Air America in 2006: Live or Tape Delayed?

[Tom_]

Listeners to "Seattle's Progressive Talk AM 1090" (KPTK-AM) debate the issue of tape delaying Air America programming on this AM 1090 sponsored message board:

http://www.am1090seattle.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=254

This brings up some interesting questions that Air America will need to address in 2006:

?Should the network exert greater control over affiliates who tape delay Air America programming in favor of Jones programming or Bill Press?

?Should AAR require that Randi be on live?

?Should AAR place Franken and Hartmann in seperate time slots so that stations do not have to choose one or the other?

The first post from the link gives these numbers (I can't verify the accuracy of the numbers):

"The Air America network offers 116 hours of original programming per week and gives affiliates 52 unprogrammed hours for local content, reruns and syndicated content (AirAmerican offers 15 hours for syndication on top of the 116 network hours)."

(Then the poster breaks things down for 1090's hours. I can't verify the authenticity of any of the numbers and percentages about AAR, Jones, and 1090 on the posts.)<P ID="signature">______________
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[Tom_]

Hartmann and Franken

Any thoughts on the potential for AAR to syndicate Hartmann 6am-9am (out of KPOJ), with Al Franken 9am-NOON Pacific?

Then stations WITHOUT the other AAR hosts (...who currently have Hartmann 9am-NOON, e.g. Pittsburg, Monterey, NorthBend, Fortuna, GrandRapids...) could tape delay Hartmann TO 9am-NOON (the current live time slot).

I don't know about this - just a thought.

Then stations like 1090 could put Randi back on at 3pm instead of tape delaying Franken afternoons.<P ID="signature">______________
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[Oldbones]

> This brings up some interesting questions that Air America
> will need to address in 2006:
>
> ?Should the network exert greater control over affiliates
> who tape delay Air America programming in favor of Jones
> programming or Bill Press?
>
> ?Should AAR require that Randi be on live?
>

Either move would be further shooting themselves in the foot. Very few hosts have the clout to insist that their shows be run live...none of them are syndicated by AA. Even Stern was run tape-delayed on WBCN in Boston for several years in the 90s. Rhodes??? Gimme a break! Aside from a handful of markets, AA is an also-ran network running on a bunch of dog stations...for them to make unreasonable demands on affiliates would lose them far more than it would gain. Maybe AA should just move Rhodes' show to nights since that's when most affiliates seem to move her anyway.

 

[Gnarlodious]

Next comes the bidding war...

> Any thoughts on the potential for AAR to syndicate Hartmann
> 6am-9am (out of KPOJ), with Al Franken 9am-NOON Pacific?

That sounds great, except that the Hartmann PDX critter is working for Clear Channel. I sure can't imagine them getting arranged with AAR, not when they have a local winner in Portland.
I'd say AAR missed a beat when CC snapped up Hartmann, but they're doing an admirable job of sharing him. Must have been some bargaining to broadcast out of a CC studio into AAR syndication.

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[kaufcom]

> Maybe AA should just move Rhodes' show to nights
> since that's when most affiliates seem to move her anyway.

Excuse me. AAR has about 80 affilites. I don't think any of them carry Rhodes in the evening. I think you've been spending too much time listening to KLSD.<P ID="signature">______________
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[Tom_]

> > Maybe AA should just move Rhodes' show to nights
> > since that's when most affiliates seem to move her anyway.
>
>
> Excuse me. AAR has about 80 affilites. I don't think any
> of them carry Rhodes in the evening. I think you've been
> spending too much time listening to KLSD.


KPTK 1090 / Seattle/Tacoma has Randi Rhodes M-F 6p-10p.<P ID="signature">______________
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[bierkenstock]

No excuses. Pay attention. The PT stations which carry Ed Schultz (that's most of them) bump Rndi. In the East and Mid-West, Randi gets bumped to evening hours. Maybe your brain, like your clock, runs three hours slow. Do a little home work and lay off the lame jokes.

>
>
> Excuse me. AAR has about 80 affilites. I don't think any
> of them carry Rhodes in the evening. I think you've been
> spending too much time listening to KLSD.
>

 

[OldAkronite]

> No excuses. Pay attention. The PT stations which carry Ed
> Schultz (that's most of them) bump Rndi. In the East and
> Mid-West, Randi gets bumped to evening hours.

Just to confirm one example - our local PTer, WARF/1350, runs Randi 6-10 PM, after Mr. Schultz. It's a similar situation at many other Clear Channel run libtalkers in the eastern part of the country, for one.

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[PeakLimiter]

Nice NEW nick Tom! RF90? Puhleeeze...

RF90...The new nick for Tom the Seattle DX'r who hasn't ever worked a day in radio in his life and has this odd and bizzare fascination with the 1090 freq. in Seattle. Ask the Seattle board sometime about good ole Tom.

> Listeners to "Seattle's Progressive Talk AM 1090" (KPTK-AM)
> debate the issue of tape delaying Air America programming on
> this AM 1090 sponsored message board:
>
> http://www.am1090seattle.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=254
>
> This brings up some interesting questions that Air America
> will need to address in 2006:
>
> ?Should the network exert greater control over affiliates
> who tape delay Air America programming in favor of Jones
> programming or Bill Press?
>
> ?Should AAR require that Randi be on live?
>
> ?Should AAR place Franken and Hartmann in seperate time
> slots so that stations do not have to choose one or the
> other?
>
> The first post from the link gives these numbers (I can't
> verify the accuracy of the numbers):
>
> "The Air America network offers 116 hours of original
> programming per week and gives affiliates 52 unprogrammed
> hours for local content, reruns and syndicated content
> (AirAmerican offers 15 hours for syndication on top of the
> 116 network hours)."
>
> (Then the poster breaks things down for 1090's hours. I
> can't verify the authenticity of any of the numbers and
> percentages about AAR, Jones, and 1090 on the posts.)
>

 

[SaltyDog]

Re: Nice NEW nick Tom! RF90? Puhleeeze...

> RF90...The new nick for Tom the Seattle DX'r who hasn't ever
> worked a day in radio in his life

That would include most of the people who post on News/Talk. It seems to be more of a fan site; the majority of comments have to do with the relative airworthiness of various talk hosts based on their political positions.<P ID="signature">______________
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[Tom_]

Re: tom

Hi Tom:

AS U know, There are at least six very high profile and widely respected "toms," including YOU, who work in broadcasting in various capacities within the Seattle market.

You don't know if you're writing tom mccurley, tom pierson, tom bourning, tom clendening, tom hutler, tom mccarty, or someone else.

Give it a rest, my friend.

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[Tom_]

Re: Political posts vs. Radio posts...

> That would include most of the people who post on News/Talk.
> It seems to be more of a fan site; the majority of comments
> have to do with the relative airworthiness of various talk
> hosts based on their political positions.

Too bad they post only from their political positions without any insight or knowledge into how to build ratings and revenue for progressive talkers...

It's a RADIO industry board, not a political board...



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