Posted on 03/14/2009 7:05:58 PM PDT by raccoonradio
If you hear public service announcements or Ad Council spots, you know that it's unsold airtime.
And it's death to on-air talent.
Most stations ran the unpaid spots only to keep the network clock in sync (so that the DJ wouldn't have to manually insert a network commercial or news break and thus miss that revenue too) or so that the DJ could go to the bathroom.
When AAR was in my area I tuned in fully expecting to be angered like watching Eleanor Clift. Instead I was completely bored. Rather than being so angered that I almost crashed the car, I had to turn it after only a few minutes so I wouldn’t fall asleep at the wheel and wasn’t even tired at the time. Until then I thought only NPR could make a radio snoozefest to an art form.
“On Monday, March 16th, AM 1290 WLBY will become Ann Arbor's Business Talk Radio.”
I wont give the source so people don't give them the web hits. I think you know who they are. (LTR )
Try WRKO in Boston
I remember when a station had to have a certain number of PSA spots during the day. Is that still required? I recall it definitely was a must for educational stations, not sure for commercial.
The left is always alleging some unseen conspiracy, but they never back up their allegations with factual information.
Guess I'm just another Right Wing Whack Job.
Gosh, hard to believe companies aren't falling all over themselves to advertise on his show.
Tuned in a couple times to what was then the Al Franken show.
One time he was joking about calling the show “Franken Sense and Mirth” and gabbing about his daughter going to some concert. Another time, just after the ‘04 election, he had someone on talking about how the GOP was committing voter
fraud. He and his guest both sounded —just after noon time— like you’d woken them up in the middle of the night.
As I’ve mentioned before, even a lib on a lib radio messageboard talked about how they just couldn’t enjoy
“the molasses-dripped voice of Al Franken”
I’ll give you three in case the main WRKO stream is down:
http://www.wrko.com
Sign up for Insiders and access the webstream
(You may also wish to sign up for the free Screamer Radio
which offers WRKO under “Talk and Comedy”)
http://www.wcrnradio.com
Offers online listening via Real, Winamp, or Windows
Media Player
It will flood radio with the kind of problem we experienced in the real estate market.
Subprime radio and toxic waste.
Oh good grief - I remember Lionel. His show used to be carried (second-tier syndication) in S.F. He was shrill and bugged the hell out of me.
I thought it was PBS.
Yeah, I know. He was always wrong but I guess his humor was on the same wavelength as mine. Of all the lefty shows, his was the only one I could stand for more than 10 minutes.
Now there’s an effort to raise money (private contributions, or getting advertisers) to keep the show alive (it is set to go off after next Friday). Apparently Collins himself has been funding the show (costs about $5,000/mo. to put on) but it’s just too much. On his site, Collins said he tried to get his show on Air America but they wouldn’t even listen to him—and now are putting on “tabloid” guy Montel Williams (just as they put tabloid guy Jerry Springer...)
So they’re scrambling to keep Collins’ show on. Liberal talk shows are being forced to have to rely on competing in the free market. And they are failing, hence that all-important push to bring the (un)Fairness Doctrine back.
It is said that at its peak libtalk had about 105 stations. It’s now down to 70, and recent format changes have
taken it off in Miami and Grand Rapids.
_People are tuning in to what they want to hear_..
conservative talk and liberals are frantic that their
shows are failing.
Too bad. It’s the free market. What sells, sells!
(effort to bring back the show:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Save_progressive_radio_boston/message/6141 _
Ha...see the following comment on that board. And I quote:
“We are trying to pick up the pieces after decades of theft, including a decade
in which a Democratic President* signed a law that allowed a handful of
corporations to pocket the airwaves that allegedly belong to the public. The
idea behind our group, and the idea behind the campaign to help Peter B., is
that we want to give progressive talk radio a boost so that it can reach the
point where it can sustain itself. Rush was propped up by the Republican Party
throughout many years when he lost money. Why can’t we have the same long-term
vision?”
*—You know the guy. “I’m going to tell you once again.
I want you to listen to me. I did not have sexual relations with that woman...” I think he’s referring to the Telecommunications Act of ‘96, signed by Bubba, which
enables companies to own more stations.
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