I agree with Nathan Obral - Brokered programming is financially affordable access to groups that have no voice elsewhere on the dial. I managed a station in Houston doing just that. We had Polish, Russian, Bangladeshi, Pakistani and many other ethnic groups and special interest groups buying time on the station including some churches. We had a two hour Texas Polish Polka program Saturday morning, for example. The average client was simply a member of the community that saw an opportunity and paid the cash to give it a try.
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What is Klove going to do with Len and Sara in Cleveland ?
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A station I sometimes listen to airs the Salem Radio Network (SRN) News updates at :00 and :30. Talk about over-sensationalism, 90% of the time they open with the line "Breaking News This Hour from SRN News", only to find out that their lead "Breaking News" story is HOURS old or not even a story that is THAT earth-shaking, and many times wouldn't qualify for the Breaking News moniker news sources 25+ years ago.
Instead, what is REAL "Breaking News" gets the tagline "This is an SRN 'Special Report'".
I know a lot of other Radio and TV news sources nowadays love to use Breaking News or similar taglines as often as they can for every little piece of fresh news happenings ("Breaking News, Kim Khardashian farts at a local Burger King"). Even worse when they continue to label it as such long after the story broke.
I also don't like that they have be be cutesy and have at least one reporter with a thick foreign accent each and every newscast that has to pronounce at least 3 or 4 American-ized words differently, almost as to show-off that they are a forreign correspondent.
Instead, what is REAL "Breaking News" gets the tagline "This is an SRN 'Special Report'".
I know a lot of other Radio and TV news sources nowadays love to use Breaking News or similar taglines as often as they can for every little piece of fresh news happenings ("Breaking News, Kim Khardashian farts at a local Burger King"). Even worse when they continue to label it as such long after the story broke.
I also don't like that they have be be cutesy and have at least one reporter with a thick foreign accent each and every newscast that has to pronounce at least 3 or 4 American-ized words differently, almost as to show-off that they are a forreign correspondent.
News twice per hour usually means you don't have enough spots to fill that time. The Hugh Hewitt Show is 38 minutes of content per hour, plus 5 minutes of network spots, leaving the local station to fill 17 minutes per hour. That's a pretty common ratio in the talk industry.
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I don't know if the Salem Radio network has the same shows as the tv version, but there is a Salem News Channel on WQDI 20.7 which is a low power station but receivable in many parts of Cleveland.
That's not breaking news, that's breaking wind. EVERYBODY farts after eating at BK.
That's probably because some of the "conservative" radio talk shows -- especially those with religious overtones -- tend to be way over the top. Listen to Ernie Sanders' "What's Right What's Left" and he is constantly telling his listeners that anyone who has an abortion, or is LGBTQ is going straight to hell.
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