Patt Morrison for Tues 7/7/09

PATT MORRISON SCHEDULE

Tuesday, July 7, 2009

1-3 p.m.

 

1:00 – 1:20

Michael Jackson - It's A Wrap

Fans filled the Staples Center this morning (Tuesday 7/7) to say good-bye to music idol Michael Jackson.  We check in with reporters who were on the scene inside the arena.

 

Guests:

NOT CONFIRMED:

Frank Stoltze, KPCC reporter

CALL HIM:  TBD

 

 

1:20 – 1:30

OPEN

Guests:

 

 

1:30 - 2:00

America: Broke but Buying TVs

We're in the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. And yet, sales of television sets are up 17.3 percent over last year, according to the research firm ISuppli Corp.. What gives? Surely, a TV is not a necessity. Yet with the end of analogue TV many Americans are forgoing $40 converter boxes and instead finding the cash to buy a $1,000 high def flat panel (and filling up the landfills with old-school TVs in the process). Or maybe it's just that with vacations too expensive to consider, nice home entertainment is the only alternative?

 

Guests:

Britt Beemer, chairman of the consumer behavior firm America's Research Group, based in Charleston, SC

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TBD - on disposal of all those old TVs

 

 

2:00 – 2:20

OPEN

 

2:20 – 2:30

Foreclosures rise…on the horizon?

The housing market was beginning to sprout a few “green shoots,” but just off in the horizon is another wave of foreclosures, set to strike as foreclosure moratoriums under Obama’s home-stability plan expire. How big could it be and when will it hit?

 

Guests:

Thomas Davidoff, Assistant Professor of business, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbia

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2:30 – 3:00

OPEN