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Date Posted: 12:40:22 10/30/02 Wed
Author: Captn Hank
Subject: War of the Worlds

I just received an email from WPHT stating that Glenn Beck was going to do the "War of the Worlds" segment tonight. Good grief..... Please Bomb..... Please Bomb. I hope someone will post the ratings of this farce.

Grace, I'm now down to Rush and the first hour of Rollye. At one time, you had a pretty good station. May it now R.I.P.

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[> A neat idea that's been done before [more] -- beckfan, 15:20:10 10/30/02 Wed

It was done on commercial radio in 1955, 1964, 1968, and 1988 on NPR.

http://216.239.33.100/search?q=cache:QNGfUoaTdEC:www.greatnorthernaudio.com/sf_radio/wow.html+%22War+of+The+Worlds%22+NPR&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Even the Stark Trek cast did it in 1994 live. I guess Beck is technically right that nobody has done it Exactly like he will This time on Commercial Radio but it has been done before. It's a challenge to produce [sound reproduction and all] and perfect for public radio. On wpht it doesn't fit.

And this comes from somebody that likes his show.


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[> Beck -- Joe D, 15:45:11 10/30/02 Wed

Don't worry beck will have fewer people listening then the usual several hundred. This is a worn out stunt. No one listening no harm done.


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[> It is puzzling why Beck choose to recreate that broadcast. It caused such a furor the first time around because people were a little more gullible and not exposed to everyday scams like pop-up ads and WHAT-AM. An odd choice. -- Freddy, 13:49:09 10/31/02 Thu


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