XM Satellite Radio and National Press Club Present New Program
From the press release available at U.S. Newswire:
XM Satellite Radio, the nation’s leading satellite radio provider, and the National Press Club today announced the launch of a weekly news and current events program. “FROM THE NATIONAL PRESS CLUB” will feature broadcasts from international and national guest speakers, high- profile press conferences and other newsworthy events taking place at the National Press Club. The hour-long show will debut in its regular weekly timeslot on Saturday, July 1 at 9 p.m. ET (6 p.m. PT) on XM Public Radio (XM channel 133).
Having recently noted in this space that XMPR is getting a little stale, this is at least a little good news even if it is relegated to Saturday evening.
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August 2nd, 2008 at 10:58 am
[…] And even pre-merger the programming, at least on the one I usually listen to, XMPR Channel 133, has been going to hades. Changes seem to be made for no good reason whatsoever; a few years ago, XM associated itself with the National Press Club to begin a series called From the National Press Club, originally broadcast on XM Public Radio at a reasonable hour but eventually relagated to 11:00pm Saturday evenings. Understand, for those of us with a Nexus, Inno, Helix, or the ability to hook any XM radio into a recording device (a violation of your Terms of Service, but nevermind that now), that didn’t matter. Anyway, XMPR suddenly, a few weeks ago, unceremoniously dumped the show in favor of Selected Shorts (yeah, there’s a replacement for a news program), a program that actually belongs more on the new-and-not-so-improved Sonic Theater channel (see earlier rant). The folks at the National Press Club are still producing the program, but it’s “moved” (or more accurately, dumped) into the POTUS 08 channel (the channel where, when they have nothing to say, they keep saying it over and over all day long) at 6:00 AM Sunday morning (to quote Arthur Dent, “Ever thought of going into advertising?”). […]