"Turn On The News" is the weekly newscast from the fictional Radio Network, with parody radio coverage of the radio and its headlines. Now with computerized news readers, and fewer meddling reporters, plus aggregated reporting, and automated music. Tune in "Turn On The News" each week for the latest news, radio art, and more from our robot reporters, making sure you hear both sides -- good and evil -- every time you "Turn On The News." It is often a mash-up of the week's news, and sometimes a radio news fantasy.
Skits from Monty Python ("The Phone In") and Jean Shepherd ("Three Phones").
"Turn On The News" is the weekly newscast from the fictional Radio Network, with parody radio coverage of the radio and its headlines. Now with computerized news readers, and fewer meddling reporters, plus aggregated reporting, and automated music. Tune in "Turn On The News" each week for the latest news, radio art, and more from our robot reporters, making sure you hear both sides -- good and evil -- every time you "Turn On The News." This week: "Phone Calls." The telephones are ringing. With songs from Husker Du ("Turn on the News") and The Nerves ("Hanging on the Telephone") and skits from Monty Python ("The Phone In") and Jean Shepherd ("Three Phones"). Episode 037.
Phone Calls
Weekly newscast from the fictional Radio Network, with parody radio coverage of the radio and its headlines.
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Oct. 7, 2021
Recorded at Wave Farm in the Hudson Valley in New York.