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NJ 101.5 CONTEST FLAME-sounds cheap!

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GeorgeJetson

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For one-month listeners are tormented with this stupid contest. What do they win? A job. No cash prize, no cruise vacation, no house, no. The winner still has to work and it is a sad commentary on society when a person has to suffer embarrassment and humiliation only to have hundreds of losers and one winner that still has to work. I boycotted this contest. They cannot afford me.

$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$-Last night I hear a girl bitching about spare change to buy a can of soda. Gee, you would think a big station like that can afford a few cans of free soda and bottled water for the air staff and guests. The whole station is very sad and sounds cheap. Perhaps on some later day I will give more free advice. For now the best jobs are the ones I do for free. Best of luck and I always work where most needed. I expect the next contest to offer a large cash prize, tax free, perhaps $5,000,000 or more. Otherwise it isn’t worth my time.
 
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Stupid? It got your attention, didn't it. It's a promotional stunt and a very effective one.

> The winner still has to work

From reading this board, you should know there are all sort of people who would drive over their grandmothers for a chance to work in radio.

> It is a sad commentary on society when a person has to suffer
> embarrassment and humiliation only to have hundreds of
> losers and one winner.

I guess you don't watch any of the Reality TV shows (or game shows).

However, don't expect them to hire the winner.

> They cannot afford me.

Do they want you?
 
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> Stupid? It got your attention, didn't it. It's a
>
> I guess you don't watch any of the Reality TV shows (or game
> shows).
>
To start with, I expect radio to out shine TV. You are correct; I have no time for mindless television. I listen to radio for something better, original, not some cheap copycat. Besides, TV stations do not use contests to hire talent. They use agencies. Even the biggest New York radio stations would never stoop that low. As for me, I have outgrown New Jersey and unless I am on a network I could never afford to live here working in New Jersey radio. As a stunt, I can be happy it isn’t some filth or racial attack as has been resorted to often, however I must object to the exploitation of those droves of new talent looking for work. I doubt many experienced radio people will participate and the position may not be right for a newcomer. Also this is the worst time shift and they never stated anything about pay. This is not a giveaway, just another fake job scam. Taking callers on the air is one thing, but the hundreds of let downs and time wasted in human life cannot justify the prize. A job is a job, not a trophy. A compromise would be a cash consolation prize for all the sore losers they will end up with. Anything less far cheapens the station. Life is bad enough putting up with all those commercials, and now this. Airtime could be better spent covering current events and new topics. I am sure when the ratings come in you will better understand my point. Ratings or not, radio is in big trouble competing with new technologies. I always welcome new creativity and I will push for better programming.
 
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I don't disagree but your comments remind me of a paper by U of Penn sociologist Irving Goffman called "Cooling the Mark Out." He basically says life is a con game. He focused mostly on college applicants and job applicants and how all the people who didn't get it are treated.

If NJ101.5 advertised a talk show opening on All Access and the other job sites (which they did, actually), they would get - what - a hundred, maybe many times that, responses. They would report to the EEO how many places they posted their opening and how many responses they got (the more the better). Most places never reply to the packages they receive. Most of the time, the PD knows who he wants to hire and the ad is just to keep the EEO happy. Any job opening is like a talent contest. Most are scams.

Colleges also encourage students to apply, knowing most of them won't or can't get in. The more applicants they turn down, the more "selective" they are. That gives them a higher rating with US News and helps them attract money. Same kind of scam here.

Attractive women flirt with guys they have no interest in. Part of the game.

Airlines overbook.

Part of the con for NJ101.5 is that they are letting professionals into the game. Every once in a while, these star searches do pay off. The guy doing traffic on channel 10 got the job by winning a contest.
 
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Well, if all those losers are so desperate to take the abuse of the interview process with the two morons on late day, then that's their problem. It's hard to have sympathy for people who are so desperate for attention that they will (BLEEP) themselves out this way. These "hosts" love to rely on fat jokes, "I'd tap dat" comments, boob jokes, racial jokes; in other words all the same, lame tactics every other main stream radio dj takes. Every state has them. They all sound like half-assed Howie wanna-be's. Been done to death before, and it really wasn't that funny to begin with. As for intelligent radio, well, don't look to hard on this cheesey station for that. It's basically the Reader's Digest version of radio, nothing too serious, nothing too challenging. Not much content--commercials, weather, traffic, maybe 5 minutes of some sort of content, followed by more commercials, weather, etc. How many weeks were listeners subjected to mindless and pointless in-station interviews with the bimbos for the calendar? The lame poker crap, etc.? My roommate listens to this junky station so I'm subjected to it daily as I walk around my house. Just to be subjected to the older guy cackling hysterically at basically everything the loud mouthed guy says. He sounds like a barking circus seal (aaack aaack aaack). These two are about as unintelligent as it gets. Usually the callers are the most interesting part of a radio talk show, but this station seems to attract every brain-dead moron in the state who would call in even if the "topic" was nose-picking. If the listeners rely on just this station for their sanitized and dummed-down news (and doesn't bother to read or listen to intelligent real-issue radio)than that would explain a lot about why we have what have in Trenton. Also, what idiot thought that adding reverb to voices that already scream into the microphone was a good idea? Probably the same one who came up with the "concept" of car commercials that screech at the listeners. Can't believe I'm saying this but David Lee Roth sounds 100 times more intelligent than anything NJ 101.5 could ever produce.
 
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> Can't believe I'm saying this but
> David Lee Roth sounds 100 times more intelligent than
> anything NJ 101.5 could ever produce.


Too bad that 101.5 has 100 times the ratings and 100 times the billing that David Lee Roth could ever produce. EL OH EL.
 
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