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Once again...Delilah returns
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And radio shows are a topic of conversation among all women you know? Which in itself isn't a representative sample of anything.
Delilah is not done live. As someone else on RD who's familiar with her show explained, she sits in her home studio and takes one call after another, her producers then grab the best ones, edit them for air and they're generally used in the following night's program. Stations that air her show have 2 options: 1) They can take her show complete, with both the callers, banter and the music selected by her staff, or 2) They can take the bits with the callers and banter, and insert music from their own libraries and play lists. Either way, it's either run as an automated program, or similar to a VT show.
I know, I think it's funny that CassChopper96 keeps suggesting they automate after 7pm when they already are.
Never met Delilah but I live just across the water from her on Vashon Island. Odds are we have probably even been on the same ferry boat going to or from Seattle for occasional business or travels.
Never met Delilah but I live just across the water from her on Vashon Island. Odds are we have probably even been on the same ferry boat going to or from Seattle for occasional business or travels.
Amusing the other night to be scanning through and pass what is now that show with Red Hot Chili Peppers playing. Perfectly acceptable for the station, just funny.
It's not really "automated". As Mikey nicely explained, the show, in several different music content versions, is "assembled" from Delilah's calls, her comments and imaging.
Many of the calls are edited, and the sequence of calls in each show is, for lack of another word, "balanced" as to content.
In this sense, it's sort of like the Ryan Seacrest show where he hardly ever goes to the studio in LA, but does workparts that are put together by the producer for balance and flow.
In all these cases, it's "live" the way Johnny Carson was introduced as "Live from beautiful downtown Burbank...." when he had actually recorded the show several hours before and it had been edited and prepped for later broadcast.
Minor point of order.. "Beautiful downtown Burbank" was Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In. Carson's intro was "Frooooom Hollywood! The Tonight Show staring Johnny Carson..."
I wondered about that... there are many search results that credit it to Carson. That, in itself, shows how much inaccurate "stuff" is out on the Internet in such a quantity that it becomes reality.
Your "point of order" is not minor. It shows how all of us can find seemingly accurate data in searches only to discover that we are partaking of a false piece of information.
Thank for pointing this out!
That's because Carson would explain that they're not really in Hollywood, but rather Burbank, and then make fun of Burbank.
I believe both shows, The Tonight Show as well as Rowan & Martin's Laugh In originated from the same location: 3000 W Alameda Blvd in Burbank.
"The Gong Show" was always introduced with "From Hollywood ... almost live!"
Also from the same building on Alameda in Burbank. I've been there many times.
That used to be on my bike route, but I like riding by the Disney HQ better, where the 7 dwarfs hold up the roof.
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I assume not that many people are listen to radio at night anyway. It would make no diffrence if they Just have no on air persoanlity and just play music until jen and bill came on
Or run the show that has been a successful enough program on many, many stations in your format because it does have appeal to the primary audience. And then run overnight music. Which seems like a better business proposition when you disregard whatever weird personal hangups one may have?
assumption does not mean you know the facts.
Like the fact that Delilah’s done a successful syndicated show for at least 25 years
Fewer people listen in night hours than 6 AM to 7 PM, but it is a gradual decline from 7 PM to midnight, with each hour having less until most people go to bed.
Rock from the 60’s thru 90’s was literally the best music ever recorded, makes sense why they lean toward the rock direction so they do well.
... only if you like rock. Not everybody does.
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