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Rumor Mill: WROC-AM Dumping Progressive Talk?

By the way, as a relative newcomer to this board and industry outsider, I'm too am impressed by its high levels of literacy, civility and even occasional wit. Now, if only they could be replicated on the airwaves.....
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That's a problem. You see, many of us on this board are no longer in the business and if we wanted to get back into the business, the business would not be interested. The days of Henry Morgan making commentaries on NBC Monitor are long over(ok, I'm old, so what?).

Is it possible that the voting populace is getting tired of the rancor, and will punish candidates who go too negative with their ads?
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Not at the moment. Ask Jack Davis.
 
cee said:
Is it possible that the voting populace is getting tired of the rancor, and will punish candidates who go too negative with their ads?
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Not at the moment. Ask Jack Davis.
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Jack Davis finished a poor 3rd in a 3-way race. That's what prompted the question.
 
Jack Davis finished a poor 3rd in a 3-way race. That's what prompted the question.
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Yikes. I guess negative ads didn't work for Jon Powers either(he's the guy who went into strip clubs or something?). Did winner Alice run negative ads? Still, there's plenty of negative ads gracing the airwaves these days. Look at the presidential campaign.
 
Calling Off the Attack Dogs

Alice ran an excellent ad poking fun at the other two who spent the campaign attacking each other. Kudos to her media people.
 
Kryzan's TV spot WAS excellent. The actors cast for the "Jack Davis" and "Jon Powers" characters were dead-on and Ms. Kryzan was very well-directed. Actually her commercial was an attack ad in itself, but was cleverly crafted as satire. It could well herald a new genre: "attack-with-humor" ads.

It certainly played better than: "my opponent is a crook." "Yeah, well, MY opponent goes to strip clubs and rips off disadvantaged kids!" "Yeah, well, I'M endorsed by the Courier-Express!" Ad - literally - nasueam.
 
Kryzan's no babe in the woods. Ooops, can I write such a thing given her gender and the faux hoopla over "lipstick on a pig?" Guess I just did. Her TV commercial was simple, direct, mildly humorous and dead on. Good writing, good acting, good photography. This should serve as a lesson for radio, as it applies to commercials and promos. The Lake, for example, continues to air those insipid babbling brook sweepers, while other stations still employ the lazer blasts and cacaphonous SFX blasts.

Another reason Kryzan's commercials are getting favorable reviews here is that Jack The Wack and Powers commercials weren't that great. It seems their handlers produced commercials they thought addressed the issues. Davis looks older than McCain. And Powers, despite being an Iraq war veteran, didn't get his "leadership message" across. Either that or the electorate wasn't buying the war-veteran-hero angle. This might serve as a lesson to the national candidates.

One more thing. As is usually the case for primaries, the turnout was paltry. And it was a three way race, which dilutes the averages. Kind of like Arbitron's in-tab sampling. Or three AC stations chasing the same demo. See... it's all connected to radio.

It also appears that rogue political websites had little impact on the elections here in Erie and Niagara counties.

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