It’s been an interesting day for AAR listeners in Chicago – the local station continued to broadcast in Chinese until at least 2pm according to the pre-show comments at Majority Report: The Network, Tonight, Next Week.

However, sometime around 3pm or so, AAR was back on the airwaves at WNTD AM950.

Listeners to Randi Rhodes show reported that the Chicago AAR staff wasn’t able to get in to the studio until then. My own personal theory is that someone walked off with the new keys after the locks were changed.

Here’s my list of items AAR studio staff should have in their emergency toolkits:

• Cell phone with legal eagles on speed dial
• Certified copy of court injunction
• Crowbar

That’s it! Just a suggestion. Glad it’s all worked out.

Well, I get to listen to their (admittedly not very good) signal again as I drive home, instead of getting an unwanted Chinese language lesson.

The weird thing is – the morning guy sounded a lot like Al. And it was starting to grow on me.