Air America was mostly boring, so I guess I agree.
-
Get involved.
We want your input!
Apply for Membership and join the conversations about everything related to broadcasting.
After we receive your registration, a moderator will review it. After your registration is approved, you will be permitted to post.
If you use a disposable or false email address, your registration will be rejected.
After your membership is approved, please take a minute to tell us a little bit about yourself.
https://www.radiodiscussions.com/forums/introduce-yourself.1088/
Thanks in advance and have fun!
RadioDiscussions Administrators
So who replaces David Bellavia?
- Thread starter Rob Piotrowski
- Start date
Air America was mostly boring, so I guess I agree.
Gotta agree with that too.
Irrespective to any ideology, talkradio used to be more unpredictable and more entertaining.
it is neither now.
Probably true. Which is why I say teaming one of his invisibility operatives would be awesome. Who doesn't find a bit of wacky entertaining?
Also, does anyone still do the 'get drunk on the air' under a sheriff s watchful eye thing anymore? Y'know, to demonstrate drunk driving issues. That was both entertaining and meaningful, IMO.
Drunk driving is so passe now. Listeners won't care.
Now texting while driving, that's far more dangerous and much more the "in" thing. Not sure how you demonstrate that on-air though.
Getting drunk on the air as a promotion may be passe, but "drunk driving" is most assuredly not. It's serious and it claims lives. As to "texting while driving," (and reading texts)... yes, lethal.
Speaking for myself, WBEN is on my(admittedly)very short list of "dead to me" stations.
If I want my news, I'll go to WBFO-FM to get it. Or Toronto's 680News. Or the CBC. (Both of them do reach the Buffalo market; 680's signal isn't super-great, but it is listenable. Also, the CBC has not only 99.1, but they have a translator at 90.5 in Crystal Beach(neither signal is any great shakes, but-again-you can hear them.)
If I want my news, I'll go to WBFO-FM to get it. Or Toronto's 680News. Or the CBC. (Both of them do reach the Buffalo market; 680's signal isn't super-great, but it is listenable. Also, the CBC has not only 99.1, but they have a translator at 90.5 in Crystal Beach(neither signal is any great shakes, but-again-you can hear them.)
*blows his whistle....* Foul on the last message! Overestimating Limbaugh's reach! 15 post penalty! Loss of down!
Seriously, you're using the weekly reach. Divide that over 5 days, and you get 3 million/day. Impressive to be sure, but not as mind-blowing as you say it is.
And let's not forget that in the past few years Limbaugh's show has suffered some station losses as well as moves to stations that bring in a fraction of the ratings he used to get(which see, Boston's Talk 1200 as well as it airing on an Indy SPORTS station). David already broke it down earlier, so I won't repeat his analysis.
That is not how cume works. Cume is based on listening in one qualifying quarter hour in a week. If a person listens every day, they still count just one time, not five or more. Cume is the unique persons reach of a show, a daypart, a station or even a cluster (caveat: stations cumes can not be added without special software as one station's cume includes cumers of dozens of other stations).
However, with most talk based shows, whether on news/talk stations or morning shows on music stations or sports talk shows have an average of around 3 to 3.5 different days of the Monday-Friday week of usage. So if the weekly cume of a talk show is a million, the daily cume is going to be in excess of 500,000 (of course, this varies by station and even by the content of a show).
On the subject I also believe syndicated shows are sold on AQH, not cume.
- Status