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Early Sunday Morning Radio

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Sahisko

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I was driving home from work early Sunday morning and I was scrolling through the radio dial and a lot of the Pittsburgh stations play what seem to be radio infomercials early in the mornings on Sunday. In fact, WWSW, WXDX, and WDVE were simulcasting some drug rehab place with a DVE jock interviewing some lady. How much do companies shell out for these radio infomercials each week? I guess they figure no one listens to the radio early on Sunday mornings. lol
 
They may be public service segments, pre-recorded.

In that case, no shelling out involved.
 
Sahisko said:
I was driving home from work early Sunday morning and I was scrolling through the radio dial and a lot of the Pittsburgh stations play what seem to be radio infomercials early in the mornings on Sunday. In fact, WWSW, WXDX, and WDVE were simulcasting some drug rehab place with a DVE jock interviewing some lady. How much do companies shell out for these radio infomercials each week? I guess they figure no one listens to the radio early on Sunday mornings. lol
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Sunday mornings is the traditional "burial ground" for required public service programming that you need to air in order to prove that you're still serving the community. The bad thing is, that kind of programming is almost aired simultaneously on every station in Pittsburgh. So for a period of about an hour or two, you can hardly hear music anywhere.

I know that WLTJ was airing "American Equity Mortgage" infomercials with Ray Vincent on the overnights, since time during that daypart is all but free.
 
hour-long paid infomercial to cleanse your colon
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No, I think that's "Into the 70s".

Or, at least that program has the same effect on me.
 
that program has the same effect on me.

All of 3WS's programming does that to me, especially their Christmas music selection.
 
"Saturday Light Brigade" has been on Sun. (or Sat.?) mornings lately on 1550 the Edge (WURP). Wasn't SLB on 91.3?

They seem to use a little bit of everything over there (Westwood One syndication, SNR, the left-wing loser network who's name I can't think of, local pgming and who know what else). I never see any ratings posted for WURP -- is that because they're below a .1?
 
The shows you are referring to are done by Sean McDowell for all of the Clear Channel cluster and are pre-recorded public affairs shows. Since Clear Channel doesn't have anything that even vaguely resembles a News Director they've given it to one of the jocks to do along with a million other things on a Wednesday or Thursday afternoon. Its the same stuff its always been and no money changes hands because that would have to be noted in the public file. Trust me, there are more oranizations out there than you realize who want a hunk of that time.
 
Snafu said:
Trust me, there are more oranizations out there than you realize who want a hunk of that time.
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And they're not always legitimate, I might add.
 
Re: Early Sunday Morning Radio -SLB

pfa said:
"Saturday Light Brigade" has been on Sun. (or Sat.?) mornings lately on 1550 the Edge (WURP). Wasn't SLB on 91.3?
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Hi all. Long time lurker, first time blah, blah, blah, etc. As an SLB fan, I can answer that: SLB left WYEP a couple years ago and moved into studios in the Children's Museum (pretty neat set-up - I got the tour during a visit last year). The show airs Saturday mornings 6a-noon on CMU's WRCT, WURP, and the 91FM WSAJ at Grove City College. Larry does a good job - the show is campy, but I find myself listening to it when I can pick it up.
 
The reason I first bought satellite radio because of early Sunday morning radio My mom did not sleep well and would get up and listen to the overnight show on KDKA. At one point KDKA started to play the the program length commericals. She would try to scan the dial but did not have much luck. I went out and got a xm radio a skyfi and set the the memory buttons on to the talk channels and a few music channels. I guess KDKA did return to la talk show to the time slot but mom never went back to KDKA except for Mike Pintak
I bought my XM radio although I listen to talk radio I now listen music more often because the wide selection
 
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