Listening to “The John Batchelor Show” on WABC is like taking a graduate course in current events. Batchelor covers the news nightly from domestic to foreign affairs, politics to the economy, China to the Middle East, election campaigns to planetary exploration. His insightful take on the day’s stories is delivered with an elegance and punctuated wit rarely heard on today’s airwaves.
One can almost glimpse his imposing figure and trademark bowtie through the AM dial.
With its signature musical interludes, Batchelor’s show, which is number one in its time slot, features in-depth analysis by regular co-hosts John Avlon (CNN), Lawrence Kudlow (CNBC), Gordon Chang (Forbes.com) and Malcolm Hoenlein (Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations).
Batchelor’s frequent guests include John Fund (The Wall Street Journal), David Drucker (Roll Call), John Bolton (former United States ambassador to the United Nations) and Salena Zito (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review).
A recent Daily Beast article by the aforementioned John Avlon sums up Batchelor’s success.
“Batchelor’s show gives in-depth analysis that acknowledges the wider world from Afghanistan to China to India and Iraq. “This depth and breadth is unmatched in any other medium, even in the city that never sleeps, and it is gaining pick-up stations in major markets across the nation.”
