President Obama observed, " If media is operating basically as a talk radio format, then that's one thing, and if it's operating as a news outlet, then that's another ".

Morton Downey, Jr. ( December 9, 1932 – March 12, 2001 ) was an American singer, songwriter and later a television talk show host of the 1980s who pioneered the " trash TV " format on his program The Morton Downey Jr. Show.

Freeform radio is particularly popular as a college radio format ; offshoots include the recent ( and somewhat controversial, due to its lack of on-air personalities ) eclectic-pop format known as variety hits, which plays a wide assortment of mostly top-40 music from a span of several decades ; and podcast radio, a mostly talk format pioneered by Infinity Broadcasting's KYOU station in California and Adam Curry's Podcast show on Sirius Satellite Radio.

* Progressive talk radio, a talk radio format devoted to expressing liberal or progressive viewpoints of issues

His talk show began in 1984 at Sacramento radio station KFBK, featuring his ongoing format of political commentary and listener calls.

Limbaugh's unprecedented success is illustrated by Fresno, California's then number-one radio station, KMJ " news-talk radio ," a typical example of how the talk radio format was changed nation wide.

" Hot talk ", also called " FM talk " or " shock talk ", is a talk radio format geared predominantly to a male demographic between the ages of 18-49.

Many BBC Local Radio stations and some commercial stations offer a talk format, for example, BBC London, the BBC's flagship local station.

Other notable commercial talk stations include London's LBC which pioneered the newstalk format in Europe.

Traditionally, politically driven talk radio from the United States does not air on Canadian stations, with a few scattered exceptions ( e. g. the now-defunct CFBN, which carried political programming such as the Glenn Beck Program and Dennis Miller, and the also-discontinued talk format of CHAM, which carried Miller ).

In New Zealand, as in Australia, the talk radio format is popularly known as talkback radio.

The major radio networks broadcasting in the talk radio format are Newstalk ZB and Radio Live.

Their sports sister networks, Radio Sport and LiveSport also largely broadcast in talk format.

The operator then un-mutes the radio and answers the call then can talk in a regular conversation or negotiates a data link using voice or the ALE built-in short text message format.

Prior to the launch of its HD feed in 2004, some sitcoms and drama series were presented in this format, but now reality, talk, and game shows ( American Idol being the lone exception, as it is presented in High Definition ) are only presented in the enhanced definition widescreen mode.

The KNOW call letters and intellectual unit, including the NPR news and talk format, moved to KSJN's old frequency of 91. 1.

Allen pioneered the format of late night network TV talk shows, originating such talk show staples as an opening monologue, celebrity interviews, audience participation, and comedy bits in which cameras were taken outside the studio, as well as music, although the series ' popularity was cemented by second host Jack Paar, who took over after Allen had left and the show had ceased to exist.

However, the British weathered some of his vociferous talk and Dr. Banda gradually settled for a long slog by opening a medical surgery in Limbe where, to thank John Kadzamira ( one of the main organizers of the Harare NAC Branch ), Dr. Banda dutifully took in Cecilia Kadzamira ( a newly trained nurse from Salisbury Hospital ) as his first nursing staff member!

In 192, there was some talk among the coalition of appointing Liu Yu, an imperial relative, as emperor, and gradually its members began to fall out.

Morning talk shows gradually replaced earlier forms of programming-there were a plethora of morning game shows during the 1960s and early to mid-1970s, and some stations formerly showed a morning movie in the time slot that many talk shows now occupy.

They gradually stripped off the blackface makeup during live 1929 performances while continuing to talk in dialect.

After Allen moved to CBS Radio's KNX in Los Angeles, his music-and-talk half-hour format gradually changed to include more talk on a full-hour, late-night show, boosting his popularity and creating standing-room-only studio audiences.

Lefty was gradually removed from the American version of the show after concerns were raised by adult viewers who were concerned that he encouraged children to talk to strangers, although the validity of this claim is questioned.

From 1983 to about 1985, WOR gradually stopped playing music altogether, evolving into its current talk format.

In Rome he ran into Caraccioli-a " lewd Priest " who over the course of long voyages with little to do but talk, gradually converted Misson and a sizeable portion of the rest of the crew to his way of thinking:

As time went on, cartoons, such as The Wacky World of Tex Avery, Pokémon, and RoboCop: Alpha Commando disappeared gradually and more first run reality and talk shows would be added.

Dayparts gradually changed from music to talk and by 1995, the conversion to news-talk was complete.

But usage changed, and it gradually became common to talk of the 1st indiction, the 2nd indiction, and so on.

By the mid-1980s, WHDH was moving toward more of a talk format and in 1987 dropped music abruptly ; although the station had been playing more music than WBZ, that station would gradually phase out music over the next few more years.

In the late 1990s, WTTO gradually moved away from movies, classic sitcoms, and cartoons to more talk / reality shows, court shows, as well as recent sitcoms ( which they ran all along ).

The soldier and Ian begin to talk, and it is gradually revealed that the hotel is located in the midst of a brutal war.

By 1997, however, the station began mixing in more talk and reality shows, with older shows being gradually phased out.

While the UPN affiliation did not result in immediate changes to the rest of its non-primetime lineup, in the late 1990s, WSBK gradually added more talk and reality shows to the lineup.

The old sitcoms and cartoons were gradually replaced with more recent sitcoms, talk shows, game shows, court shows, and reality shows.

By January 1995, the cartoons were removed from the schedule ( outside of those provided by CBS ), and then the station gradually added more newscasts, talk and reality shows, with the sitcoms being phased out and moved to KTVK, KUTP ( channel 45 ), and upstart KASW ( channel 61 ).

The music was gradually phased out by the early 1990s, when the format was changed to all news / talk.

Daytime sitcoms were gradually replaced with talk and reality shows, though sitcoms still air in the evenings ( many of the shows that would have been on KASA over a decade ago are now on KWBQ and KASY ).

He gradually perceived them to be snobbish, with their talk of the " theatah ", and " I decided to give it a try myself, just to show them anyone could do it.

In the 1960s, WCAU gradually began moving away from music programming ; by 1967 it had become a talk station with considerable strengths in news and sports ( all of Philadelphia's major professional sports teams had WCAU as their flagship radio station at one time or another ).

According to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune, KFAN "... has morphed from a sports-talk station to a talk station that sometimes discusses sports.

Then he took off his wet boots and dropped down into the water to talk with the beasts, needing their comfort more than they needed his.

On Fridays, the day when many Persians relax with poetry, talk, and a samovar, people do not, it is true, stream into Chehel Sotun -- a pavilion and garden built by Shah Abbas 2, in the seventeenth century -- but they do retire into hundreds of pavilions throughout the city and up the river valley, which are smaller, more humble copies of the former.

William Wimsatt and Cleanth Brooks, it seems to me, have a penetrating insight into the way in which this control is effected: `` For if we say poetry is to talk of beauty and love ( and yet not aim at exciting erotic emotion or even an emotion of Platonic esteem ) and if it is to talk of anger and murder ( and yet not aim at arousing anger and indignation ) -- then it may be that the poetic way of dealing with these emotions will not be any kind of intensification, compounding, or magnification, or any direct assault upon the affections at all.

In the midst of this gloom, at 10:05 P.M. on September 2, Slocum's telegram to Stanton, `` General Sherman has taken Atlanta '', shattered the talk of a negotiated peace and boosted Lincoln into the White House.

It is a tribute to her talents that she was able to talk the District Attorney into having her removed from the prison to a hotel room, with her meals taken at Vesuvio's, an excellent Italian restaurant.

In spite of the shading of one type of course into another, I believe it is useful to talk about vocational courses as apart from academic courses.

`` The things you talk me into, Mike.

We met at Maxine's and decided we were set to stay as long as it took, into or even through the evening, to talk things out.

For instance, David Letterman is well known for branching into late night television as a talk show host while honing his skills a stand-up comedian, Barbra Streisand ventured into acting while operating as a singer, or Clint Eastwood, who achieved even greater fame in Hollywood for being a film director and a producer than for his acting credentials.

In Jewish liturgy there is significant prayer and talk of a " book of life " that one is written into, indicating that God judges each person each year even after death.

" Having unsuccessfully approached both the University of Oxford and Harvard University, Morris was able to talk his way into Princeton University, where he began studying the history of science, a topic in which he had " absolutely no background.

Much of the fishing industry was put into receivership, with talk of cutting down on the number of fish-farms and ships.

( Mathematicians are a sort of Frenchmen ; if you talk to them, they translate it into their own language, and then it is immediately something quite different.

Grossberg invites him into his swimming pool and poolside to talk business.

In Toumey's 2008 article, " Reading Feynman into Nanotechnology ", he found 11 versions of the publication of “ Plenty of Room ", plus two instances of a closely related talk by Feynman, “ Infinitesimal Machinery ,” which Feynman called “ Plenty of Room, Revisited .” Also in Toumey ’ s references are videotapes of that second talk.

Holt was catapulted into the American national consciousness to the extent that he made appearances on major TV talk shows, wrote book reviews for Life magazine, and was a guest on the To Tell The Truth TV game show.

Westrum hopes to talk Judd into taking the gold for themselves.

The microphone and earphone are usually built into a handset which is held up to the face to talk.

In general, various countries have translated vague talk about the purposes of their governments into particular state laws, bureaucracies, enforcement actions, etc.

The sheriff went outside and tried to talk the crowd into going home, but to no avail.

The chief of police, John A. Gustafson, later claimed that he tried to talk the crowd into going home.