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Callers and Caller-driven radio

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pittdave

We seem to be back on this idea that either the ticket or espn needs more callers.
Lets get it out in the open... The Ticket DOESNT WANT Callers, esp Mike. The explosion of sports-talk radio has allowed any yahoo with a homeric view of his team access to the airwaves. The last thing most of the hosts want to listen to is a bunch of vacuous nonsense coming from Joe Cowboy fan. I guarantee The Hardline only takes Cowboy calls because they are forced into it as the flagship station. If you remember from a few years ago, there would be maybe one segment after a Cowboy game and you could tell he was totally beaten down by that much. Just think to how completely defeated he would sound if we was on pre or post game duty. There are plenty of us out there who can spout of stats and who can give a decent take on things, but we are so few and far between that we get lost in the tidal wave of the irrelevant and incompetant of the airwaves.
This same problem has worked its way into news talk as well, but the fewer callers there are more the result of Mr. Talk Show Host thinking he has the way to save the world and only his opinion matters.
It would take at least six months of The Ticket going 'all callers-all the time" to weed out the riff-raff and get to good interaction between host and caller, and that has about as much chance as T.O. keeping his mouth shut.
The vast majority of the hosts at the Ticket have the "I'm on the radio and you're not" attitude and look upon the masses as second-class citizens. You see it at remotes all the time. They don't want to talk sports, which can be understood since they are having to do it on-air, but it leaves the P1 jilted and with a rather dim view of the host. It is a job to them, so the last thing they want to do is break down Cover-2 during down time. It works the same in FM, Your basic classic rock fan doesn't want to spin at the Bone, If you to listen to AC/DC at home, you certainly don't want to listen to it all day long at work.
This is just another one of those 'that's just the way it is' deals and nothing is going to change it anytime soon.

PD
 
Pittdave
After typing "the Ticket doesn't want callers" you were wasting calories.

If you listen to The Ticket then you know they could care less about callers, except for Norm. Then, you better be able to get past one of the best producers in the business, in my opinion.
 
firstimelongtime said:
Then, you better be able to get past one of the best producers in the business, in my opinion.
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There have times when I have had longer pre-call conversation with Fredo than with Norm on-air. True statement there, FTLT
 
The TICKET's Hardline should just disappear. They are terrible, and dont talk enough about sports. Only T&A talk. I am a woman, who likes sports, but I do not enjoy these grown men sounding so pathetically desperate.

Someone needs to put them and the listeners out of their miseries!!
 
Given The Ticket's success, they are far from miserable. If you don't like 'em, fine. More than enough people do to keep them around for quite awhile.

As far as callers go, not asking for them tends to make the ones you get far better. If you go on the air depending on them, they won't come. If you go on the air not needing them, they tend to be golden.

Buck Henry did a great skit on Saturday Night Live years ago that was spot on. A compelling host is what drives compelling calls. And there is nothing more valuable than a great producer.
 
jdean said:
A compelling host is what drives compelling calls. And there is nothing more valuable than a great producer.
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Too bad the Hardline can't figure that out. Most people would get fired for having that kind of disdain for listeners.
 
VERITAS DE VOCE said:
Too bad the Hardline can't figure that out. Most people would get fired for having that kind of disdain for listeners.
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I get a kick out of listening to people talk about how an extremely successful radio station, with its extremely succesful hosts, is "doing it wrong".
 
yardape101 said:
VERITAS DE VOCE said:
Too bad the Hardline can't figure that out. Most people would get fired for having that kind of disdain for listeners.
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I get a kick out of listening to people talk about how an extremely successful radio station, with its extremely succesful hosts, is "doing it wrong".
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Ape, don't mistake commentary for envy. KTCK is greatness. I am self-indulgent FTLT P1. My commentary is for a station to be that successful, it had to start somewhere... and that was catering to its demo. You know, us? Nowadays, those same people are only considered for giveaways, GNOs and other station events. IJS, I don't like it... but alas, my radio is usually stuck when I'm not checking the news or KLIF.
 
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