FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – June 2, 2008
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JIM WEBB TO APPEAR ON PUBLIC RADIO PROGRAM
State Senator to Guest on June 7th edition of Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!

Norfolk:  Senator Jim Webb will be the special guest on Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me!, the NPR news quiz that airs every Saturday on WHRV 89.5FM at 11:00am.
 Appearing in the Not My Job segment, Webb will be asked questions about an unfamiliar topic, and will be given three improbable answers from which to choose.  He will play for a listener, and if he gets two out of three answers correct, he will win the ultimate prize: program co-host and NPR newsman Carl Kasell’s voice on the listener’s home answering machine.
 Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! will be recorded live on Thursday, June 5th, at the Sandler Center for the Performing Arts in Virginia Beach.  The show is sold out, but can be heard on June 7th on WHRV 89.5FM.
 Making its first Hampton Roads appearance, Wait Wait is a staple of WHRV’s Saturday morning programming.  It is a recent Peabody Award winner.  Wait Wait is also heard on SpeakEasy, one of the public broadcaster’s digital radio stations, on Saturdays at 3:00pm.  SpeakEasy can be heard on a digital radio at 89.5-2, or streamed at WHRO’s website, www.whro.org or www.whrv.org.

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