By Antonio D. French
Filed Friday, January 20 at 3:57 AM
A controversy continues in southwest Missouri. Apparently, the Democratic response to Gov. Matt Blunt's Jan. 11 State of the State speech was not heard in some parts of the state. Viewers of Ozarks Public Television and listeners of KSMU (SW Missouri's public radio station) missed out on hearing Sen. Maida Coleman's speech.
The reason, says the stations' general manager, is that the Gov ended his speech early and the Dems were slow to deliver.
Arlen Diamond, general manager of OPT and Director of Broadcast Services at KSMU, told The Joplin Independent, "Broadcast audiences listening to [the] address on public TV and radio in the Springfield area did not hear the Democrats' planned response because it was not fed from studios in Jefferson City at the end of the governor's 7 p.m. address."
"It was a very awkward situation. We didn't want to just ask people to stick around and wait until 8 to hear the response," he said.
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