philadelphia along Lancaster Avenue and the border with Delaware County...
to an Assyrian
Assyrian people
The Assyrian people are a distinct ethnic group whose origins lie in ancient Mesopotamia...
/American family, and was raised primarily in Lower Merion Township of Montgomery County
Montgomery County, Pennsylvania
Montgomery County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, in the United States. As of 2010, the population was 799,874, making it the third most populous county in Pennsylvania . The county seat is Norristown.The county was created on September 10, 1784, out of land originally part...
, in Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district
Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district
The 13th Congressional District of Pennsylvania is located in Southeastern Pennsylvania, covering eastern Montgomery County and Northeast Philadelphia. The district traditionally included most of Montgomery County, but was redrawn in 2002...
. His mother and father both served in the United States Army
United States Army
The United States Army is the main branch of the United States Armed Forces responsible for land-based military operations. It is the largest and oldest established branch of the U.S. military, and is one of seven U.S. uniformed services...
during World War II
World War II
World War II, or the Second World War , was a global conflict lasting from 1939 to 1945, involving most of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis...
; his father also served in the Korean War
Korean War
The Korean War was a conventional war between South Korea, supported by the United Nations, and North Korea, supported by the People's Republic of China , with military material aid from the Soviet Union...
. Batchelor is the eldest of five brothers. He is a 1970 graduate of Princeton University
Princeton University
Princeton University is a private research university located in Princeton, New Jersey, United States. The school is one of the eight universities of the Ivy League, and is one of the nine Colonial Colleges founded before the American Revolution....
and a 1976 graduate of Union Theological Seminary
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York
Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York is a preeminent independent graduate school of theology, located in Manhattan between Claremont Avenue and Broadway, 120th to 122nd Streets. The seminary was founded in 1836 under the Presbyterian Church, and is affiliated with nearby Columbia...
.
Batchelor and Alexander
John Batchelor and his original co-host, Paul Alexander, broadcast Batchelor and Alexander on WABC in New York. On September 8, 2001, John Batchelor and Paul Alexander presented a four-hour WABC show that was devoted to multiple guest interviews on the USS Cole bombingUSS Cole bombing
The USS Cole Bombing, or the USS Cole Incident, was a suicide attack against the United States Navy destroyer on October 12, 2000 while it was harbored and refueled in the Yemeni port of Aden. Seventeen American sailors were killed, and 39 were injured...
http://www.emergency.com/2002/ERRI_9-1.pdf in October 2000 by the major suspect, the Saudi renegade Osama bin Laden and his gang, al Qaeda [2]. For two years, in the show, Batchelor performed the role of Republican; Alexander took the role of Democrat. They focused on international issues with a focus on Middle East-based terrorism. He described their approach as, Our model is the BBC World Service, with music and live interviews, but without English accents. Alexander quipped: We're not NPR, where they do setups to things on tape. Well, we could be NPR on drugs.
Paul Alexander left the show in December 2003 to pursue work as a playwright http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2003/09/04/the_death_and_rebirth_of_sylvia_plath/ and biographer.
The John Batchelor Show
The John Batchelor Show was syndicated nationally in April 2003. It carried nightly (Mon-Fri) the "Loftus Report" featuring the intelligence commentator John LoftusJohn Loftus
John Joseph Loftus is an American author, former US government prosecutor and former Army intelligence officer. He is a president of The Intelligence Summit and, although he is not Jewish, a president of the Florida Holocaust Museum. Loftus also serves on the Board of Advisers to Public...
on current, war-related, open-source intelligence. Aaron Klein
Aaron Klein
Aaron Klein is an American author, Middle East correspondent, head of the Jerusalem bureau for WorldNetDaily , columnist for The Jewish Press, and a radio talk show host who, among other things, is known for interviewing middle eastern political figures, along with various leaders of terrorist...
, Jerusalem bureau chief for WorldNetDaily, was also a regular and served as a co-host. Other regular contributors included Malcolm Hoenlein
Malcolm Hoenlein
Malcolm Hoenlein is the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations since June 1986. He is the founding executive director of the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry and the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York.Born in...
, the executive vice president of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizationshttp://www.conferenceofpresidents.org; the New York attorney and taste-maker Ed Hayes; Larry Kudlow of CNBC's Kudlow & Company: Bill Whelan of the Hoover Institution: John Fund, Bret Stephens, Dan Henninger, Rob Pollock and Kim Strassel of the Wall Street Journal; Jim McTague of Barron's Magazine; Chuck Todd then of the Hotline, now NBC Political Director; Fiona Harvey and Martin Wolf of the Financial Times; Jodi Schneider of the Congressional Quarterly; Matt Bai and A. O. Scott of the New York Times; Katrina vanden Heuvel and Steve Cohen of The Nation
The Nation
The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. The periodical, devoted to politics and culture, is self-described as "the flagship of the left." Founded on July 6, 1865, It is published by The Nation Company, L.P., at 33 Irving Place, New York City.The Nation...
; Victor Davis Hanson, Henry Miller, and Larry Diamond of the Hoover Institution; Adrian Wooldridge, Robert Guest, and John Parker of the Economist; Monica Crowley
Monica Crowley
Monica Crowley is an American conservative radio and television commentator, and author based in New York City. She has her own radio show and is a regular commentator on The McLaughlin Group, a Fox News contributor, and Washington Times columnist.-Education:Crowley holds a B.A. in Political...
; as well as David Grinspoon http://lonelyplanets.net, resident expert on the planet Mars and outer space, and Robert Zimmerman, award-winning NASA observer. The program daily featured reports from journalists who also filed with the world's most respected press outlets, and the show was reliably a few days ahead of the news cycle.
When John Batchelor occasionally took a break for several evenings, the show was often hosted by Jed Babbin
Jed Babbin
Jed Babbin is a former United States Deputy Undersecretary of Defense who served during the first Bush administration in the United States, and is the author of the political book Inside the Asylum as well as Showdown and In the Words of Our Enemies....
, editor of Human Events
Human Events
Human Events is a weekly American conservative magazine. It takes its name from the first sentence of the United States Declaration of Independence...
in Washington, D.C.; sometimes by the former BBC journalist John Terrett, who now works for al Jazeera
Al Jazeera
Al Jazeera is an independent broadcaster owned by the state of Qatar through the Qatar Media Corporation and headquartered in Doha, Qatar...
; and by Larry Kudlow of CNBC's Kudlow & Company
Kudlow & Company
The Kudlow Report is a news television program about business and politics hosted by Lawrence Kudlow, that airs on the CNBC television channel at 7pm ET. The show began airing on January 26, 2009. It is a successor to Kudlow & Company, which aired from 2005 until October 2008...
and WABC's Larry Kudlow Show.
Batchelor's show featured multiple guests, and shows were preceded by and interspersed with news clips and music. The show focussed on myriad topics, including politics
Politics
Politics is a process by which groups of people make collective decisions. The term is generally applied to the art or science of running governmental or state affairs, including behavior within civil governments, but also applies to institutions, fields, and special interest groups such as the...
, the war on terror
War on Terror
The War on Terror is a term commonly applied to an international military campaign led by the United States and the United Kingdom with the support of other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as well as non-NATO countries...
, nuclear proliferation
Nuclear proliferation
Nuclear proliferation is a term now used to describe the spread of nuclear weapons, fissile material, and weapons-applicable nuclear technology and information, to nations which are not recognized as "Nuclear Weapon States" by the Treaty on the Nonproliferation of Nuclear Weapons, also known as the...
, the U.N.
United Nations
The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace...
, Africa
Africa
Africa is the world's second largest and second most populous continent, after Asia. At about 30.2 million km² including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of the Earth's total surface area and 20.4% of the total land area...
n civil wars, American history
History of the United States
The history of the United States traditionally starts with the Declaration of Independence in the year 1776, although its territory was inhabited by Native Americans since prehistoric times and then by European colonists who followed the voyages of Christopher Columbus starting in 1492. The...
, space exploration
Space exploration
Space exploration is the use of space technology to explore outer space. Physical exploration of space is conducted both by human spaceflights and by robotic spacecraft....
and even Hollywood scandals. The Jerusalem Post has an audio archive of "Batchelor and Alexander" segments from 2002 and 2003 that deal with Israel and the Middle East. http://info.jpost.com/C002/Supplements/AmericasVoices/ba_01.html
To report on breaking news, Batchelor and a small staff traveled to Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
, Jordan
Jordan
Jordan , officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan , Al-Mamlaka al-Urduniyya al-Hashemiyya) is a kingdom on the East Bank of the River Jordan. The country borders Saudi Arabia to the east and south-east, Iraq to the north-east, Syria to the north and the West Bank and Israel to the west, sharing...
, Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan
Kazakhstan , officially the Republic of Kazakhstan, is a transcontinental country in Central Asia and Eastern Europe. Ranked as the ninth largest country in the world, it is also the world's largest landlocked country; its territory of is greater than Western Europe...
, and Taiwan
Taiwan
Taiwan , also known, especially in the past, as Formosa , is the largest island of the same-named island group of East Asia in the western Pacific Ocean and located off the southeastern coast of mainland China. The island forms over 99% of the current territory of the Republic of China following...
, landing in Taipei to broadcast for the week leading up to the 2004 elections, when, on the last day of electioneering, both the president and the vice-president were shot and wounded by an unknown assailant.
Show cancellation and subsequent return
On Monday, August 25, 2006, Batchelor announced on air that his last show on ABC Radio Network would be on Friday, September 1.http://www.johnbatchelorshow.com/article.cfm?id=4057WABC's manager, Phil Boyce, wrote in e-mails to listeners that ABC Radio Network simply had discontinued Batchelor's syndication, but Boyce didn't give any hint why that happened.
Batchelor indicated he would seek to return to a regular radio program in late fall of 2006, but had not returned to a full-time position as of September 2007. His first radio appearance since his departure from ABC was as a substitute host for Matt Drudge
Matt Drudge
Matthew Nathan Drudge is the American creator and editor of the Drudge Report, a news aggregation website. Drudge is self-described as being conservative and populist. Drudge has also authored a book and hosted a radio show and a television show.-Early years:Matthew Drudge was raised in Takoma...
on July 22, 2007. The show was nearly identical in format to his ABC show, including contributions from Klein and Loftus, among many other guests. He returned to fill in for Drudge on September 2, 2007.http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=57436
John Batchelor was a guest on the C-SPAN
C-SPAN
C-SPAN , an acronym for Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network, is an American cable television network that offers coverage of federal government proceedings and other public affairs programming via its three television channels , one radio station and a group of websites that provide streaming...
Q&A program on September 23, 2007 and indicated to host Brian Lamb
Brian Lamb
Brian Patrick Lamb is the founder and chief executive officer of C-SPAN, a television network dedicated to coverage of government proceedings and public affairs. Born and raised in Lafayette, Indiana, Lamb earned a degree from Purdue University before joining the United States Navy...
that the chances that he will return to radio are "very good." Batchelor went on to say "Well, I mean, show business, Brian. You’re number one for five years in the toughest market on the planet, you don’t go away. You don’t ever go away. I can’t get away from the fact that I did the show." http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1146
John Loftus
John Loftus
John Joseph Loftus is an American author, former US government prosecutor and former Army intelligence officer. He is a president of The Intelligence Summit and, although he is not Jewish, a president of the Florida Holocaust Museum. Loftus also serves on the Board of Advisers to Public...
, a frequent contributor to Batchelor's show, now has his own radio show on the Talkline Communications Network. Batchelor has also been a co-host on Loftus' radio show. Batchelor's first appearance on the Loftus Report was met with great enthusiasm.
Batchelor returned on WABC
WABC (AM)
WABC , known as "NewsTalkRadio 77 WABC" is a radio station in New York City. Owned by the broadcasting division of Cumulus Media, the station broadcasts on a clear channel and is the flagship station of Cumulus Media Networks...
as the host of a weekly version of the previous show on October 7, 2007, from 7-10 PM Eastern Time. He then proceeded to host a second show as a guest host on KFI
KFI
KFI is an AM radio station in Los Angeles, California. It received its license to operate on March 31, 1922 and began operating on April 16, 1922 as one of the United States' first high-powered, "clear-channel" stations...
in Los Angeles, filling the vacancy caused by the departure of Matt Drudge
Matt Drudge
Matthew Nathan Drudge is the American creator and editor of the Drudge Report, a news aggregation website. Drudge is self-described as being conservative and populist. Drudge has also authored a book and hosted a radio show and a television show.-Early years:Matthew Drudge was raised in Takoma...
, in the next three hours from 7-10 PM Pacific time. His first program featured an interview with Nick Grace of ClandestineRadio.com that broke the name of al Qaeda's extranet, Obelisk, and the news that the extranet's security tightened following a press leak in September 2007.http://pundita.blogspot.com/2007/10/back-with-bang-bicoastal-batchelor.html
In 2009, Batchelor expanded his show to Saturday and Sunday nights, from 9 PM to 1 AM, on most of his affiliates. The Saturday show focuses more on authors of history books, while the Sunday show focuses on breaking news and a wider range of topics.
On November 24, 2009, WABC announced that the Batchelor show would be also airing weeknights from
9 PM to 1 AM effective November 30.
Affiliates
The John Batchelor Show is broadcast every day from 9 PM to 1 AM Eastern time, 6 PM to 10 PM Pacific time. It is broadcast on a network of affiliates, and originates from 77 WABCWABC (AM)
WABC , known as "NewsTalkRadio 77 WABC" is a radio station in New York City. Owned by the broadcasting division of Cumulus Media, the station broadcasts on a clear channel and is the flagship station of Cumulus Media Networks...
in New York, New York. Neither Batchelor's nor Cumulus Media Networks' websites has a complete affiliate list, so this list may not display all stations that carry the show.
All times listed below are local to the market served. Not all stations broadcast the show in its entirety.
| Calls | Freq. | Format | Market/Market Rank | Weeknights | Saturday | Sunday | Group Owner |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Satellite Stations | |||||||
| XM XM Satellite Radio XM Satellite Radio is one of two satellite radio services in the United States and Canada, operated by Sirius XM Radio. It provides pay-for-service radio, analogous to cable television. Its service includes 73 different music channels, 39 news, sports, talk and entertainment channels, 21 regional... |
166 America's Talk America's Talk is a news and talk radio channel on XM Satellite Radio, launched on 2007-11-19 on channel 158 and moved to 166 on 2011-05-04. Much like its sister talk channel XM Talk 168, it is a general news/talk focused channel. It was programmed by Sean Compton until 2008-04-01, in Cincinnati,... |
Talk | United States United States The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district... |
No | 9PM-1AM ET |
9PM-1AM ET |
Clear Channel Communications Clear Channel Communications Clear Channel Communications, Inc. is an American media conglomerate company headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. It was founded in 1972 by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs, and was taken private by Bain Capital LLC and Thomas H. Lee Partners LP in a leveraged buyout in 2008... |
| Terrestrial Stations | |||||||
| WABC WABC (AM) WABC , known as "NewsTalkRadio 77 WABC" is a radio station in New York City. Owned by the broadcasting division of Cumulus Media, the station broadcasts on a clear channel and is the flagship station of Cumulus Media Networks... |
770 kHz | News/Talk | New York City, NY / 1 | 9PM-1AM |
9PM-1AM |
9PM-1AM |
Cumulus Media Cumulus Media Cumulus Media, Inc. is the second largest Owner and Operator of AM and FM radio stations in the United States, behind Clear Channel Communications, operating 570 stations in 150 markets as of September 16, 2011. The company also owns Cumulus Media Networks... |
| KABC KABC (AM) KABC is a Los Angeles radio station, and a West Coast flagship station for the Cumulus Media company. A pioneer of the talk radio format, the station went "all-talk" in 1960 and was one of the first stations to do so... |
790 kHz | News/Talk | Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles, California Los Angeles , with a population at the 2010 United States Census of 3,792,621, is the most populous city in California, USA and the second most populous in the United States, after New York City. It has an area of , and is located in Southern California... / 2 |
1AM-3AM (Friday show omitted) |
12AM-3AM |
1AM-3AM |
Cumulus Media |
| WLS WLS (AM) WLS is a Chicago clear-channel AM station on 890 kHz. It uses C-QUAM AM stereo and transmits with 50,000 watts from transmitter and towers on the south edge of Tinley Park, Illinois.... |
890 kHz | News/Talk | Chicago, IL / 3 | No | 10PM-12AM | No | Cumulus Media |
| KSFO KSFO (AM) KSFO is a conservative talk radio station in San Francisco, California, USA, broadcasting on 560 kHz AM. It is owned by Cumulus Media.The content of the KSFO's talk programming is solidly conservative, which is in stark contrast to the rather liberal San Francisco area, with show hosts such as Rush... |
560 kHz | News/Talk | San Francisco, CA San Francisco, California San Francisco , officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the financial, cultural, and transportation center of the San Francisco Bay Area, a region of 7.15 million people which includes San Jose and Oakland... / 4 |
6PM-8PM | No | 7PM-10PM | Cumulus Media |
| KXL (FM) | 101.1 MHz | News/Talk | Portland, Oregon Portland, Oregon Portland is a city located in the Pacific Northwest, near the confluence of the Willamette and Columbia rivers in the U.S. state of Oregon. As of the 2010 Census, it had a population of 583,776, making it the 29th most populous city in the United States... / 50 |
7PM-9PM | No | No | Alpha Broadcasting |
| WBAP | 820 kHz | News/Talk | Dallas Dallas, Texas Dallas is the third-largest city in Texas and the ninth-largest in the United States. The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex is the largest metropolitan area in the South and fourth-largest metropolitan area in the United States... -Ft. Worth, Texas / 5 |
11PM-12AM | No | No | Cumulus Media |
| WMAL | 630 kHz | News/Talk | Washington, DC / 9 | 9PM-12AM | 10PM-1AM | 10PM-1AM | Cumulus Media |
| WTKK WTKK WTKK is a New England commercial talk radio station, first broadcast out of Boston on 96.9 FM beginning in 1999. It can be heard in eastern Massachusetts, the northernmost area of Rhode Island, southern New Hampshire, and southern Maine... |
96.9 MHz | Talk | Boston, MA / 10 | 9PM-1AM | 9PM-1AM | 9PM-1AM | Greater Media Greater Media Greater Media, Inc., known as Greater Media, is an American media company that specializes in radio stations. The markets where they own radio stations include Boston, Detroit, Philadelphia, Charlotte, and the state of New Jersey... |
| WBT WBT (AM) WBT is a radio station in Charlotte, North Carolina, broadcasting on the AM dial at 1110 kHz. A 50,000-watt clear-channel station, it can be heard across most of the eastern half of North America at night. It simulcasts on WBT-FM, at 99.3 MHz in Chester, South Carolina. It is owned by Greater... |
1110 kHz | Talk | Charlotte, NC Charlotte, North Carolina Charlotte is the largest city in the U.S. state of North Carolina and the seat of Mecklenburg County. In 2010, Charlotte's population according to the US Census Bureau was 731,424, making it the 17th largest city in the United States based on population. The Charlotte metropolitan area had a 2009... -Gastonia, NC Gastonia, North Carolina Gastonia is the largest city and county seat of Gaston County, North Carolina, United States. It is also the third largest suburb of the Charlotte Area, behind Concord and Rock Hill. The population was 71,226 as of Gastonia is the largest city and county seat of Gaston County, North Carolina,... -Rock Hill, SC Rock Hill, South Carolina Rock Hill is the largest city in York County, South Carolina and the fourth-largest city in the state. It is also the third-largest city of the Charlotte metropolitan area, behind Charlotte and Concord, North Carolina. The population was 71,459 as of . Rock Hill has undergone rapid growth between... / 24 |
No | 9PM-1AM |
No | Greater Media |
| WBT-FM | 99.3 MHz | ||||||
| WPRV | 790 kHz | Talk/Business | Providence Providence, Rhode Island Providence is the capital and most populous city of Rhode Island and was one of the first cities established in the United States. Located in Providence County, it is the third largest city in the New England region... -Warwick Warwick, Rhode Island Warwick is a city in Kent County, Rhode Island, United States. It is the second largest city in the state, with a population of 82,672 at the 2010 census. Its mayor has been Scott Avedisian since 2000... -Pawtucket, RI Pawtucket, Rhode Island Pawtucket is a city in Providence County, Rhode Island, United States. The population was 71,148 at the 2010 census. It is the fourth largest city in the state.-History:... / 41 |
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| KNSS | 1330 kHz | News/Talk | Wichita, KS Wichita, Kansas Wichita is the largest city in the U.S. state of Kansas.As of the 2010 census, the city population was 382,368. Located in south-central Kansas on the Arkansas River, Wichita is the county seat of Sedgwick County and the principal city of the Wichita metropolitan area... / 98 |
11PM-12AM | 9PM-12AM | 8PM-9PM | Entercom Communications Entercom Communications Entercom Communications Corporation is the fourth-largest broadcasting company in the United States. As of November 2009, Entercom operates 110 radio stations in 23 markets across the United States.... |
| WPAY WPAY (AM) WNKE is a radio station licensed to New Boston, Ohio. Its original call letters were a carryover from its former sister station WPAY , which signed on in 1933 as a country yodeling and country music station, from which the call letters were derived... |
1400 kHz | News/Talk | Portsmouth, Ohio Portsmouth, Ohio Portsmouth is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Scioto County. The municipality is located on the northern banks of the Ohio River and east of the Scioto River in Southern Ohio. The population was 20,226 at the 2010 census.-Foundation:... / 117 |
10PM-12AM | No | No | WPAY Inc. |
| WWXL WWXL WWXL is a radio station licensed to Manchester, Kentucky, broadcasting with a full-time signal of 1,000 watts. The station can be heard in Clay County and in parts of Laurel, Knox, Leslie and Jackson Counties.... |
1450 kHz | Talk | Manchester, Kentucky Manchester, Kentucky As of the census of 2000, there were 1,738 people, 778 households, and 455 families residing in the city. The population density was 1,148.4 people per square mile . There were 844 housing units at an average density of 557.7 per square mile... / NA |
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No | No | Juanita Nolan |
| KSLI KSLI (AM) KSLI is an AM Classic Country radio station that serves the Abilene, Texas, area. The station is under ownership of Townsquare Media.On Monday, March 1, 2010, the News/Talk format on KSLI moved to sister station KYYW-AM... |
1280 kHz | News/Talk | Abilene, TX Abilene, Texas Abilene is a city in Taylor and Jones counties in west central Texas. The population was 117,063 at the 2010 census. It is the principal city of the Abilene Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a 2006 estimated population of 158,063. It is the county seat of Taylor County... / 245 |
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No | No | GAP Broadcasting |
| WTRW | 94.3 MHz | Talk | Carbondale (Scranton), PA Carbondale, Pennsylvania Carbondale is a city in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania, United States. Carbondale is located approximately 15 miles due northeast of the city of Scranton in Northeastern Pennsylvania... / 70 |
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Bold Gold Media Group, LP |
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Frequent Guests
- John AvlonJohn AvlonJohn Phillips Avlon is senior columnist for Newsweek and the Daily Beast as well as a CNN contributor. He is also the author of Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics and Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America...
(CNNCNNCable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
; author: WingnutsWingNutsWingNuts: Temporal Navigator is a shooter game by Freeverse Software. Players navigate an airplane around a two-dimensional map while avoiding hazards and picking up "goodies" or bonuses...
) - Jeff Bliss (The Bliss Index)
- John R. BoltonJohn R. BoltonJohn Robert Bolton is an American lawyer and diplomat who has served in several Republican presidential administrations. He served as the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations from August 2005 until December 2006 on a recess appointment...
(former United States Ambassador to the United NationsUnited States Ambassador to the United NationsThe United States Ambassador to the United Nations is the leader of the U.S. delegation, the U.S. Mission to the United Nations. The position is more formally known as the "Permanent Representative of the United States of America to the United Nations, with the rank and status of Ambassador...
; American Enterprise InstituteAmerican Enterprise InstituteThe American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research is a conservative think tank founded in 1943. Its stated mission is "to defend the principles and improve the institutions of American freedom and democratic capitalism—limited government, private enterprise, individual liberty and...
) - Gordon G. ChangGordon G. ChangGordon G. Chang is a lawyer and author, best known for his book The Coming Collapse of China, in which he argued that the hidden non-performing loans of the "Big Four" Chinese State banks would likely bring down China's financial system and its communist government and China would collapse in 2006...
(Forbes.com; noted anti-Communist Chinese) - Simon Constable (Marketwatch.com)
- David Drucker (Roll CallRoll CallRoll Call is a newspaper published in Washington, D.C., United States, from Monday to Thursday when the United States Congress is in session and on Mondays only during recess. Roll Call reports news of legislative and political maneuverings on Capitol Hill, as well as political coverage of...
) - John FundJohn FundJohn H. Fund is an American political journalist and conservative columnist. Currently a senior editor of The American Spectator,...
(The Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street JournalThe Wall Street Journal is an American English-language international daily newspaper. It is published in New York City by Dow Jones & Company, a division of News Corporation, along with the Asian and European editions of the Journal....
) - Charlie GasparinoCharlie GasparinoCharles Gasparino is a senior correspondent for the Fox Business Network, where he reports on major developments in the world of finance and politics, as well as a blogger, occasional radio host, New York Times bestselling author, and print journalist. He lives and works in New York City...
(appears less often than before) - Taegan Goddard (Political WirePolitical WirePolitical Wire is a political blog based in the United States. It was founded in 1999 and published by Taegan D. Goddard , a former policy adviser to a U.S...
) - Malcolm HoenleinMalcolm HoenleinMalcolm Hoenlein is the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations since June 1986. He is the founding executive director of the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry and the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York.Born in...
(Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations) - Larry JohnsonLarry C. JohnsonLarry C. Johnson is a former analyst at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, who moved subsequently in 1989 to the U.S. Department of State, where he served four years as the deputy director for transportation security, antiterrorism assistance training, and special operations in the State...
(No QuarterNo QuarterNo quarter is when a victor shows no clemency or mercy and refuses to spare the life in return for the unconditional surrender of a vanquished opponent.No quarter may also refer to:*"No Quarter" , a Led Zeppelin song...
blog) - Larry Kudlow (CNBC; late Reagan AdministrationReagan AdministrationThe United States presidency of Ronald Reagan, also known as the Reagan administration, was a Republican administration headed by Ronald Reagan from January 20, 1981, to January 20, 1989....
) - Thaddeus McCotter (R-11th MichiganMichigan's 11th congressional districtMichigan's 11th congressional district is a United States Congressional District located just northwest of Detroit, consisting of northwestern Wayne and southwestern Oakland counties...
. McCotter has appeared less frequently recently) - Marc Morano (Climate Depot)
- Devin NunesDevin NunesDevin Nunes is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district, located in the San Joaquin Valley, includes all of Tulare County, as well as much of eastern Fresno County. He is also the author of the book Restoring the Republic, published by...
(R-21st CaliforniaCalifornia's 21st congressional districtCalifornia's 21st congressional district is a congressional district in the U.S. state of California that covers all of Tulare County and the eastern half of Fresno County.The district is currently represented by Republican Devin Nunes.-Demographics:...
) - Arif Rafiq (Pakistan Policy Blog)
- Bill RoggioBill RoggioBill Roggio is an American commentator on military affairs.Roggio is notable for having his opinions quoted, or criticized, by a variety of newspapers and broadcasters.Roggio is currently the managing editor of The Long War Journal....
(Long War Journal) - John Tamny (RealClearPoliticsRealClearPoliticsRealClearPolitics is a political news and polling data aggregator based in Chicago, Illinois. The site's founders say their goal is to give readers "ideological diversity." They have described themselves as frustrated with what they perceive as anti-conservative, anti-Christian media bias, and...
) - Bob Zimmerman (author: Leaving Earth)
- Salena Zito (Pittsburgh Tribune-ReviewPittsburgh Tribune-ReviewThe Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, also known as "the Trib," is the second largest daily newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States...
)
Batchelor is a rare conservative radio host who often invites liberal guests (all amiably), including Katrina vanden Heuvel
Katrina vanden Heuvel
Katrina vanden Heuvel is the editor, publisher, and part-owner of the magazine The Nation. She has been the magazine's editor since 1995. She is a frequent guest on numerous television programs...
and Markos Moulitsas.
Regular segments include "Hotel California" (introduced by an instrumental version of the Eagles song
Hotel California (song)
"Hotel California" is the title song from the Eagles' album of the same name and was released as a single in February 1977. It is one of the best-known songs of the album-oriented rock era. Writing credits for the song are shared by Don Felder, Don Henley and Glenn Frey...
), which is, of course, a discussion of California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
's current fiscal discombobulation as well as its political environment, including the gubernatorial and Senatorial races. Nunes
Devin Nunes
Devin Nunes is the U.S. Representative for , serving since 2003. He is a member of the Republican Party. The district, located in the San Joaquin Valley, includes all of Tulare County, as well as much of eastern Fresno County. He is also the author of the book Restoring the Republic, published by...
generally is included in the roundtable.
Zimmerman frequently comes on to talk about NASA
NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian space program and for aeronautics and aerospace research...
and the space program, preceded by the music from the Star Trek end credits. The show's last segment (c.12:55 AM EST) invariably features Al Bowlly
Al Bowlly
Albert Allick Bowlly was a Southern-African singer, songwriter, composer and band leader, who became a popular Jazz crooner during the 1930s in the United Kingdom and later, in the United States of America. He recorded more than 1,000 records between 1927 and 1941...
's Midnight, the Stars and You, ending in a brief (<30sec) valediction/good-night, sometimes with a few moments with a guest (time for one question). The singer is sometimes mistaken for Al Jolson
Al Jolson
Al Jolson was an American singer, comedian and actor. In his heyday, he was dubbed "The World's Greatest Entertainer"....
, as Batchelor introduces the singer simply by "here's Al," and the song dates from the time of Jolson's late career.
John Avlon
John Avlon
John Phillips Avlon is senior columnist for Newsweek and the Daily Beast as well as a CNN contributor. He is also the author of Independent Nation: How Centrists Can Change American Politics and Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe is Hijacking America...
, Jeff Bliss, Gordon Chang
Gordon Chang
Gordon Chang may refer to:* Gordon G. Chang, author* Gordon H. Chang, professor at Stanford University...
, Simon Constable, Taegan Goddard, Malcolm Hoenlein
Malcolm Hoenlein
Malcolm Hoenlein is the executive vice chairman of the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations since June 1986. He is the founding executive director of the Greater New York Conference on Soviet Jewry and the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York.Born in...
, and Larry Kudlow have frequently guest-hosted
Guest host
A guest host is a host, usually of a talk show, that substitutes for the regular host if they are, for example, ill or have other commitments...
or co-hosted.