Is Glenn Beck's TV show hurting his radio show?

[Signal_Faded]

Re: Hey, I'm just a radio guy...but...

Fox News needs to bring in a consultant to light Glenn Beck's set.
He walks-around it, in-and-out-of shadows.

I get where you are coming from on this...I see it too...but it is obvious that this was an intentional look that they went for the show. The dramatic up lighting and stark whites seems to only heighten the drama.

Leave it to an consultant to try and get another consultant some work!

 

[del_griffith]

Not that I disagree with what you wrote, but how does a show that is losing content and presentation value either continue to grow or maintain it's audience?

My guess would be:

1. At the local level there's probably nothing that much better to listen to.
2. At the national level, program directors are choosing his show over others.

But the condition of the show seems to indicate a vulnerability that could be exploited. But it seems no one is rushing or even crawling to fill it.

 

[brian65]

Not that I disagree with what you wrote, but how does a show that is losing content and presentation value either continue to grow or maintain it's audience?

My guess would be:

1. At the local level there's probably nothing that much better to listen to.
2. At the national level, program directors are choosing his show over others.

But the condition of the show seems to indicate a vulnerability that could be exploited. But it seems no one is rushing or even crawling to fill it.

Maybe there's already too many in the market and as far as the listeners are concerned, 'been there, done that'.

They all have significant shortcomings.

Pull the syndication and bring back local hosts.

 

[justareporter]

All of this makes the quantum leap assumption that Beck's radio OR TV show are worth any time. Badly read and even less studied, Beck has opinions. So does everyone else. The only difference is that he manages to present his badly thought out and even worse proved opinions in an entertaining and interesting way.

He should go back to selling soap....errr...gold.

 

[Holland Cooke]

He "reads the room well."

All of this makes the quantum leap assumption that Beck's radio OR TV show are worth any time. Badly read and even less studied, Beck has opinions. So does everyone else. The only difference is that he manages to present his badly thought out and even worse proved opinions in an entertaining and interesting way.

AGREE.
He reads-the-room-well, and does a flamboyant show.

His radio show WAS better before he went back on TV.
And that effeminate voice-and-face he goes-into on TV still seems creepy, but, hey, it's working.
But there's no questioning his prominence among the various high school graduates currently critiquing public policy on AM radio.

But what'll trip-him-up before the factual gaffes we already hear/see him conveniently forget after-the-fact is when he goes a-word-too-far with the racial hate speech. Clearly, his "sending messages" in this fashion is a deliberate strategy. SO FAR, they've bought him publicity. He knows what he's doing. Beck is said to travel with pistol-packin' Security lugs, and to wear a Kevlar vest at big line-of-sight appearances.

Last week, the FCC Chairman told a Consumer Electronics Show session I attended that "the Fairness Doctrine is dead." That most-recent-of-many such statements notwithstanding, Beck is among the righties riding the Fairness Doctrine hobby horse...and damning the public concerns the FCC is hearing about radio's lack-of-localism. Ever notice how the-people-most-concerned-about-localism are syndicated talkers?

It won't be HIS problem if licensees end up required-to-convene community advisory boards as-a-consequence-of his pushing-the-limits-of polite speech on their air.

 

[brian65]

My biggest gripe about Beck's radio show are his 'morning zoo' co-hosts.

I find their constant giggling and goofy voices too much of a distraction from what ever it is they're trying to say, if anything.