I think it is great that they play our national anthem! I don’t remember the last time I heard it on a radio broadcast, good on them! I remember as a kid in Africa they’d play the national anthem in cinemas before the movie started and you had to stand up and be respectful. How times have changed!

This is slightly off topic, but in the 1980's, comedian Steven Wright made a rare half hour film called "The Appointments of Dennis Jennings." It was a short flick that also starred the great Rowan Atkinson (aka Mr. Bean), and tells the story of why Dennis (played by Wright) was trying to shoot his psychiatrist (Atkinson.)

It is a hilarious bit of fluff, with a lot of bizarre side jokes that have nothing to do with the pretty thin plot. One of them involves Dennis going to his shrink's waiting room, where, for no explained reason, the U.S. national anthem is constantly playing at an overly loud volume. 

There are also tons of inside visual jokes, including the following newspaper headline, a complete throwaway sight gag. 



I saw this a long time ago and have never been able to forget it. I'm glad it's on YouTube for free. It's hysterical. 

I would boo no matter who the presedent is.
Both parties in the states are getting dumber and dumber.
But back to broadcasting, I remember in the 00s, tv channels used to play a beep sound then the national anthom.
I'm not up at night, do over the air channels still do this?

I'm glad John Pole's a proud Canadian when broadcasters like Rogers are becomming to americanised.