Fox News Radio - comments

[mightynine]

Rather than get bogged down in the other thread, I thought I'd start a new one so you can comment on the new 5 minute casts (or 2 minutes, or whatever your station might be clearing).

- Quality's a lot better than the one minute casts. Call me crazy, but hearing a reporter lock out a report with "Fox News Radio" brings the level up a notch. I have heard some recycled TV sound bites in there, but it's nowhere near as often as in the one minute casts. I would assume that the one minute casts will be able to dip into those radio reports as well.

- I like the use of the bed throughout the whole cast, gives it a bit of energy. However, they need to do something different coming out of the :03 spot. The anchor will just start talking and the bed will just go. They might want to remix something with the announcer saying "Fox News Radio". But that's me.

- I know people are going to say FNR is more "conservative", but in the reports I've heard, I don't hear anything different than the reporting on CBS Radio News (the previous TOH cast my station carried). In truth, I've always thought you just don't have enough time in a TOH radio cast to be really "biased" in the first place.

All in all, it's a nice sounding cast. It will be interesting to see how the network grows from this point.

 

[pdxmitch]

> Rather than get bogged down in the other thread, I thought
> I'd start a new one so you can comment on the new 5 minute
> casts (or 2 minutes, or whatever your station might be
> clearing).
>
> - Quality's a lot better than the one minute casts. Call me
> crazy, but hearing a reporter lock out a report with "Fox
> News Radio" brings the level up a notch. I have heard some
> recycled TV sound bites in there, but it's nowhere near as
> often as in the one minute casts. I would assume that the
> one minute casts will be able to dip into those radio
> reports as well.
>
> - I like the use of the bed throughout the whole cast, gives
> it a bit of energy. However, they need to do something
> different coming out of the :03 spot. The anchor will just
> start talking and the bed will just go. They might want to
> remix something with the announcer saying "Fox News Radio".
> But that's me.
>
> - I know people are going to say FNR is more "conservative",
> but in the reports I've heard, I don't hear anything
> different than the reporting on CBS Radio News (the previous
> TOH cast my station carried). In truth, I've always thought
> you just don't have enough time in a TOH radio cast to be
> really "biased" in the first place.
>
> All in all, it's a nice sounding cast. It will be
> interesting to see how the network grows from this point.

I just listened to their TOH update, and I was surprised that I really didn't have an opinion about it. It sounded a lot like the other networks' newscasts. And on bias, it would primarily be in the story selection, but the other networks already know when to lead with talk radio's controversy of the day. I think the main reason to use Fox would be to either associate the station with conservative talk listeners' favorite TV channel or, in the case of a station that already carries a lot of Fox talk, to keep brand continuity. The content itself really isn't much different, at least so far.

 

[bierkenstock]

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[Les]

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Had Rupert Murdoch entered The U.S. by swimming the Rio
Grande or hacking his way through the Canada/Vermont
border wilderness to avoid following the rules, I doubt
he'd own a TV station here. A newspaper...well, that'd
be hard to tell since most favor illegal immigration.

But he didn't sneak in. He followed the rules. Up to
now I haven't heard any Fox newscast, radio or TV,
favoring halting legal immigration. Only illegal.
Though I do understand that some folks find that
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[2001]

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> > Typical of Fox-loving conservatives: Rules are for other
> > people. This is how Rupert Murdoch got where he is. (Fox
>
> > objects to aliens coming into this country to work, unless
>
> > they own a chain of newspapers and TV stations.)
>
> Had Rupert Murdoch entered The U.S. by swimming the Rio
> Grande or hacking his way through the Canada/Vermont
> border wilderness to avoid following the rules, I doubt
> he'd own a TV station here. A newspaper...well, that'd
> be hard to tell since most favor illegal immigration.
>
> But he didn't sneak in. He followed the rules. Up to
> now I haven't heard any Fox newscast, radio or TV,
> favoring halting legal immigration. Only illegal.
> Though I do understand that some folks find that
> word incomprehensible.
>


Les, is that you in that picture?? If so, I gotta say, you kinda look like my old high school gym teacher!--Only he was forever clutching a pencil and clipboard everywhere he went!....And I don't see any pencil and clipboard in that photo! LOL

 

[Les]

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> Les, is that you in that picture?? If so, I gotta say, you
> kinda look like my old high school gym teacher!--Only he was
> forever clutching a pencil and clipboard everywhere he
> went!....And I don't see any pencil and clipboard in that
> photo! LOL

Yeah...photo was taken at the KNOM transmitter site with the
wind from the East at about 40-MPH. Not squinting for the
sun; rather for the wind. Pencil and clipboard flew away.

BTW...That big Anixter dish is no longer used. The supports
are 8-inch diameter steel pipe, driven 35 feet into the
ground. The FM (in town) tower rests on three "H" beams,
each consisting of several welded end-to-end and driven
52 feet to bedrock. Still, one of them "jacks" and pretty
soon is gonna have to be cut off and re-capped 'cause I'm
running out of adjustment for the other two legs.
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[robbbc]

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> > Typical of Fox-loving conservatives: Rules are for other
> > people. This is how Rupert Murdoch got where he is. (Fox
>
> > objects to aliens coming into this country to work, unless
>
> > they own a chain of newspapers and TV stations.)
>
> Had Rupert Murdoch entered The U.S. by swimming the Rio
> Grande or hacking his way through the Canada/Vermont
> border wilderness to avoid following the rules, I doubt
> he'd own a TV station here. A newspaper...well, that'd
> be hard to tell since most favor illegal immigration.
>
> But he didn't sneak in. He followed the rules. Up to
> now I haven't heard any Fox newscast, radio or TV,
> favoring halting legal immigration. Only illegal.
> Though I do understand that some folks find that
> word incomprehensible.
>
My brother (a Lawyer)informs me that the word illegal means you don't have a good lawyer. I beleive that Fox News has no problem with people using legal means gettting into the country: those well fed Europeans, Canadians and Australians need our opportunities for a better life far more then the hungry yearning to be free. The rules, my friend, were written to keep the European Jews and the Catholics out, then later the Asians, now the Hispanics. Happy to see the legal immigration of wealthy Australian Businessmen to our country to subvert FCC ownership rules is now a lovely idea because it is legal and the fellow has a lot of lawyers. If only hard-working people from Mexico had that kind of money they too could be "legal" immigrants. Murdoch comes from a country with labor laws, strong democratic traditions, and ample opportunities for success. He needs US citizenship about as much as I need more poundcake.

 

[dampier]

> - I know people are going to say FNR is more "conservative",
> but in the reports I've heard, I don't hear anything
> different than the reporting on CBS Radio News (the previous
> TOH cast my station carried). In truth, I've always thought
> you just don't have enough time in a TOH radio cast to be
> really "biased" in the first place.

Don't you believe it. Fox is regularly guilty of slanted word choice. Not a day goes by when you can't hear loaded phrases like "our heroes" instead of "American soldiers" or "liberal Democrats" applied universally. "Some say"/"Many people believe"/"It's been widely reported" are all very common methods Fox anchors inject opinion into what should be straightforward reporting. In most cases, it aligns with the Ailes memo of the day which is distributed every morning instructing reporters/anchors/hosts on the issues they are to focus on, often including the angles they are to concentrate on.

They also love to employ the "we" when dealing with Republican guests. Recent examples include, "we have enough votes to override" coming from a Fox anchor while interviewing a Republican senator on the "nuclear option."

In five minute newscasts, it will all be about the choice of stories, the soundbites chosen to accompany them, and the tone of the anchor. If they rely on their television side to provide this, you get all the bias their viewers get.

FNC as a news product is trash and I frankly wouldn't trust their radio reports anymore than I'd trust the TV side. As an opinion motivator, as a companion to conservative talk formats, or for entertainment/light reporting, they fit like a glove. I would never permit a serious news operation that stands for credibility and unbiased reporting to be associated with Fox News.