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“Super chat” funding for Brokered Radio Talk Show?

Intheairnevada

Intheairnevada

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There is a talk show that references a “super chat”..so does that mean you get your comment read on air if you donate to the show? It is a brokered show in Las Vegas on 1400am ..one of those shopping stations where you call in and bid to get a discount pizza coupon, etc. Has anyone heard of this used to fund a brokered show?
 
that sounds like a youtube thing.... and sure, why not fund a show any way you can?
 
I thought this station had been sold awhile back to KD Radio. Maybe they are keeping the shopping/sports format, instead of flipping to their Oldies brand.
 
KilowattKat said:
I thought this station had been sold awhile back to KD Radio.
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The sale was only approved three weeks ago, and if it has been consummated the filing of same can't happen during the government shutdown.

Whatever is happening there at the moment is under the existing ownership.
 
K.M. Richards said:
I rather doubt that any additional options are going to be looked at by the soon-to-be-replaced owners for a soon-to-be-replaced format.
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I only posted the link to show @Intheairnevada and anyone else who was wondering how Super Chats and Super Stickers work in general. I had no idea about Super Stickers before I found that link I posted, none of the live streams I watch use them.
 
Anyone have a device or desktop to radio broadcast set up? Where you can buy radio time from your computer , pay with credit card and put your content out from your home or office?
 
I've heard of such stations doing quite well. The one I'm thinking of is computer driven wih online sales only. When a listener buys an item it reflects on remaining inventory and the pre-programmed voice stating the quantity remaining is updated. Businesses paid a $100 fee and had to give away a certain amount of merchandise that would be sold at a discount on the air. They told me they were billing about $125,000 a month. The station also had a want ads/classifieds that were $5 a day. Birthdays and Anniversaries were $20 and you could record your own 30 second commercial at $5 to $25 each depending on airtime. They were all church programs Sunday morning.

I think there is one in Jacksonville, FL.

This particular station sold about 8 years back.
 
I believe, when a new format takes over (and who knows when the government shutdown will end), that will be the end of the shopping show format on the radio in the U.S. It was a format that never really took off--the only other station I know of to try it was, if memory serves, the 1280 station licensed to Aurora, Illinois, which I believe is now all conservative talk.
 
b-turner said:
I've heard of such stations doing quite well. The one I'm thinking of is computer driven wih online sales only. When a listener buys an item it reflects on remaining inventory and the pre-programmed voice stating the quantity remaining is updated. Businesses paid a $100 fee and had to give away a certain amount of merchandise that would be sold at a discount on the air. They told me they were billing about $125,000 a month. The station also had a want ads/classifieds that were $5 a day. Birthdays and Anniversaries were $20 and you could record your own 30 second commercial at $5 to $25 each depending on airtime. They were all church programs Sunday morning.

I think there is one in Jacksonville, FL.

This particular station sold about 8 years back.
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WJXR 92.1?
 
SomeRadioGuy said:
WJXR 92.1?
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It's been gone for over a decade, but yeah. And WRMN 1410 in Elgin, a sister to 1280 in Aurora, also did radio shopping for a while.

Even KSHP has been down to only an hour or two a day of the radio shopping show in recent years. Everything else is either leased time or sports.
 
Intheairnevada said:
Is anyone still doing “tradio” ?.?
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As a full-time format? No. However, if you listen to, or peruse, schedules for a lot of small market radio stations online, you will find shows with names like "Tradio,", "Shop & Swap,", etc. where individuals, not businesses, can seek to buy, sell, or trade personal items. Some have limits on the value of the items that can be bought, traded or sold, while others don't.
 
Being at a station that does a Tradio program, it's no the buy, sell and trade that is the draw, we let birthdays and anniversaries get announced. The real draw is hearing people the listener knows. It's sort of the community check-in and reconnect with the community. There are regular callers. There's one guy that calls in a corny joke. Listeners know the host. We have been sold out for 4 years and we have a couple of people waiting in the wings for someone to drop off.
 


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