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Question about obscene content or cursing on the air.

firepoint525 said:
As did Steve Miller with the album version of "Jet Airliner," as I mentioned earlier in this thread. Apparently no harm no foul if no one complained. But that was then, this is now.
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I couldn't find the cross-reference, but I seem to remember Larry Flynt running ads on WLW with F-bombs, which cannot be censored when you're a legally qualified federal candidate. That had or has been tried at the Supreme Court level.
There was a guy who always ran for Congress from Kentucky, just to run anti-semitic and conspiratorial advertising.
 
gr8oldies said:
I couldn't find the cross-reference, but I seem to remember Larry Flynt running ads on WLW with F-bombs, which cannot be censored when you're a legally qualified federal candidate. That had or has been tried at the Supreme Court level.
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If true, did that not put stations in a bit of a "no-win" situation? Don't play Flynt's spots that contain F-bombs and you get taken to court. Air them and you find yourself in hot water with listeners who complain to the FCC.
 
Mikey Radio said:
If true, did that not put stations in a bit of a "no-win" situation? Don't play Flynt's spots that contain F-bombs and you get taken to court. Air them and you find yourself in hot water with listeners who complain to the FCC.
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Well, the complaints aren’t actionable, since the law requires they air, so the FCC is irrelevant in this. You do lose goodwill with those listeners, though you can offset that with outreach (newspaper ads, social media, promos on your own air) explaining to listeners the rules requiring campaign ads to air unedited, and that the individual candidates are solely responsible for the content of their ads.
 
michael hagerty said:
They expand in a linear fashion. They had nothing north of the San Francisco Bay Area for the longest time. About four years ago, they opened Ukiah, California, then three in southern Oregon.

Part of it has to do with the company's hard-and-fast rule that they won't open a restaurant more than a day's drive from their own distribution facilities. They bought a piece of land in Tualitin (suburban Portland) a few months ago. If they establish a presence in Portland, they'll put a distribution facility there and be in a position to expand up into Washington State.
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Actually they have been in far NorCal Redding since the 80’s.
 
seatownmedia said:
Actually they have been in far NorCal Redding since the 80’s.
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1999, with a second 20 years later, but I wasn’t aware of that.

www.redding.com

Redding's second In-N-Out opens with owner Lynsi Snyder making appearance

The second location is at the Churn Creek MarketPlace shopping center.
www.redding.com

So, Redding in 1999, Ukiah in 2017 and Redding again in 2019—all from the Lathrop distribution center. To go further north than the southern Oregon locations, they’ll need another distribution center.
 
seatownmedia said:
Ok, I was remembering Carl’s Jr. in Redding from the 80’s, this before their expansion into the northwest. I regret the error.
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You do know that, at least in SoCal, it is a criminal offense to confuse a Carl's Jr. with an In-N-Out?

(Punishable with a 1,000 car waiting line for your next In-N-Out visit)
 
michael hagerty said:
1999, with a second 20 years later, but I wasn’t aware of that.
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I thought that the back story of today's owner of In-N-Out having worked "behind the counter" at the first Northern CA store over 20 years ago was interesting. And she seemed to really enjoy taking pics with the staff at the new location.

I'm told that, like her dad and granddad, she often spends time in the kitchen and at the counter and talks with the staff. That alone may explain why they are so successful. Fewer suits, more aprons.
 
DavidEduardo said:
I thought that the back story of today's owner of In-N-Out having worked "behind the counter" at the first Northern CA store over 20 years ago was interesting. And she seemed to really enjoy taking pics with the staff at the new location.

I'm told that, like her dad and granddad, she often spends time in the kitchen and at the counter and talks with the staff. That alone may explain why they are so successful. Fewer suits, more aprons.
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She's had quite the troubled youth...


"Snyder took ownership of her father's share of In-N-Out (50% of the company) on her 30th birthday, and inherited the balance of the company that was not already in trust for her when her grandmother Esther died. Snyder gained full control of the company when she turned 35."

Looks like she's finally grown up sufficiently to run that enterprise. Good for her.
 
michael hagerty said:
Well, the complaints aren’t actionable, since the law requires they air, so the FCC is irrelevant in this. You do lose goodwill with those listeners, though you can offset that with outreach (newspaper ads, social media, promos on your own air) explaining to listeners the rules requiring campaign ads to air unedited, and that the individual candidates are solely responsible for the content of their ads.
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I've heard that on religious stations that by law, have to air ads from Democrats. Of course, in response to "why are you running ads for baby-killing, Satan-worshipping Democrats?"
 
gr8oldies said:
I've heard that on religious stations that by law, have to air ads from Democrats. Of course, in response to "why are you running ads for baby-killing, Satan-worshipping Democrats?"
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Hence why the vast majority of religious stations are, in fact, non-commercial. Then, they can sneak in their own ads, while rejecting others.
 
ZantennaG1 said:
Hence why the vast majority of religious stations are, in fact, non-commercial. Then, they can sneak in their own ads, while rejecting others.
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I don't know how that works, if they are even allowed. I would think if a candidate "underwrote" a non-com, the same opportunity would need to be offered to an opponent.
 
michael hagerty said:
Thanks, Big A! I've never listened, or not long enough to realize they carried spots.

As to gr8oldies question, I'm guessing Democratic candidates would probably have higher priorities for those ad dollars and the issue doesn't come up much.
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I suppose they could still do a market buy. They may not assume everyone who listens to The Fish is a Republican.
 
gr8oldies said:
I don't know how that works, if they are even allowed. I would think if a candidate "underwrote" a non-com, the same opportunity would need to be offered to an opponent.
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They (think K-Love/Air-1) just refuse to run all ads, even ones they support, and then they go back and make under-the-table type of partnerships (like with CCU, for instance). The reason why they can do this, I suspect, is because it qualifies as an announcement rather than an ad?
 
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