I’ve you’ve got XM Satellite Radio and way too much time on your hands, you can now tune into a 24 hour channel devoted to the 2008 Presidential Race:
XM is launching a new 24-hour, commercial-free channel dedicated to the 2008 presidential election called “POTUS ?08.”The channel’s name (pronounced POH-tus… say it with me, POH-tus) comes from the Secret Service
code nameacronym for the President of the United States.POTUS ‘08, created in association with C-SPAN and other media outlets, is the first national radio channel ever that is completely devoted to a presidential campaign. The channel will also be broadcast for free to all XM radio receivers. So even if you’re not a subscriber, but have an XM radio installed, you can still listen to the presidential election channel.
You can expect to hear news updates, candidate interviews, complete speeches, debate coverage, latest polling results, fundraising status, and live call-in shows. The channel will provide free airtime for presidential candidates to speak to voters. Non-traditional media outlets, such as bloggers and podcasters, will provide content for the channel (very cool!). It will also air archival audio of historic moments from past campaigns, tapping C-SPAN?s political archive. (And there’s more to come.)
While it will only serve to demonstrate how much of a political geek I am, I’m pretty sure I’ll be tuning into this.
H/T: Bearing Drift
May 22nd, 2007 at 9:13 am
I forget, is it still technically too soon to be thinking about the 2008 elections? Aren’t we supposed to be in the “Well, it looks like X, Y and Z will be running for the nomination next year.” or are we past the time when the campaign for the nomination normally begins?
Hillary! screwed up my circadian political rhythm by declaring so early. I just want to go back an hibernate…