The History of BOR Public Radio

Since the dawn of American civilization, BOR has been there. It began during the American Revolution when Paul Scheinstein would ride through towns in the colonies, shouting the local news at the top of his lungs. With the development of the wireless transmitter, Paul's grandson Thomas Scheinstein began tapping out messages in Morse Code. He called the five-minute program Some Things That Will Be Considered Later.

The breakthrough came in 1895 when Guglielmo Marconi invented radio. Scheinstein immediately saw the benefits of this new invention. He assembled a crack team of reporters, set up a broadcast station in Washington D.C., and began daily reports on events around the world. Unfortunately, since no one else had a radio receiver, it took several decades before anyone else heard his reports. But Scheinstein refused to be swayed. Even when he couldn't pay his reporters and they all quit, he continued to broadcast. The turning point came in 1923 when Scheinstein ran out of money to travel. The Some Things That Will Be Considered Later broadcast became five minutes of Scheinstein describing the meals he wished he could eat. But during the Great Depression, homeless and unemployed American citizens had nothing better to do than listen to the radio to block out their hunger pangs, and found Some Things That Will Be Considered Later eased the pain.

By 1946, Scheinstein had given up on his dream of a national news broadcast, but found unexpected help from flight pioneer and millionare Howard Hughes. Hughes had gone insane by then and during a rambling phone call to his attorney, willed fifty million dollars to Thomas Scheinstein. At Hughes' death, Scheinstein used the money to bribe several members of Congress to sponsor a bill turning BOR Radio into a public news broadcast. In 1956, BOR Public Radio became an official radio station of the U.S. Government.

More than fifty years later, Some Things To Consider Later is the most popular program on BOR Public Radio. Robert Scheinstein, the grandson of the founder, Thomas Scheinstein, continues to host the program along with his co-host, Melissa Worthington.

Some Things To Consider Later

Host - Robert Scheinstein
Robert Scheinstein is the grandson of the founder of BOR Public Radio. He has had a long career in journalism, working at such institutions as the Kennebunqport Chronicle, the Technical Institute of Technology Newsletter, and Knitting Weekly. He graduated as the 1964 valedictorian at the Scheinstein School of Journalism. Scheinstein spent the next twenty years working in a plastic cup factory. In 1984, Milton Heep, the long-standing host of Some Things To Consider Later, retired after an unruly interview with Ronald Reagan. He was replaced by Robert Scheinstein, who won the hearts of BOR's listeners two years later.

Co-Host - Melissa Worthington
Melissa Worthington is a former Miss Kentucky beauty pageant winner who held a brief career in modeling from 1962-1971. A tragic can-opener accident ended her modeling career, leaving her to find a new path. Worthington found her calling when she did a voice-over for Tasty Weiners dog food in 1992. Listeners enjoyed the way she said "Tasty Weiners" so much that she did their campaign for the next ten years, as well as hundreds of other commercials. In 1997, Worthington did voice work for the cable news network, GNN. That drew her to the attention of Robert Scheinstein who picked her to replace his ex-wife as his co-host on Some Things to be Consider Later. She married Robert Scheinstein six months later.

Correspondents

News director and senior analyst: Milton Heep
Milton Heep began as Thomas Scheinstein's partner and took over as host of Some Things To Consider Later after Thomas Scheinstein's death. Heep served as the host for the next 38 years, but some listeners expressed concern about his increasingly disjointed work. In 1984, Milton Heep conducted a White House interview with President Ronald Reagan. During the interview, Milton Heep declared himself a long-standing Communist, threatened the lives of the cast of Different Strokes, accused Reagan of working as a double-agent for the Swiss, ate an entire jar of Reagan's jellybeans in ten seconds, and had to be institutionalized after he tried to stuff a rosebush up the nose of Reagan's dog. Heep retired shortly afterwards, but continues to bring his unique perspective to BOR in regular commentaries. Heep will always remain an enduring and irreplaceable part of BOR Public Radio, according to his contract.

Foreign Affairs correspondent: Shnkrwzya Gxglegjkdfn
Gxglegjkdfn was born in the Eastern Bloc nation of Vixujqofzia. She went to the government-sponsored Department of Journalism, where she earned her major in Propaganda. She earned a Marxie Award for her series, Why the United States of America Shall Collapse in Five Years in 1985, but found herself unfulfilled and frustrated with supporting the failing government. In 1991, Gxglegjkdfn escaped the country by duct-taping herself to the underside of a tank crossing the border. After hitchhiking across the Mypqwaf Desert, Gxglegjkdfn snuck into the hold of an American military cargo plane. She arrived in America and supported herself in New York by working on street corners, writing news stories about passers-by. Gxglegjkdfn was granted U.S. citizenship in 2002, which was revoked six months later. She was granted citizenship again in 2003. She was hired by BOR Public Radio in 2005. She is currently working out of BOR's Vixujqofzia Bureau.

Business correspondent: Jeweep Kikigger - Biography Coming Soon

Entertainment correspondent: Minjo Popopopopopo - Biography Coming Soon

Health correspondent: Neeero-POP - Biography Coming Soon

Sports correspondent: Jamblia Boolyboo - Biography Coming Soon

Urban affairs correspondent: Guy Blaque:
Guy Blaque was born the son of a US senator and a Supreme Court justice. He is a graduate of MIT, where he earned a PhD in Advanced Particle Physics. At an awards banquet for his Nobel Prize in 1992, Blaque was approached by Robert Scheinstein to be a correspondent for BOR Radio. Unfortunately, Blaque was under the impression that he would be working as a science correspondent and accepted. Instead, Blaque found himself the newly-created Urban Affairs Correspondent. In 1998, Blaque quit after being assigned to cover the Fried-Chicken and Watermelon Festival, but returned in 2002 because of financial problems.

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