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WHK's "Strictly Speaking" show.

You're not getting it.

The "product" Sekulow is selling is their advocacy. They want money (yours perhaps, but never mine) so they can keep doing what they do. It's no different from any other infomercial.

You speak in same alternate manner used by Bill Clinton when he wanted us to believe that what he did with "that woman" (the intern) wasn't "sexual relations".
 
johnbasalla said:
Thanks for sharing, once again. The show doesn't seem like an infomercial to me not because I agree with their views but because, even though they solicit for donations and are a brokered product, they talk about issues, just like most other talk shows and, occasionally, have guests on, just like other talk shows. My view of true "informercials" are, as I've said, for those shows pushing and selling a product. I heard a bit of one, for a hot-minute, that was talking about fish oil in, for, or on something. I didn't stay around long enough to really get into what they were selling.
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I worked for a religious station and we were paid some sum to run the show, i forget if it was straight paid time or a share.. like X percentage of donations form our area.

Its a conservative infomercial guised as a conservative talk show. Plus.. what talk show that isnt brokered is only half an hour? You can't get junk accomplished in 30 minutes on a talk show. that's no time to get a conversaiton flowing
 
There is a fine distinction between a brokered program and an infomercial.
A brokered program is content produced or supplied from outside the station or uses people who are not employed by the station for which specified blocks of airtime are sold by the station for the purpose of airing it. This is as old as American broadcasting itself and is different from a sustaining program aired by a station with the hope of attracting adverisers willing to pay to have their ads air during that program.
The infomercial, or more accurately the program length commercial, came about rather recently when FCC commrcial rules were relaxed to permit it.
So in essence all infomercials are brokered programs but not all brokered programs are necessarily infomercials .
 
As most of you know, Salem is not in the business to make money with their radio stations. The stations are viewed as a method of spreading the gospel on the religious stations like WHKW and to promote conservative doctrine on the talk stations like WHK. As far as that local lobster restaurant is concerned, I will bet that is a trade out.
 
radiofollower said:
As most of you know, Salem is not in the business to make money with their radio stations. The stations are viewed as a method of spreading the gospel on the religious stations like WHKW and to promote conservative doctrine on the talk stations like WHK. As far as that local lobster restaurant is concerned, I will bet that is a trade out.
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They may not be in the business of making money but companies that supply them electricity, streaming services, infrastructure [towers, router, computers, etc.] are and they're not gonna take "Why don't you do a beg-a-thon like we do to get money that way?" from them.
 
Yabadabado1 said:
They may not be in the business of making money but companies that supply them electricity, streaming services, infrastructure [towers, router, computers, etc.] are and they're not gonna take "Why don't you do a beg-a-thon like we do to get money that way?" from them.
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Nothing to do with the subject. Salem pays their bills. They have a network of "Christian" supporters who contribute some pretty big bucks to Salem so they are hardly unable to pay their bills.
 
radiofollower said:
Nothing to do with the subject. Salem pays their bills. They have a network of "Christian" supporters who contribute some pretty big bucks to Salem so they are hardly unable to pay their bills.
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Hmm, I dunno about that.

Salem made a round of layoffs last week, at the end of the third quarter (Sept. 30). More details are supposed to come next week, but here's what I know so far:
  • Eric Metaxas' show has been canceled, and he and his team have been cut;
  • At the Salem News Channel, Andrew Wilkow is gone;
  • And in my market, we lost a full-time board op and we're now operating automated and manless in overnights.
That cash infusion from WaterStone only went so far. We're expecting more layoffs in the very near future.
 


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