Radio broadcasting veteran relocates after finding a new angle on the news business.Radio broadcasting The examples and perspective in this article or section may not represent a worldwide view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. veteran relocates after finding a new angle on the news business The news is changing and that is why veteran radio broadcaster Jim Angle Jim Angle is the chief Washington D.C. correspondent for the Fox News Channel. He has a Masters Degree from the University of Texas and served in the US Military in Germany and Vietnam. decided to leave Washington, D.C. and National Public Radio for Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. and host one of the only national news shows produced here. "I've covered politics for a long time but it now seem that the best stories are about the economy and business," said Angle, who now hosts American Public Radio's Marketplace show Monday through Friday from studios in Long Beach. Angle covered national and international politics from the White House for 10 years as editor of NPR's All Things Considered All Things Considered (ATC) is a news radio program in the United States, broadcast on the National Public Radio network. It was the first news program on the network, and is broadcast live worldwide through several outlets. program before deciding to join American Public Radio as host of Marketplace, a half-hour program that went on the air in January 1989. The show is broadcast on 120 radio stations across the country, including Los Angeles area stations KCRW-FM at 3:30 p.m., KUSC-FM at 5 p.m. and KLON-FM at 6 p.m. "It was a tremendous personal and professional opportunity for me to come to a new show and a new city," he said. "The political changes that have occurred in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe Eastern Europe The countries of eastern Europe, especially those that were allied with the USSR in the Warsaw Pact, which was established in 1955 and dissolved in 1991. have been the result of economic changes. Now it looks like if there is going to be a change in apartheid in South Africa South Africa, Afrikaans Suid-Afrika, officially Republic of South Africa, republic (2005 est. pop. 44,344,000), 471,442 sq mi (1,221,037 sq km), S Africa. it may because of economic reasons." Marketplace has bureaus in 11 cities, including London and Tokyo, and has featured commentary by such notables as Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca, Texas financier T. Boone Pickens, former Sen. William Proxmire, Harvard economist Robert Reich, and Tom Peters, author of "In Search of Excellence." "We cover Wall Street and corporate America and high finance, like we should," said Angle, "but we also try to look at how the economy and business effect individuals and families in their daily lives." Angle, 43, said he knew of no other national news show produced from Los Angeles or the West Coast. Marketplace is coproduced by USC An abbreviation for U.S. Code. Radio and Pacific Public Radio. Later this year, Marketplace will move to studios on the USC campus. PHOTO : Angle: 'The best stories are about business' |
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