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A Question About KIRO News

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WKomm

This is a small thing but I honestly would like input ...

In general I like KIRO news. I like the morning news show, Tony Minor does a great job and most of the cub reporters manage to get through their brief casts with minimal mangling. What I really dislike is the traffic bed. Every single time I hear that car horn, when in MY car, I jump a bit. It's inbred in us - hear a horn and react. I feel the same way about using car horns or sirens in radio ads. Very, very distracting. Might even be dangerous. I can truly see a scenario where someone driving and unused to the KIRO bed would hear that horn and slam on the brakes, jerk the steeering wheel or, if sitting at a light might take it as a signal from the car behind to get going and plow into another car or venture through a red light.

Comments?
 
I guess the horn doesn't bother me because I'm used to it. Either that or it's thanks to living in NYC for several years - really makes one immune to horn beeping. What IS a bit irritating is the "rock and roll traffic" music bed. I know it's needed to project that "younger generation" sound, but at times it drowns out the reporters using the 2-way.
 
SRP - No matter WHAT KIRO does, they will never, ever capture the younger generation. Never. And certainly not by using some bogus generic music under traffic with Roadrunner beeps and a staff of 50 plusers who rant about Ron Sims or Dish Network or how much they weigh or what's awesome.

In KIRO's case, if there's any hope of capturing younger demos, it's by simply being yourself. Having Ron & Don giggle through the afternoon or Doris pimping for a retirement community or Burbank herniating himself from straining to raise the hip bar is obvious to even casual listeners. We're living in serious, dangerous times. I say more news, less talk. More serious leadership and less bee-ess over who has the most Facebook friends.

Of course that won't happen. Today's turned-upside-down radio world means KIRO will never settle for solid adult numbers. More, more, more is the mantra. Cue the Andrea True Connection!
 
Like SRP said horns aren't so bad, but I absolutely hate it when realistic sirens are used in any way on the radio...every single time I hear that sound, instinctively I start looking in my mirrors until I realise its just sound effects, which in turn, tics me off.
 
WKomm said:
This is a small thing but I honestly would like input ...

In general I like KIRO news. I like the morning news show, Tony Minor does a great job and most of the cub reporters manage to get through their brief casts with minimal mangling. What I really dislike is the traffic bed. Every single time I hear that car horn, when in MY car, I jump a bit. It's inbred in us - hear a horn and react. I feel the same way about using car horns or sirens in radio ads. Very, very distracting. Might even be dangerous. I can truly see a scenario where someone driving and unused to the KIRO bed would hear that horn and slam on the brakes, jerk the steeering wheel or, if sitting at a light might take it as a signal from the car behind to get going and plow into another car or venture through a red light.

Comments?
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While we are on the topic of horns, I would like to voice my pet-peeve about car alarms that when activated or de-activated sound just like a horn. It always makes me look around to see who is honking at me. Totally pisses me off! Why can't car alarms make a more alarmy kinda sound like they used to? Why do they have to sound exactly like the horn?
 
Re: A Question About Car Alarms

Mack Daddy said:
Why can't car alarms make a more alarmy kinda sound like they used to? Why do they have to sound exactly like the horn?
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That's an easy one. The ones that sound "alarmy" are aftermarket alarms that don't use the car's horn. The ones that sound like car horns are usually factory installed alarms that are hooked up to - you guessed it - the car horn!
 
Re: A Question About Car Alarms

SeattleRadioPro said:
Mack Daddy said:
Why can't car alarms make a more alarmy kinda sound like they used to? Why do they have to sound exactly like the horn?
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That's an easy one. The ones that sound "alarmy" are aftermarket alarms that don't use the car's horn. The ones that sound like car horns are usually factory installed alarms that are hooked up to - you guessed it - the car horn!
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I know that! But WHY do they hook them up that way? It's retarded, 'cause it always sounds like people are honking their horns. The aftermarketers got it right on this one!
 
Re: A Question About Car Alarms

Mack Daddy said:
I know that! But WHY do they hook them up that way? It's retarded, 'cause it always sounds like people are honking their horns. The aftermarketers got it right on this one!
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Another easy one. A lot of times factory alarm systems are part of "option packages" so car horns are used to save the automakers money. Aftermarket alarms build the cost of the siren into the product purchase price.
 
Re: A Question About Car Alarms

SeattleRadioPro said:
Mack Daddy said:
I know that! But WHY do they hook them up that way? It's retarded, 'cause it always sounds like people are honking their horns. The aftermarketers got it right on this one!
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Another easy one. A lot of times factory alarm systems are part of "option packages" so car horns are used to save the automakers money. Aftermarket alarms build the cost of the siren into the product purchase price.
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I KNOW THAT! But it's still retarded because of the consequence it has on society. How hard can it be to hook up a alarm speaker? If someone can afford a 15, or 20 thousand dollar car they CERTAINLY should be able to afford an alarm that has an independant speaker! I think car alarms that sound like horns should be outlawed!
 
And I think all of it - alarms, sirens and horns - needs to be legally banned from any radio outlet for any reason.
 
Just a few days ago, I was driving over a major railroad crossing as Van Halen's "Running With The Devil" was starting. Yes... It got my attention!
 
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