John Catsimatidis | Red Apple Media Owner & Operator | 10-22-25

Sid & Friends In The Morning

77 WABC

Sports, News, Comedy

4.2 • 826 Ratings

🗓️ 22 October 2025

⏱️ 16 minutes

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John Catsimatidis, Red Apple Media Owner & Operator, calls into the program to talk about being awarded New York State Broadcaster of the Year, before diving into major topics with Sid. He recounts his dinner with President Trump at the White House, highlighting key political and economic successes, including Trump's efforts to revive American industry through tariffs. Catsimatidis emphasizes the importance of AM radio for emergency broadcasting and criticizes electric vehicle companies for excluding AM radios from their systems. He also addresses social and political issues and the NYC Mayoral race, stressing the unity needed to combat Zohran Mamdani. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:51.4	My guy, John, will be awarded today, the New York State Broadcaster of the Year, which is a big deal.
0:56.5	This fresh up is dinner at the White House with President Trump last night. You know, John, that bodes the question. Who the hell is better than you? A lot of people.
1:02.9	I don't know about that, man. Dinner with Trump last night winning the big award. It's New York State.
1:08.7	It's not the national broadcasting award. It's okay. There's a lot of
1:12.8	great broadcasters here in New York State. So congratulations. I mean that. It's going to be a great
1:17.9	afternoon. So congratulations. Well, thank you. And look, it's, we try real hard. And the fact is, we went to war with the, I guess, the woke industry
1:32.6	or the electric vehicles industry on AM radios in your car.
1:38.2	And people should not buy a car if there's no AM because there's not going to be any FM radio is in there
1:45.3	either and what the electric car companies are trying to do is put it through their system
1:50.6	put it through their system and earn money on on every uh every time you tune in they
1:58.9	sell the information.
2:11.9	Now, AM radio is part of an emergency broadcasting system, and 94% of America people,
2:20.0	they have AM radio in their cars and are able to, in case of emergency, whether it's a flood, whether it's an earthquake, whether it's a hurricane, blackout, New York, whether it's a, that they have to have
2:27.8	AM radio.
2:29.2	And if you remember the blackouts in New York or whatever everybody went downstairs to their to
2:35.0	their car turned on the AM radio to find out what the heck was going on and some of
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