[applause] [cheers and applause] c oh come on. Good morning. Thank you for that warm welcome and thank you for being in person all the people watching on line or listening remotely we say thank you for joining us for the 2024 state of the state. Youve all been thoroughly welcomed this morning but i want to give a special shout out to a few people in the course ive got to start with first Lady Catherine and her family members she spirit their sister julie and her cousin lisa and watching on line to the rest of our rest of our extended families and their sons joe and tom and her daughter jesse and their extended families. When you serve your family serves with you so i want to be sure to at this time thank them for all their support in the seven years in todays a special day because its jesses birthday and so we need on a one, two, three everybody to yell happy birthday jesse. It will be the Largest Group to ever yell her birthday at the same time. One, 23, happy birthday jesse [applause
Technology, and the changing landscape of political talk shows. This is almost an hour and a half. Thank you very much. Good morning. I was just sitting here with ryan kill me kilmeade. The long island guys are well represented here this morning. I work right down the block here, a couple blocks away so it isnt easy john job this morning to come in and say hello. I was looking through some stuff the last couple of days and everyone is talking about radio. It is amazing the amount of negativity no matter what part of the business that you are in. I have in part of wfan since 1987. I have been in the same job since 1989. Kind of warring. Same time, same station. I used had a partner, i lost him about somewhere along the way. I look up and he was gone. I think he is working. I sent out notes. He is doing fine on a different part in doing a baseball show. All you read now is consolidation leads to death clusters, which to me is a dirty word, cut tax nobody has a good word for radio anymore
It is out there. I will not discuss that today. I would like to but i will not. The point is, it is hard now, it is much more fun and i am a big the lever although we have sean and so many people who have done so well and have built really and industries in brilliant businesses doing network radio. My has always been live in local and immediate. I have always liked this small city here as my home turf. I think of it as my home. My point is that it has changed. It is not going to change back. We know that it is going to be owned most of the time, most stations will be owned by people who have a lot of stations managers who have more than one station to run. Salespeople involved in more than one type of programming all that stuff. It does not change the dynamic of the business. Live in local, it has to go back to that no matter what part of the business you are running because eventually, it is about a guy who has a show room to sell cars or a storefront he wants people to walk into or a
Votes counted it. But voters and grace have said no to a nationwide referendum on credit over for proposals. Opposition Party Members and many european officials warn that a no vote could endanger greases position. But government officials predict that about 60 of voters will reject the proposal. Banks have been shot all week. They are scheduled to reopen on tuesday. With the rejection of the referendum likely it is uncertain that will happen. Secretary of state john kerry has been meeting with irans foreign minister in vienna today. World powers and a wrong or hoping to reach a deal by tuesday, setting a decade of restrictions on Irans Nuclear program and granting them significant relief from international sanctions. This evening my foreign minister colleagues are returning here to vienna and it is now time are there we go it is now time to see whether or not we are able to close an agreement. In many ways this negotiation has been going on for a number of years. Over the past two day
For treatment. Police have not released any information on the suspect vehicle. We dont know how many people theyre looking for tonight. Live in newport news, erin kelly, 10 on your side. To suffolk now and a bit of new information on the shooting of a child we reported first last night at 10. It happened on jonathans way in the applewood farms neighborhood. The 3 year old is at chkd. 10 on your sides joe fisher has been on this story all day getting new information. Joe tom, nicole police say that toddler somehow got a hold of a gun and shot himself in the upper airlifted here to chkd where im told he is being treated for injuries he should recover from. c1 54 22 there was just police cars up and down lining our street. A gun in the hands of a child inside this home on jonathans way in suffolk has landed the three Childrens Hospital in norfolk. c1 53 55 it could have been so much more tragic than what it was. The call to Police Wednesday night came in around 7 30 putting neighbors on