{"id":7269,"date":"2013-09-11T09:21:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-11T13:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7269"},"modified":"2013-09-11T09:22:10","modified_gmt":"2013-09-11T13:22:10","slug":"the-take-away-interview-with-ajit-pai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/the-take-away-interview-with-ajit-pai\/","title":{"rendered":"The Take Away interviews Ajit Pai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AjitPai.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7270\" alt=\"AjitPai\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AjitPai.jpg\" width=\"194\" height=\"259\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AjitPai.jpg 194w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/AjitPai-74x100.jpg 74w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 194px) 100vw, 194px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to Dan Srebnick for sending a link to this piece on <a title=\"The Take Away\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thetakeaway.org\/2013\/sep\/10\/quest-save-am-radio\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Take Away<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In <em>The Quest To Save AM Radio,<\/em>\u00a0John Hockenberry talks about AM radio nostalgia and then interviews Ajit Pai (<a title=\"Ajit Pai is trying to save AM radio \u201cbefore it\u2019s lost in the static\u201d\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/ajit-pai-is-trying-to-save-am-radio-before-its-lost-in-the-static\/\">who was mentioned in a post a few days ago<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Download MP3\" href=\"http:\/\/www.podtrac.com\/pts\/redirect.mp3\/audio.wnyc.org\/takeaway\/takeaway091013-am.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download an MP3<\/a> of the interview or simply listen via the embedded player below.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.thetakeaway.org\/widgets\/ondemand_player\/#file=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thetakeaway.org%2Faudio%2Fxspf%2F317240%2F;containerClass=takeaway\" height=\"54\" width=\"474\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to Dan Srebnick for sending a link to this piece on The Take Away. In The Quest To Save AM Radio,\u00a0John Hockenberry talks about AM radio nostalgia and then interviews Ajit Pai (who was mentioned in a post a few days ago). Click here to download an MP3 of the interview or simply [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,56,4,3,305],"tags":[2128,4097,2140,2139],"class_list":["post-7269","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-broadcasters","category-interviews","category-news","category-nostalgia","tag-ajit-pai","tag-am","tag-john-hockenberry","tag-the-take-away"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1Tf","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27329,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/07\/fcc-chairman-ajit-pai-questioned-about-pirate-enforcement\/","url_meta":{"origin":7269,"position":0},"title":"FCC Chairman Ajit Pai questioned about pirate enforcement","author":"Thomas","date":"July 26, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"(Source: Tom Taylor Now newsletter) FCC staff will be \u201ccops on the beat\u201d against pirates. 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