The National Association of Manufacturers will launch a new public affairs radio program, “America’s Business” with Mike Hambrick, this weekend on eight radio stations around the country, in varying time slots. In the Washington, D.C., area, it will premiere on WTNT-AM 570 from 11 a.m. to noonon Saturday, August 5. Additional radio stations are scheduled to begin airing the program later this month.
“We are committed to providing a balanced public forum for discussion of the critical issues confronting business,” said NAM president John Engler, the former three-term governor of Michigan. “Too often, the general media either give superficial coverage to important business matters or present them in a biased context. We will put a spotlight on the really crucial challenges facing our economy, and give equal time to opposing points of view.”
Host Mike Hambrick is a veteran of TV and radio whose name and voice are familiar to Washingtonians. He anchored the 6 and 11 p.m. newscast at WJLA-TV for four years and was co-anchor and reporter for WRC-TV for four years. He also served as anchor and reporter for TV stations in Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Dallas and Phoenix. More recently, he wrote, produced and anchored “Freedom Line With Mike Hambrick,” a two-hour national weekly radio news and issues magazine program. Guests on that program included Bill Bennett, Milton Friedman, NBC anchor Tom Brokaw, CNN anchor Judy Woodruff, Willie Nelson, Richie Havens and Clint Black.
“We will cover a broad range of issues in America’s Business, beginning this week with clips from President Bush’s address to the NAM last Thursday,” said Hambrick. “We will be talking to policy makers in Washington and factory managers on shop floors. We will talk about soaring energy prices, runaway litigation, failing schools, unaffordable health insurance, and a level international playing field. Anything and everything that impacts the way America does business will be fair game.”
Engler said the NAM was especially pleased to have a journalist of Hambrick’s stature anchoring America’s Business.
“Mike is well known in Washington and around the country through his extensive work in TV and radio,” Engler said. “He is a seasoned veteran with a lifelong commitment to a balanced presentation of news and commentary. This is a first-class public affairs program and I urge everyone to give it a listen.”
The National Association of Manufacturers is the nation’s largest industrial trade association, representing small and large manufacturers in every industrial sector and in all 50 states. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the NAM has 10 additional offices across the country. Visit the NAM’s Web site at www.nam.org for more information about manufacturing and the economy.
