xm is reducing his show from 4 to 1hour a night what are they doing? there cutting everything back why cant they cut okrah wtf any opinions?? ???
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bruce williams
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Does XM have a cooking show or something? ???
Bruce has been on the air since the days of NBC TalkNet in the mid '70's, probably even longer. I hadn't heard him for a long time until I got my XM radio. He voice sounds really old, time for the gold watch.
Bruce Williams is now self-syndicated after losing his syndication arrangement with Business Talk Radio Network. His new show is more about his political opinions (A conservative who thinks FDR saved the country and we need to rescue GM because of what they did in WW2 building tanks) than giving out financial advice.
From my limited listening, his only sponsors are companies he has a financial interest in. The most recent new product I heard advertised on his show is "crunchy" Jersey Pork Roll hotdogs - only $25 for 3 pounds shipped right to your door. ($8/lb?)
Being on Sirius/XM also is not a way to endear yourself with the large radio owners. He is streaming on about 10 terrestrial radio stations, none of them "big" stations. The most powerful stations he is on (that stream and I've found) are 1 kW at night (KJFF [Festus, MO], WOSH [Oshkosh, WI], KAST [Astoria, OH], WJQS [Jackson, MS], and WRTA[Altoona, PA]). WOSH (Cumulus) is the only "corporate" radio station in that list.
His show has 2 major strikes against it - AM stations lose most of their audience when the sun goes down and the power is cut to night time levels. Also, I've noticed a strong pattern that the stations that do carry Bruce Williams are the ones that also carry local sports in the evening. Basically, his show is free filler for nights the station doesn't have a high school basketball game to put on the air.
I grew up listening to Bruce Williams in high school. It's really sad when a performer doesn't know when to get off the stage.
From my limited listening, his only sponsors are companies he has a financial interest in. The most recent new product I heard advertised on his show is "crunchy" Jersey Pork Roll hotdogs - only $25 for 3 pounds shipped right to your door. ($8/lb?)
Being on Sirius/XM also is not a way to endear yourself with the large radio owners. He is streaming on about 10 terrestrial radio stations, none of them "big" stations. The most powerful stations he is on (that stream and I've found) are 1 kW at night (KJFF [Festus, MO], WOSH [Oshkosh, WI], KAST [Astoria, OH], WJQS [Jackson, MS], and WRTA[Altoona, PA]). WOSH (Cumulus) is the only "corporate" radio station in that list.
His show has 2 major strikes against it - AM stations lose most of their audience when the sun goes down and the power is cut to night time levels. Also, I've noticed a strong pattern that the stations that do carry Bruce Williams are the ones that also carry local sports in the evening. Basically, his show is free filler for nights the station doesn't have a high school basketball game to put on the air.
I grew up listening to Bruce Williams in high school. It's really sad when a performer doesn't know when to get off the stage.
I don't know that it's so much sad as it is remarkable. Bruce Williams is obviously finding a way to make a living doing this program after all these years. That's amazing.
I used to listen to his show all over the radio dial at night when I was a kid trying to tune in far away AM radio stations. He and Sally Jesse Rafael were a big deal in radio at the time. Years later I ran the board for a radio station that ran his program live from 7-10pm. He was still pretty entertaining 15 years ago. I always enjoyed the fact I could hear his Boston Terrier snoring away next to him in the background.
I'll have to tune in one night to hear what he sounds like now. I'm sure it's not the same. I'm sure he's got a very different audience. I'm just impressed he's managed to figure out a way to stay on the air.
I used to listen to his show all over the radio dial at night when I was a kid trying to tune in far away AM radio stations. He and Sally Jesse Rafael were a big deal in radio at the time. Years later I ran the board for a radio station that ran his program live from 7-10pm. He was still pretty entertaining 15 years ago. I always enjoyed the fact I could hear his Boston Terrier snoring away next to him in the background.
I'll have to tune in one night to hear what he sounds like now. I'm sure it's not the same. I'm sure he's got a very different audience. I'm just impressed he's managed to figure out a way to stay on the air.
I don't get why this is such a big deal to him. Isn't Bruce still syndicated to many local stations? Satellite radio shouldn't make up much of his audience if such is the case.
He's not the first to do this either. Other syndicated personalities have been very upset over the loss of a satellite radio simulcast, for no real reason in my opinion. Hosts like Ed Schultz, Sam Seder, Kim Kommando, Tim Brando, and even some local hosts who aren't even syndicated. Listenership to a terrestrial based show on satellite shouldn't amount to much more in cume than if said show was on a good signal in a city like San Antonio. I bet if Sean Hannity or Dr. Laura lost their spots they wouldn't even care. Then there's Rush and Neil Boortz and Clark Howard, who don't even WANT to be on satellite. Or the rare case of Michael Savage, who got Sirius and XM to quit running his show.
He's not the first to do this either. Other syndicated personalities have been very upset over the loss of a satellite radio simulcast, for no real reason in my opinion. Hosts like Ed Schultz, Sam Seder, Kim Kommando, Tim Brando, and even some local hosts who aren't even syndicated. Listenership to a terrestrial based show on satellite shouldn't amount to much more in cume than if said show was on a good signal in a city like San Antonio. I bet if Sean Hannity or Dr. Laura lost their spots they wouldn't even care. Then there's Rush and Neil Boortz and Clark Howard, who don't even WANT to be on satellite. Or the rare case of Michael Savage, who got Sirius and XM to quit running his show.
Part of the problem, to me anyway, is that Bruce was replaced by yet another rightwing talk show host. This would be Roger Hedgecock, out of San Diego. HIs show isn't all that great, he was discussing the burning issue of should he go to his high school class reunion a few days ago. Who cares? Most of his show seems to be about California politics, so why does he have a national show? Maybe Bruce is getting up there in years, but I get a lot more from his shows than from Mr. Hedgecock.
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