Anything bigger then about 25-30,000 is too big for me and thats even pushing it.
2000 people in a nice town in Nebraska was perfect, as lower 48 towns go.
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Anything bigger then about 25-30,000 is too big for me and thats even pushing it.
2000 people in a nice town in Nebraska was perfect, as lower 48 towns go.
The ones that irritate me the most are in commercials. "We specialize in all makes and models of vehicle!" How? You're not a specialist if you specialize in every manufacturer. And "for all your XYZ requirements!". Be creative. I used to write this stuff and I cringe when I hear the nonsense going out in commercial breaks now.
And don't get me started on illiterate script writers or VOs. I keep hearing one commercial that says something-or-other is "subject to illegibility".
And don't get me started on illiterate script writers or VOs. I keep hearing one commercial that says something-or-other is "subject to illegibility".
But do you do poetry readings?
We have a "title pawn" business where I live. The jingle and slogan are "I got my title back with Title Max". Uhh.....didn't you give them your title in the first place?"
I wonder how much, in the hallowed radio 60s, the constant time checks were a necessity as opposed to a crutch.
A medium sized city is just right for me, though where I live is having growing pains from a big influx of people who can take remote work with them, and like MAGA politics and non-existent gun laws
That escalated to a point that it didn’t need to go rather quickly.
ACTUALLY, we did regularly way many years ago and have done a few since ive been here!
If its local, done/performed by a local, theres a damn good chance, ill put it on the air, whatever it is if someone brings it to me
Necessity as in FCC rule? No. But necessity as in "Our PD says we need to give the time and our call letters every time we come out of a song set."? Yes.
I almost always give time checks whenever i open the mic here at KSKO
At my first radio job down in a small, backwards deep south town that no longer has a radio station, wed get letters about twice a year from patients at the local mental hospital because we didnt announce the time often enough so they didnt know when to take their meds. (back in 03/04)
This reminds me of the station in Mexico City, XEQK, which rand 11 5" spots and a 5" time check each minute. That was very successful through the 80's, or until people could buy a cheap digital watch. Before that, a watch cost more than the weekly pay of most workers, so the station was quite useful!
With talk formats and podcasting those time checks get in the way of editing down the live version for the podcast. People listening to the podcast don't care about the time checks.
With clocks everywhere now the time check is less relevant in station breaks. There are other ways to give an indication of time, 5 minutes past the hour, bottom of the hour.
With clocks everywhere now the time check is less relevant in station breaks. There are other ways to give an indication of time, 5 minutes past the hour, bottom of the hour.
The country stations I listen to most up here never actually give the time, but both tease their noon and 5 p.m. features: classic country at noon and requests (new and old) at 5 on one, a "Top 5 at 5" countdown of the day's most requested current songs on the other. But if the listener doesn't have a watch or clock handy, they'll have no idea how close to or far from the special feature they are, as the jocks start promoting those features at least 90 minutes beforehand! Another aggravation for the time-deprived: DJ chatter at :48 at the end of a shift tells you that "Betty's in next at 2," but you never actually hear Betty's voice until three songs past the top of the hour, around :12. So again, is it 2 o'clock yet? All the listener gets is an approximation. Even the legal ID is usually off by a couple of minutes.
Many stations run the legal ID at the time of the stopset that crosses the :45 quarter hour boundaries. In other words, around 15 minutes away from the top of the hour.
Oh please, let's not start another TOH ID timing-legality debate. We've managed to dodge that topic for quite a while.
Of course, and as one who got a notice of violation once when the requirement was +/- 2 minutes from the top or the hour, the criteria now has not specific window except the "open to interpretation" term of "a natural break in programming".
(I think I just wound it up just to see if it crashes into a wall...)
Somehow I doubt that sort of NAL would be issued today. Even if some nerd turned your station in,
Here's hoping!
Right, but you'd think that dealing with country songs, most between 2:30 and 3:30 in length, hitting :00 more precisely than :02 or :03 wouldn't be a huge problem. But as you say, the top-of-the-hour part of the legal ID is no longer a requirement, so there was probably no reason to be bringing the whole thing up in the first place. Deepest apologies to all offended by my triggering yet another TOH ID exchange.
Unless the FCC was adding it to a string of other violations, sort of like charging someone with "failure to pay the sales tax on the illegal drugs"
The point is that most stations with "modern" formats don't use the call letters for their identity. So, to avoid confusion and distraction, stations want to put them in the least noticeable place possible, such at the end of a stopset or even buried inside the stopset.
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