Quote:Over 170 television stations will start playing the Star-Spangled Banner at the beginning of their daily broadcasts.

Nexstar Media Group announced on Thursday a partnership with Broadcast Music Inc. and Belmont University's Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business to air the national anthem, which will be performed by different emerging singers.

The singing of the anthem across Nexstar's 171 stations in 100 markets will begin on Labor Day, Sept. 2.

"This unique collaboration supports higher education in business for the music and entertainment industry, while providing aspiring professional artists and songwriters a national distribution platform to showcase their respective talents," Tim Busch, President of Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc., according to CBS 17. "We look forward to returning the time-honored tradition of including the National Anthem in our stations’ broadcasts with this new partnership.”

The first group to perform the anthem for its debut will be Brian Sutherland, Kirsten Kelly, and 2018 American Idol contestant Julia Cole.

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This used to be done on all tv and radio stations back in the day.


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(08-31-2019 05:41 PM)Jjoey52 Wrote:  This used to be done on all tv and radio stations back in the day.


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They used to be done at the end too. In those days most stations signed off earlier than now.

(08-31-2019 06:20 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  

(08-31-2019 05:41 PM)Jjoey52 Wrote:  This used to be done on all tv and radio stations back in the day.


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They used to be done at the end too. In those days most stations signed off earlier than now.

"ain' found no way to kill me yet"

"eyes burn with stingin' sweat"

some still rise with the rooster, yah...





it's too sad how divided our republic has become relative to the strife absorbed along the trodden path...

I have zero sympathy for those that ignore or ponder their 'why' mechanism...

#justmovemotherfkr

(08-31-2019 06:20 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  

(08-31-2019 05:41 PM)Jjoey52 Wrote:  This used to be done on all tv and radio stations back in the day.


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They used to be done at the end too. In those days most stations signed off earlier than now.

Yeah, the signoff would be the star spangled banner at 2 or 3 am.

(08-31-2019 06:50 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(08-31-2019 06:20 PM)olliebaba Wrote:  

(08-31-2019 05:41 PM)Jjoey52 Wrote:  This used to be done on all tv and radio stations back in the day.


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They used to be done at the end too. In those days most stations signed off earlier than now.

Yeah, the signoff would be the star spangled banner at 2 or 3 am.

Earlier than that even. I remember NBC singing off right after Carson on the Tonight Show. The good ol days.

Radio station here, 700 WLW, plays the Anthem everyday at noon and has for as long as I can remember.

(09-01-2019 02:04 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  Radio station here, 700 WLW, plays the Anthem everyday at noon and has for as long as I can remember.

50,000 Watts. Remember many a time listening to the Reds on WLW in Houston. You could get it in the days of analog dials. Lot tougher with digital. Even listened to Al Michaels' famous call of game 5 of the NLCS in '72 vs. the Pirates. "PENNANTS ON SECOND!!!! PENNANTS ON SECOND!!!!" "PENNANTS ON THIRD!!!! PENNANTS ON THIRD!!!!" For years, I could recite every pitch of the bottom of the ninth (Reds scored two runs in the 9th to win 3-2-it was a Bench HR to tie, Perez single-rookie George Foster pinch running, rookie Ken Griffey Sr. infield single, wild pitch, wild pitch).

(09-01-2019 08:10 PM)bullet Wrote:  

(09-01-2019 02:04 PM)SuperFlyBCat Wrote:  Radio station here, 700 WLW, plays the Anthem everyday at noon and has for as long as I can remember.

50,000 Watts. Remember many a time listening to the Reds on WLW in Houston. You could get it in the days of analog dials. Lot tougher with digital. Even listened to Al Michaels' famous call of game 5 of the NLCS in '72 vs. the Pirates. "PENNANTS ON SECOND!!!! PENNANTS ON SECOND!!!!" "PENNANTS ON THIRD!!!! PENNANTS ON THIRD!!!!" For years, I could recite every pitch of the bottom of the ninth (Reds scored two runs in the 9th to win 3-2-it was a Bench HR to tie, Perez single-rookie George Foster pinch running, rookie Ken Griffey Sr. infield single, wild pitch, wild pitch).

When I was a kid my Dad took me to large lake in Tennessee where we stayed on a houseboat. 700 was clear as a bell for getting Reds games. Powel Crosley was largely responsible for creating modern radio broadcasts and mass production of radios.