John Calvin Batchelor (born April 29, 1948) is an American author and host of ''Eye on the World'' on the CBS Audio Network. His flagship station is New York's 710 WOR. The show is a hard-news-analysis radio program on current events, world history, global politics and natural sciences. It has travelled widely to report, from the Middle East to the South Caucasus to the Arabian Peninsula and East Asia For five years, from early 2001 to September 2006, based at

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WABC radio in New York, his radio program ''The John Batchelor Show'' was syndicated nationally on the

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radio network. On October 7, 2007, Batchelor returned to radio on WABC, and later to other large

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stations on a weekly basis. As of November 30, 2009, Batchelor was once again hosting a nightly show on WABC, from 9 p.m. to 1a.m.

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and heard in many major markets across the country through what eventually became the

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network. The program for a time was heard seven nights a week, using prerecorded material on weekends. Later, it aired Monday through Friday on WABC and many Westwood One

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s. Batchelor describes the show as a "

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" since he does not take phone calls from listeners but does a series of interviews with guests and reporters. The show's run on Westwood One ended in March 2021 as part of a reorganization at WABC, after which Batchelor almost immediately began his current show with CBS.

Early years

Batchelor was born in

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to an

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mother from

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and a Midwestern American father. He was raised primarily in Lower Merion Township of Montgomery County, in Pennsylvania's 13th congressional district. His mother and father both served in the

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during

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; his father also served in the

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. Batchelor is the eldest of five brothers. He is a 1970 graduate of

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and a graduate of Union Theological Seminary in New York.

Broadcasting

''Batchelor and Alexander''

John Batchelor co-hosted ''Batchelor and Alexander'' with writer Paul Alexander on WABC in New York for over two years. They focused on international issues with special attention to Middle East-based

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. Batchelor described their approach: "Our model is the

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, with music and live interviews, but without English accents." Alexander quipped: "We're not

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, where they do setups to things on tape. Well, we could be NPR on drugs." Three days before the

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, they presented a four-hour WABC show on the USS ''Cole'' bombing, interviewing several guests. Alexander left the show in December 2003 to pursue work as a playwright and biographer.

''The John Batchelor Show''

''The John Batchelor Show'' began its national syndication in April 2003. The program airs 20 hours a week on roughly 200 stations. Its focus is geopolitics, economics, war, history, hard sciences, literature, private space, whimsy, etc. Historically, it carried nightly (Mon-Fri) the "Loftus Report" featuring the intelligence commentator John Loftus on current, war-related,

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, at the time Jerusalem bureau chief for WorldNetDaily, was also a regular and served as a co-host. Other regular contributors included

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, the executive vice president of the

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; the New York attorney and taste-maker Ed Hayes;

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of CNBC's ''

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'';

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of the

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; John Fund, Bret Stephens, Dan Henninger, Rob Pollock and Kim Strassel of the ''

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''; Jim McTague of ''

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'';

Chuck Todd Charles David Todd (born April 8, 1972) is an American television journalist who is the 12th and current moderator of NBC's ''Meet the Press''. He also hosts ''Meet the Press Now'', its daily edition on NBC News Now and is the Political Directo ...

, then of ''The Hotline'', now NBC Political Director; Fiona Harvey and Martin Wolf of the ''

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''; Jodi Schneider of the ''

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'';

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and A. O. Scott of the ''

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'';

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and Stephen F. Cohen of ''

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''; Victor Davis Hanson, Henry Miller, and Larry Diamond of the Hoover Institution; Adrian Wooldridge, Robert Guest, and John Parker of ''

the Economist ''The Economist'' is a British weekly newspaper printed in demitab format and published digitally. It focuses on current affairs, international business, politics, technology, and culture. Based in London, the newspaper is owned by The Econo ...

'';

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; David Grinspoon, resident expert on the planet Mars and outer space, and Robert Zimmerman, award-winning

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observer. The program daily featured reports from journalists who filed with the world's most respected press outlets, and the show was reliably a few days ahead of the news cycle. When John Batchelor occasionally took a break for several evenings, the show was often hosted by

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, editor of ''

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'' in Washington, D.C.; sometimes by the former BBC journalist John Terrett, who now works for

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; and by

of CNBC's ''

'' and WABC's ''Larry Kudlow Show''. In 2012, Simon Constable of Dow Jones; Chris Riback, author and researcher, and Francis Rose of Federal News Radio in Washington, D.C., became primary fill-ins. Batchelor's show featured multiple guests, and shows were preceded by and interspersed with news clips and music. The show focused on myriad topics, including politics, the

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nuclear proliferation Nuclear proliferation is the spread of nuclear weapons, fissionable material, and weapons-applicable nuclear technology and information to nations not recognized as " Nuclear Weapon States" by the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Wea ...

, the UN, African civil wars,

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and even Hollywood scandals. The ''

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'' has an audio archive of ''Batchelor and Alexander'' segments from 2002 and 2003 that deal with Israel and the Middle East. To report on breaking news, Batchelor and his executive producer have travelled domestically to hotspots, and to Azerbaijan, Qatar, Israel, Jordan,

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, Uzbekistan, France, Poland and Taiwan. They landed in Taipei to broadcast for the week leading up to the 2004 elections when, on the last day of electioneering, both the president and the vice-president were shot and wounded by an unknown assailant.

First cancellation and subsequent return

On Monday, August 25, 2006, Batchelor announced on air that his ABC show would be canceled, beginning with the show scheduled for the next Monday, September 1. Batchelor returned on WABC as the host of a weekly version of the previous show on October 7, 2007, from 7–10pm Eastern Time. He then hosted a second show as a guest host on

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in Los Angeles, filling the vacancy caused by the departure of

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, in the next three hours from 7–10pm Pacific time. His first program featured an interview with Nick Grace of ClandestineRadio.com that broke the name of

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's extranet, Obelisk, and the news that the extranet's security tightened following a press leak in September 2007. In 2009, Batchelor expanded his show to Saturday and Sunday nights, from 9pm to 1am, on most of his affiliates. The Saturday show focused more on authors of history books, while the Sunday show focused on breaking news and a wider range of topics. On November 24, 2009, WABC announced that the Batchelor show would be also airing weeknights from 9pm to 1am, effective November 30. Batchelor was a frequent guest on the ''Gene Countryman Show'', KNSS, Wichita, Kansas, Sundays at 8pm Eastern. Batchelor on Tuesdays formerly featured an hour with

on finance (until Kudlow became an advisor to President Trump), and then an hour with professor Stephen Cohen on Russia. Professor Cohen elected to take a break for a while and the Tuesday guest as of early 2020 is Gregory R. Copley, publisher of Defense and Foreign Affairs. On Wednesdays: an hour-plus with Gordon Chang on China and East Asia, and one or two segments on private exploration of space with Dr. David Livingston; on Thursdays: an hour with

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on domestic U.S. politics, foreign policy, and matters Australian (until Kissel became a senior advisor to Secretary of State

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), then an hour and a half with

on the Middle East.

''CBS Eye on the World''

On March 5, 2021, Batchelor hosted his last episode of ''The John Batchelor Show'' on WABC and Westwood One, as WABC shuffled its format and the show ended its affiliation with Westwood One in favor of syndication by CBS News. Batchelor continued to produce show segments during March, styled as "The New John Batchelor Show". He noted during the segments that the show is "represented by CBS Audio Network." In April 2021, the show returned to stations across the country. The material is streamed on

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, linked from Batchelor's website; specific segments are announced on

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as they are available. In May 2021, Batchelor began identifying the show as ''CBS Eye on the World.'' On Monday, November 1, 2021, the program debuted on WOR in New York, airing from 9 PM to midnight, Monday through Friday.

Bibliography

Writing as John Calvin Batchelor *''The Further Adventures of Halley's Comet'' (1980) (novel) *''The Birth of the People's Republic of Antarctica'', Dial Press (1983) (novel) *''American Falls'' (1985) (novel) *''Thunder in the Dust: Classic Images of Western Movies'' (1987) (with John R. Hamilton) *''Peter Nevsky and the True Story of the Russian Moon Landing'' (1993) (novel) *''Father's Day'', (1994) (novel) *''"Ain't You Glad You Joined the Republicans?": A Short History of the GOP'' (May 1996) (nonfiction) Writing as Tommy "Tip" Paine *''Gordon Liddy Is My Muse'' (1990) (novel) *''Walking the Cat'' (1991) (novel)

Frequent guests

John Avlon John Phillips Avlon (born January 19, 1973) is an American journalist and political commentator. He is a Senior Political Analyst and anchor at CNN and was the editor-in-chief and managing director of ''The Daily Beast'' from 2013 to 2018. Avlon ...

, ''

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''; progressive commentator, author of '' Wingnuts: How the Lunatic Fringe Is Hijacking America'' * Jeff Bliss, The Bliss Index *

John R. Bolton John Robert Bolton (born November 20, 1948) is an American attorney, diplomat, Republican consultant, and political commentator. He served as the 25th United States Ambassador to the United Nations from 2005 to 2006, and as the 26th United Stat ...

, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations;

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; National Security Advisor of the United States. * Lara M. Brown, political historian and author *

Gordon G. Chang Gordon Guthrie Chang (born July 5, 1951) is a columnist, author, and lawyer. He is the author of ''The Coming Collapse of China'' in which he attempted to predict the collapse of China and claimed that it would collapse by 2011. In December 201 ...

; noted anti-Communist Chinese commentator * Stephen F. Cohen, Russian studies scholar at Princeton University * Simon Constable,

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* Gregory R Copley, editor and publisher of Defense & Foreign Affairs * Christopher Nixon Cox, Liechtenstein Institute at Princeton University *

, ''Washington Times'' and Fox News *

Judy Dempsey Judy Dempsey is an Irish journalist and international relations researcher. She is a non-resident Senior Fellow at Carnegie Europe, and has been editor-in-chief for Carnegie Europe's ''Strategic Europe'' blog. She has been a guest contributor ...

, Editor in chief StrategicEurope, blog of Carnegie_Europe. * David Drucker, ''Washington Examiner'' senior Congressional correspondent *

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Charlie Gasparino Charles Gasparino is an American journalist, blogger, occasional radio host. He frequently serves as panelist on the Fox Business Network program segment '' The Cost of Freedom'' and the stocks/business news program ''Cashin' In''. Early life and ...

, appears less often than before * Taegan Goddard, ''

Political Wire ''Political Wire'' is an American political blog. It was founded in 1999 and published by Taegan () Goddard, a former policy adviser to Democratic U.S. Senator Donald Riegle and Independent Governor Lowell Weicker, and the co-author of the 1998 p ...

'' * Lou Ann Hammond, CEO of www.carlist.com; CEO of www.drivingthenation.com *

Victor Davis Hanson Victor Davis Hanson (born September 5, 1953) is an American commentator, classicist, and military historian. He has been a commentator on modern and ancient warfare and contemporary politics for ''The New York Times'', ''Wall Street Journal'', ...

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* Larry Johnson,

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blog *

, formerly of ''

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'' *

, formerly of CNBC and late

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; Director of the National Economic Council under President Donald Trump *

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, MI-11; R. *

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, CA-21; R * Arif Rafiq, Pakistan Policy Blog *

Bill Roggio Bill Roggio is an American commentator on military affairs, and the managing editor of ''The Long War Journal''. Prior to leading a team of online commentators, Roggio published the online weblog ''The Fourth Rail''. Roggio was an active duty ...

, ''Long War Journal'' * John Tamny,

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* Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran,

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Adrian Wooldridge Adrian Wooldridge (born 1959) is an author and columnist. He is the Global Business Columnist at Bloomberg Opinion. Life and career Wooldridge was educated at Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied modern history and was awarded a fellowshi ...

*Bob Zimmerman, author of '' Leaving Earth'' *

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, ''

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'', ''New York Post'' Regular segments include "Hotel California" (introduced by an instrumental version of the Eagles song), which was a discussion of California's former fiscal discombobulation and its political environment, including the gubernatorial and Senatorial races.

generally is included in the roundtable; also, Hotel Mars, episode ''n.'' Robert Zimmerman of behindtheblack frequently comes on to talk about

and the

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, preceded by the music from the ''

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'' end credits. The show's last segment (c.12:55 AM EST) invariably features

Al Bowlly Albert Allick Bowlly (7 January 1898 – 17 April 1941) was a Mozambican-born South African– British vocalist and jazz guitarist, who was popular during the 1930s in Britain. He recorded more than 1,000 songs. His most popular songs includ ...

's "

Midnight, the Stars and You "Midnight, the Stars and You" is a British-American popular foxtrot song written by Harry M. Woods, Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly and published in 1934. The most famous recorded version was performed in 1934 by Ray Noble and his Orchestra wi ...

", ending in a brief (<30sec) valediction/good-night, sometimes with a few moments with a guest (time for one question). The singer is sometimes mistaken for

Al Jolson Al Jolson (born Eizer Yoelson; June 9, 1886 – October 23, 1950) was a Lithuanian-American Jews, Jewish singer, comedian, actor, and vaudevillian. He was one of the United States' most famous and highest-paid stars of the 1920s, and was self-bi ...

, as Batchelor introduces the singer simply with "here's Al," and the song dates from the time of Bowlly's late career. From 2001 to 2006, Batchelor ended his show with Kate Smith singing "

God Bless America "God Bless America" is an American patriotic song written by Irving Berlin during World War I in 1918 and revised by him in the run up to World War II in 1938. The later version was notably recorded by Kate Smith, becoming her signature s ...

, Jeff Bliss, Gordon Chang, Simon Constable, Taegan Goddard,

, Francis Rose, and Chris Riback have frequently guest-hosted or co-hosted.

References

External links

The John Batchelor Show home page

New York Sun op-eds archive

Human Events op-eds archive
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