http://blogs.oldradio.net/archives/2006/06/28/xm-satellite-radio-and-national-press-club-present-new-program/ Ramblings of an Old Man on Old-Time and Contemporary Radio, Television, the Arts, and the News; includes OTR Podcast Sat, 19 May 2012 19:51:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.4 http://blogs.oldradio.net/archives/2006/06/28/xm-satellite-radio-and-national-press-club-present-new-program/#comment-7611 Sat, 02 Aug 2008 14:58:42 +0000 http://blogs.oldradio.net/archives/2006/06/28/xm-satellite-radio-and-national-press-club-present-new-program/#comment-7611 [...] 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?”). [...] […] 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?”). […]

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