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"This is Talk of the Nation from NPR News"[edit]

He repeats that several times throughout the whole show, which is typical of radio programs. Therefore it's not strictly a cue. I'll try tweaking the wording a bit. - mako 05:25, 18 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

You can tell when he uses it as a cue because the host will pause for a moment after saying those words so that stations can cut away. Otherwise, the phrase would be used in a sentence about the guest or topic and there would be no pause after the "News". Calwatch 01:51, 27 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Nationwide[edit]

What does this mean? Every radio station? Rich Farmbrough, 11:31 15 October 2006 (GMT).

Merger proposal[edit]

I would oppose merging Talk of The Nation with Science Friday; they are different shows with different staffs and different hosts which cover different subject matter. The fact that they share a time slot and promote each other's programming with on-air announcements is not sufficent reasons to merge them.

MarkusQ (talk) 21:08, 21 April 2008 (UTC)MarkusQ[reply]

Call in at 1-800-989-8255 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.38.135.49 (talk) 18:16, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]

There should be a 'discussion of bias' area. Talk of the Nation seems to mainly only interview right wing and republican speakers. (Not interested in politics myself, but had to mention it.) Science Friday is quite unbiased. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.105.77.169 (talk) 06:26, 29 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Host list[edit]

It would be good to have a list of who hosted when, e.g.,

John Hockenberry (1991-1993)
Ray Suarez (1993-1999)
Juan Williams (1999-2001)
Neal Conan (2001-present)

I'm not 100% sure about the dates; most of them are from other Wikipedia articles, while Suarez taking over from Hockenberry is a guess. I'm fairly sure Ira Glass was only a guest host, otherwise his bio/article would have said something more than that he was "substitute host" of (an) unspecified NPR show(s). Calbaer (talk) 17:11, 16 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

"Is" --> "was"[edit]

This is the first line in the leade: "Talk of the Nation (TOTN) is an American talk radio program based in Washington D.C., produced by National Public Radio (NPR) that was broadcast nationally from 2 to 4 p.m. Eastern Time." I suggest that the verb "... is ..." be changed to "... was ..." as the program is no longer broadcast. --TGC55 (talk) 22:24, 20 February 2021 (UTC)[reply]

I was of the same mind and made such edit in Sept 2021 which was reverted with the message "Stop. Do not change to was per MOS:TVNOW" which references the Wiki Style manual for Television, which at the time of this note states "References to the show, and its characters and locations, should always be in the present tense, as the show will still exist even after it is no longer airing new episodes". We have thus been corrected Iggynelix (talk) 02:07, 20 September 2021 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for that explanation. I was about to change it to "was" as well until I noticed the comment you mentioned.

All I have to say is: Blech! What a horrible decision. When I read the entry, I got all excited because I thought it was still airing somewhere and I had just missed it. I was sad to read that "is" has more to do with a dusty old style manual than with the way actual humans speak. D.a.gutierrez (talk) 13:42, 11 April 2023 (UTC)[reply]