Posted on 09/29/2017 4:24:42 PM PDT by Dr. Sivana
What the heck has happened to I HEART RADIO, a hub of conservative talk radio? I used to listen a lot, but now my local AM talk station, in southern Geogia no less, has been repeatedly playing an add for a podcast audiobook/audio drama called "Alice Isn't Dead", about a lesbian truck driver searching for her missing "wife" [sic]. How big is the butch dyke audio drama podcast niche that a deep south station in a military town is compelled to run that ad, and constantly? I can barely tolerate the constantly repeat airing of the same "This year in hit music 1970" or what not. Is it like this across the country? Does I Heart Radio have a ratings death wish? Or am I stuck with a local programming manager who either doesn't have a clue, or does have an agenda?
I dunno, but I quit using iHeart a year back due to attempted iHeart privacy intrusion. Haven’t looked back.
Tunein seems to be still OK, but headed in the wrong direction slowly.
I notice sometimes that Internet streams of radio stations will run continuous ads and PSAs. That usually indicated they are having technical difficulties.
Sometimes those show up on several different stations carrying the same talkshow, and sometimes it will be only a single station stream.
I tire of the PSAs. Most are banal: “Be nice” or “talk to your children” but the moment President Trump signed immigration executive orders they started in with the “love an immigrant” crap.
I listen to Mark Simone on iHeartRadio. He’s on WOR-710 in NYC from 10-12 mornings. You can get the podcast later in the day. He’s a Trump supporter.
Corporations becoming femininized, politicized and radicalized.
Levin has his own app, as do others, which I use when their TuneIn stream stops.
Sometimes though it’s the iPhone.
An iPhone reboot fixes the issue often. So much for “it just works”.
Certain Tax and Corporate Structure Information
• Based on recent trading prices of Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc.’s Class A common stock and subject to certain assumptions, the Company estimates that a taxable disposition of all of iHeartMedia Inc.’s interest in Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. would give rise to taxable gain in excess of $3.7 billion.
• The Company currently estimates that as of December 31, 2016, iHeartCommunications, Inc. had a tax basis in the stock of its direct subsidiary Clear Channel Holdings, Inc. in excess of $4 billion and that Clear Channel Holdings, Inc. had an estimated aggregate tax basis in the stock of its direct subsidiaries engaged in the iHeartMedia business segment of approximately $3.4 billion.
• The Company estimates that as of December 31, 2016, its tax basis in the domestic fixed and intangible assets related to the iHeartMedia business segment was approximately $1.1 billion and that its basis in the domestic fixed and intangible assets of the Americas Outdoor business segment was approximately $520 million.
• As of December 31, 2016, Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries had a federal net operating loss carryforward of approximately
$275 million and iHeartMedia, Inc. and its subsidiaries (excluding Clear Channel Outdoor Holdings, Inc. and its subsidiaries) had a federal net operating loss carryforward of approximately $2.9 billion.
Hmmm .. even Clear Channel takes advantage of "tax breaks" like carry forward losses.
iHeartRadio parent warns it may not survive another year, MarketWatch, 4/25/17
Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity face uncertain futures with iHeartMedia, Salon, 4/24/17
Another Batch Of Talent Cuts At iHeartMedia, RadioInsight, 5/25/17
iHeartMedia edges closer to bankruptcy with 2Q loss, New York Times, 8/3/17
They and Cumulus were customers of the last two companies I worked at. Very hard selling to them, drive hard bargains, and pay late.
I have trouble using I heart Radio. It just times out on me. But then I only really listen to CoasttocoastAM or Savage, and, at that, only rarely, because Savage is just so damn bipolar. Usually it’s FM for me. The one classic rock station in a sea of stupid rap down here in Houston.
Can’t listen to the 49ers live. Their stations don’t even post that it’s on. In this day and age you would think there’s an app allowing for a 15 second delay, the better to be in sync with the snap of the ball. One game a week. NFL is not good enough for more.
I hate PSAs! The tax payer money that goes into producing them, the money that goes in to the administration of the department, the commercial time they eat up that the station could be selling to legitimate businesses is such an economic waste! I would hope Trump would do away with them.
They are searching for a way to stave off bankruptcy. instead they will speed it up.
The more media companies that die the better
They are searching for a way to stave off bankruptcy. instead they will speed it up.
Politics is downstream of culture. You’re seeing the Obama effect. Don’t let him win.
I like Mark Simone.
We’re all queer now. Just like we are all racisssss.
Stations only air PSAs when they have commercial time slots open with nothing to fill them.
The regulations used to be that one half hour per week was to be given to community service. Recently, however, the FCC has relaxed this standard, leaving PSAs to local broadcasters and the guidlines recommended by their trade. association. Stations are not required to play PSAs but use them as filler.
What station are you referring to?
This may not be specific to I Heart Media.
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