Nothing underground. From time to time, I've heard K-Love run local or regional underwriting....but not politics. K-Love has more of a general audience so I'm not thinking they would do anything political.
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Question about obscene content or cursing on the air.
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K-Love is non-commercial. They don't run ads and can't run ads.
They promote other non-commercial organizations that the work with in their outreach programs, but don't run paid ads.
Yep, that's what I was thinking. Because it's not technically an ad, they have greater control on what airs, and in a way, I think that is helpful.
Let's talk political advertising. This is a strange animal where by law you must charge your posted lowest rate as the rate you charge for political ads. You cannot choose who advertises. You either accept political advertising or you don't. You can't make choices. You can be conservative talk and a liberal candidate could buy as many ads as they chose to buy on that station.
Public supported stations, called NCE, are generally prohibited from political activity but that comes from the IRS. A politician could underwrite but cannot present his/her position in that underwriting or say anything as would be considered part of their ad. Simply who you are, probably the party and position you are running for and nothing else. An NCE can run a political forum where all candidates are invited as a public service.
EMF doesn't refuse ads. EMF stations are NCEs or Non-Commercial Educational stations and prohibited by law from running advertising. They can run Underwriting just as you hear on NPR.
Public supported stations, called NCE, are generally prohibited from political activity but that comes from the IRS. A politician could underwrite but cannot present his/her position in that underwriting or say anything as would be considered part of their ad. Simply who you are, probably the party and position you are running for and nothing else. An NCE can run a political forum where all candidates are invited as a public service.
EMF doesn't refuse ads. EMF stations are NCEs or Non-Commercial Educational stations and prohibited by law from running advertising. They can run Underwriting just as you hear on NPR.
Speaking of "obscene" ads, have y'all heard the latest radio ad for that one financial mobile app provider? As funny and clever as it is that they put a censor over every-time someone says "Quickbooks", it gets rather annoying if you hear the ad a dozen ties per week. I mean, how childish is that ad for doing that? I mean, it makes it sound like the radio is glitching out, when it's not. Overall, the ad leaves a bad taste, and I'm probably not going to go with whoever it was. Nu...something. See, they emphasize their competition and that's what I remember, 🤣
The last religious station that I worked for ran ads for candidates of all stripes, but then again, they were "dollar-a-holler." I don't remember much, if any, controversy from airing them. I only remember this because a few of them came up during my shift.
We also carried the weekly presidential address, along with the Republican response. (Clinton was pres. at the time.) I don't remember any controversy with that either. But our station set aside 15 minutes for them, and they rarely used more than 10, so I was usually left filling the extra time with NOAA weather radio forecasts.
We also carried the weekly presidential address, along with the Republican response. (Clinton was pres. at the time.) I don't remember any controversy with that either. But our station set aside 15 minutes for them, and they rarely used more than 10, so I was usually left filling the extra time with NOAA weather radio forecasts.
Yeah that is funny. But understand back in the 80’s neither Carl’s or In-n-out were in Oregon or Washington. I tend to lump them together because on trips to California we would always seek out franchises that were not available in the PNW. Of course Carl’s has been in WA for many years now, but In-n-Out has not moved in. Some think the Dick’s franchises in western Washington might be one reason for lack of
In-n-out. But don’t know if that is the real reason, I think the distribution center in Oregon is the real reason.
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Until they made Carl walk the plank, Carl's Jr and In-N-Out were more alike than not.
The In-N-Out rule is that no store can be more than 600 miles from a company-owned distribution center. They never freeze and do not use restaurant vendors like Sysco. The Lathrop center is 625 miles from Tualitin, so either In-N-Out is going to bend a rule or there's a distribution center going into the Portland Metro that I don't know about.
Anything north of Portland, though, will absolutely need a new distribution center. One in the Portland Metro would be able to serve Seattle, Spokane and Boise.
It was actually discussed earlier in the thread—-there was. But, it being three years after “The Bitch Is Back” and six after the Rolling Stones’ “Bitch”, most stations never bothered. I played it unedited in a town of 10,000 people for its entire chart run and never got a single phone call.
Ah got it, I was following this thread and it had not yet been mentioned, I meant to post that a while back but forgot. Of course by the time of “Bitch” by Meredith Brooks in the 90s I guess it wasn’t an issue.
Or just a year or two after, Rod Stewart’s “Ain’t Love a Bitch”.
Complete off topic but you made me think of it: Hardee's/Carl's Jr is the #4 burger chain in America!
In 2019, it was true…combined, Hardee’s/Carl’s Jr. just edged out Jack in the Box and Whataburger. But it looks like they took one helluva hit during the pandemic, while Jack, Sonic and Culver’s all gained.
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It’s now:
1. McDonalds
2. Wendy’s
3. Burger King
4. Sonic
5. Jack in the Box
6. Whataburger
Carl’s has officially split itself and Hardee’s into two separate chains for accounting purposes (go figure), but Hardee’s was 8th and Carl’s 10th, so let’s average it out and say 9th... meaning Culver’s is ahead of them and Five Guys is breathing down their necks.
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How do you explain Neil Sedaka's "Bad Blood"?
I don’t think it needs explaining. It was four years after the Stones, a year after Elton and adds to the rationale for not many people caring when Hall & Oates said the same word two years later.
It still was. A lot of stations would play that song, but the DJs were not allowed to mention its title. They'd just say things like "here's the new one from Meredith Brooks".
Well, but by 1997, jocks were much more restricted both in terms of time and content than they were in the 70s. In the 70s, whether the title of "The Bitch Is Back" was announced was, in a lot of cases, left up to the jocks and a lot of them said it, including on some very big radio stations.
That would be considered an "advertisement" pursuant to §399b(a)(3) of the Communications Act.
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