Articles Tagged with #radio
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Advertising Now
There Will Be Waitresses
Radio advertising has gotten ridiculous—incendiary spots for monster-truck rallies and ladies’ nights at clubs. But surely the most appalling ads are for brunch.
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Personal Essays
Learning to Talk
When a voiceover artist temporarily loses the use of her primary asset, the struggle back to speaking unearths what’s gone unsaid for too long.
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Late Night Sports Radio
Better in the Dark
Even as a kid I noticed that the radio announcers—Jack Buck and former coach Hank Stram—were several leagues superior to their counterparts on TV. Buck and...
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Late Night Sports Radio
Homage to Terrence Malick, Part Two
This morning I went to the Old Town Country Kitchen in Bath to get something to eat. Bath has a population of 268. It was the first incorporated town in North...
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Late Night Sports Radio
Whose Fantasy Is This, Anyway?
That’s not my experience. In my home region of Raleigh-Durham, college basketball and college football are the main topics of discussion and in my transistor-delivered sports talk home...
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Late Night Sports Radio
Everyone’s Relative
The UNC Tar Heels have fired football coach Butch Davis and the airwaves are lit up. 11:57 p.m. I’m sitting in my home office listening to WFAN...
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Late Night Sports Radio
Voices in the Country
I’m in rural Chatham County, NC, with three acres, heavy woods with eight kinds of trees, and a creek. Crickets, cicadas, and tree frogs are chiming—the...
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Late Night Sports Radio
The Best Viola Player in the New York Phil Is a Bum
It’s 3:43 a.m. and I’m listening to the overnight call-in program on WFAN sports radio out of New York, 660 on the AM dial. The station&rsquo...
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Personal Essays
Breakfast With the Beeb
Sounds can take us home—even when that home belongs to someone else, and the sounds are of obscure gardening comedy.
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Opinions
A Modest British American
When America is so despised around the world, it is too bad we’ve lost one of our best ambassadors. Our correspondent attends a memorial service for Alistair Cooke in Westminster Abbey and sees the 20th century’s greatest radio broadcaster remembered among the famous and the great.
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Opinions
Reading With the Enemy
Looking for a challenge and a little affirmation, our writer tests his die-hard liberal beliefs and goes on an all-conservative-media diet for one month. Life on the Right side of the dial doesn’t turn out the way he expected.
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Spoofs & Satire
The NPR Blooper Reel
Hearing about Howard Stern and a bevy of strippers is no big surprise for the radio-savvy, but David Brancaccio and a goat getting clinical? Here are the clips not included in your regular broadcast.