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Opie & Anthony trash NAB commercial spots...even SIRUS people will like this

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>My bad, I mislabelled it initially a FREE FM spot. I had have been corrected >that it was a National Assotiation of Broadcasters spot. Either way, it is >pro-terretrial/anti-satellite spot that is farcical and a joke...

Opie and Anthony played some FREE FM spots while discussing terrestrial radio's refusal to step up, their univentive, fake and lame old formats will toll their untimely death. All three bits ended with the archaic land-line-payphone operator tone (paraphrasing) ".25 if you want to listen for the next 3 minutes". Two of the bits made me laugh in hysterics:

1) They played a faux baseball game and as the game went on, they cut in with ".25 for the next three minutes". How STUPID is that? First, if they cut into a commercial, as a terrestrial radio listener, you are handcuffed into either listening to the commercials or rumbling around your presets maybe listening to a tune or two. Well, MAYBE one or two tunes if you can find a station NOT playing commercials. Um, note to satellite radio haters...ESPECIALLY with the playoffs going on and the races get tighter, if you had satellite radio you could listen to COMMERCIAL FREE music oooooor you could tune into another game that could be playoff crucial!! How about if you're a transplant from another city? If I listen to WEEI Boston I am forced to listen to the Red Sox...but what if I am a Brewer fan? Terrestrial radio = wait for score updates. Satellite = flip over to the Brewers game and hear your local announcers call your team!

2) Another FREE FM spot had an announcer with her AWFUL, fake radio voice talking how a HUGE star was arrested on stage. What they were arrested for was SO AWFUL they can't tell you exactly what they did, BUT IT WAS AWFUL!! Then the operator tones kick in and ".25 for the next three minutes" plays. HAHAHAHA that add played RIGHT INTO satellite's hands. As Opie & Anthony proved with the Pat O'Brien tapes, as TV and terrestrial radio gagged and teased how horrendous his language and requests were, O&A played the tapes 100% unaltered and unedited. The FREE FM ad is actually 100% wrong because satillite radio isn't handcuffed by FCC restrictions so they didn't need to tease the tapes like that fake DJ played to do. The FREE FM radio had to coy and tease the tapes. Satellite radio would have not only told you WHO got arrested but WHAT they did without any play on words (can you say Gary Glitter news updates?).

3) Maybe terrestrial radio has lost almost 8 million people because of there horrendous math skills. .25 for the next three minutes? WHAT? Let's put FREE FM's math to the test:
60 minutes x 24 hours a day = 1440 minutes per day
1440 mpd x 365 days a year = 525,600 minutes per year
12.95 sat. cost per month x 12 months per year = $155.40 per year
$155.40/525,600 = .000296 per minute a year...oh it gets even BETTER!
.000296 x 3 = .000888 the ACTUAL cost of three minutes per year
.25/.000888 = 281.531532 minutes you'd receive for .25
281.531532/60 min. per hour = 4.692192 HOURS of commercial free music you would get for .25

FREE FM claims .25 for 3 minutes, MATH claims 281.53 minutes. Now 281.53 minutes with barely a dolt of a DJ with fake radio voice, 281.53 minutes of commercial free music, 281.53 minutes with songs radio haven't played in YEARS taht may be your fave songs...wow, makes me glad I subscribe to satellite radio even more than before....

<P ID="edit"><FONT class="small">Edited by AllForADeuce on 12/30/05 02:11 PM.</FONT></P>
 
Re: Opie & Anthony trash FREE FM commercial spots...even SIRUS people will like this

> Opie and Anthony played some FREE FM spots while discussing
> terrestrial radio's refusal to step up, their univentive,
> fake and lame old formats will toll their untimely death.
> All three bits ended with the archaic land-line-payphone
> operator tone (paraphrasing) ".25 if you want to listen for
> the next 3 minutes". Two of the bits made me laugh in
> hysterics:
>
> 1) They played a faux baseball game and as the game went on,
> they cut in with ".25 for the next three minutes". How
> STUPID is that? First, if they cut into a commercial, as a
> terrestrial radio listener, you are handcuffed into either
> listening to the commercials or rumbling around your presets
> maybe listening to a tune or two. Well, MAYBE one or two
> tunes if you can find a station NOT playing commercials. Um,
> note to satellite radio haters...ESPECIALLY with the
> playoffs going on and the races get tighter, if you had
> satellite radio you could listen to COMMERCIAL FREE music
> oooooor you could tune into another game that could be
> playoff crucial!! How about if you're a transplant from
> another city? If I listen to WEEI Boston I am forced to
> listen to the Red Sox...but what if I am a Brewer fan?
> Terrestrial radio = wait for score updates. Satellite = flip
> over to the Brewers game and hear your local announcers call
> your team!
>
> 2) Another FREE FM spot had an announcer with her AWFUL,
> fake radio voice talking how a HUGE star was arrested on
> stage. What they were arrested for was SO AWFUL they can't
> tell you exactly what they did, BUT IT WAS AWFUL!! Then the
> operator tones kick in and ".25 for the next three minutes"
> plays. HAHAHAHA that add played RIGHT INTO satellite's
> hands. As Opie & Anthony proved with the Pat O'Brien tapes,
> as TV and terrestrial radio gagged and teased how horrendous
> his language and requests were, O&A played the tapes 100%
> unaltered and unedited. The FREE FM ad is actually 100%
> wrong because satillite radio isn't handcuffed by FCC
> restrictions so they didn't need to tease the tapes like
> that fake DJ played to do. The FREE FM radio had to coy and
> tease the tapes. Satellite radio would have not only told
> you WHO got arrested but WHAT they did without any play on
> words (can you say Gary Glitter news updates?).
>
> 3) Maybe terrestrial radio has lost almost 8 million people
> because of there horrendous math skills. .25 for the next
> three minutes? WHAT? Let's put FREE FM's math to the test:
> 60 minutes x 24 hours a day = 1440 minutes per day
> 1440 mpd x 365 days a year = 525,600 minutes per year
> 12.95 sat. cost per month x 12 months per year = $155.40 per
> year
> $155.40/525,600 = .000296 per minute a year...oh it gets
> even BETTER!
> .000296 x 3 = .000888 the ACTUAL cost of three minutes per
> year
> .25/.000888 = 281.531532 minutes you'd receive for .25
> 281.531532/60 min. per hour = 4.692192 HOURS of commercial
> free music you would get for .25
>
> FREE FM claims .25 for 3 minutes, MATH claims 281.53
> minutes. Now 281.53 minutes with barely a dolt of a DJ with
> fake radio voice, 281.53 minutes of commercial free music,
> 281.53 minutes with songs radio haven't played in YEARS taht
> may be your fave songs...wow, makes me glad I subscribe to
> satellite radio even more than before....
>

I feel the same way. These commercials are downright insulting. I jsut find it funny that they're pushing "free" FM not realizing that people are going to satellite because the free one completely sucks these days. People are finding it worth their money to get what they want. Terrestrial radio has been homogenized beyond belief and the music programming has been simply awful. They jsut don't get it and refuse to accept that they are the ones in fact pushing their listeners to satellite radio. People are just not happy with "free" radio these days. Terrestrial radio is "free" simply because it is now crap. The magic is gone.
 
Re: Opie & Anthony trash FREE FM commercial spots...even SIRUS people will like this

I think terrestial radio is blowing it with their refusal to consider that subscription services might be the way to go.

The problem I see is that only the music channels are commercial-free. I have a fully-loaded 4GB Nano and an excellent docking station for my dashboard. Who needs terrestial OR satellite? Sure there are other offerings on Satellite but then you're right back to commercials.<P ID="signature">______________
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Re: Opie & Anthony trash FREE FM commercial spots...even SIRUS people will like this

> I think terrestial radio is blowing it with their refusal to
> consider that subscription services might be the way to go.
>
> The problem I see is that only the music channels are
> commercial-free. I have a fully-loaded 4GB Nano and an
> excellent docking station for my dashboard. Who needs
> terrestial OR satellite? Sure there are other offerings on
> Satellite but then you're right back to commercials.
>


I think you reiterate a very very good point. Radio might be fairly up-to-date when it comes to equiptment, but their mentality is still way way behind. I thought of iPod-type devices after my post. Radio is not only competing with satellite, but the massive amount of strage devices carried around in our hands is dissolving radio's relevance from the rear. I won't listen to terrestrial radio so I utilize sattelite while you utilize your iPod. Radio refuses to do anything to combat these two technologies and thusly have two less people listening to terrestrial radio.
 
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