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I just got an email from someone that says tomorrow morning some AM station in this country will be flipping to Women oriented talk format. I promised the perso n who sent it I wouldn't reveal what station this is or where it is located. The email says some of the programming will include: Dr. Laura, Tammy Bruce, Debbie Nigro, Frankey Boyer, and Cullum and Silk.

I've only heard of the first 3. Who are the others?
 
> I just got an email from someone that says tomorrow morning
> some AM station in this country will be flipping to Women
> oriented talk format. I promised the perso n who sent it I
> wouldn't reveal what station this is or where it is located.
> The email says some of the programming will include: Dr.
> Laura, Tammy Bruce, Debbie Nigro, Frankey Boyer, and Cullum
> and Silk.
>
> I've only heard of the first 3. Who are the others?

So you haven't heard about Google?

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> > I just got an email from someone that says tomorrow
> morning
> > some AM station in this country will be flipping to Women
> > oriented talk format. I promised the perso n who sent it
> I
> > wouldn't reveal what station this is or where it is
> located.
> > The email says some of the programming will include: Dr.
> > Laura, Tammy Bruce, Debbie Nigro, Frankey Boyer, and
> Cullum
> > and Silk.
> >
> > I've only heard of the first 3. Who are the others?
>
> So you haven't heard about Google?
>
> NRN Programs -- Frankie BoyerThe Frankie Boyer Show.
> Weekdays 2:00 – 4:00 PM ET. With her enthusiastic and
> explosive personality, Frankie Boyer targets her health hhow
> to those ...
> www.nationalradionetwork.com/biofrankie.html - 4k - Cached -
> Similar pages
>
> Radio America Cullum and Silk cover the hot topical, pop
> culture and lifestyle stories of the ... The Cullum and Silk
> Show is content and personality-driven with caller ...
> www.radioamerica.org/Program2003/CullumSilk.htm - 16k -
> Cached - Similar pages
>
>
>
>
> >
> are you sure you're not talking about the big 8, cklw?
 
> > I just got an email from someone that says tomorrow
> morning
> > some AM station in this country will be flipping to Women
> > oriented talk format. I promised the perso n who sent it
> I
> > wouldn't reveal what station this is or where it is
> located.
> > The email says some of the programming will include: Dr.
> > Laura, Tammy Bruce, Debbie Nigro, Frankey Boyer, and
> Cullum
> > and Silk.

Bruce, Cullum, and Silk won't work. Women don't want to listen to these shows; the demos show this. The women 55+ who listen to news/talk are already familiar with the wide array of such stations on AM. And any younger women that listen to younger skewing talk are also already served. Putting political talk on a separate channel for women is stupid.

XM is debuting it's new "Take Five" channel on ch. 155 tomorrow with shows like the Satellite Sisters. Bonneville's attempt at this in SLC will fail; women also don't listen to AM in general. Put in on FM with a local morning and/or afternoon show, Dr. Laura, Joy Browne at night, and decent shows that appeal to the audience like Dream Doctors or Satellite Sisters. This will not work as a niche newstalk station... it must be void of news.
 
Blanquita Cullum is the embodiment of mediocre, fifth-rate political talk radio in either gender!

Someone told me that women of childbearing age don't listen to AM radio because their superior high-frequency hearing (presumably evolved to help them hear the baby cry at 2 a.m.) makes the limited frequency and heterodyne noises of amplitude modulation all the more annoying.

True?
 
> (presumably evolved to help them hear the baby cry at 2
> a.m.) makes the limited frequency and heterodyne noises of
> amplitude modulation all the more annoying.
>
> True?
>

Ha! You obviously aren't married with children...what a stereo type.




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> Blanquita Cullum is the embodiment of mediocre, fifth-rate
> political talk radio in either gender!
>
> Someone told me that women of childbearing age don't listen
> to AM radio because their superior high-frequency hearing
> (presumably evolved to help them hear the baby cry at 2
> a.m.) makes the limited frequency and heterodyne noises of
> amplitude modulation all the more annoying.

They don't listen because they aren't interested. Same reason fewer women of childbearing age read the newspaper.
 
CAB, there is significant research suggesting important neurological and sensory differences between human males and females. Do you always dismiss what you haven't heard before and/or what doesn't fit into your preconceptions?

>
> Ha! You obviously aren't married with children...what a
> stereo type.
>
 
I KNOW DIFFERENT...This "research" doesn't apply to EVERY woman. I am maried with THREE children, and I HAVE BEEN the one who heard the babies cry ... not my wife.


DO YOU ALWAYS PRESUME TO KNOW BETTER BECAUSE OF INNACURATE RESEARCH?

Get off your high horse. The "reseacrh" indicates a stereotyping of women.

ALL HUMANS ARE DIFFERENT. And it depends on what you want the "research" to explain/say.



> CAB, there is significant research suggesting important
> neurological and sensory differences between human males and
> females. Do you always dismiss what you haven't heard
> before and/or what doesn't fit into your preconceptions?
>
> >
> > Ha! You obviously aren't married with children...what a
> > stereo type.
> >
>
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Maybe she just wanted you to be the one to get up in the middle of the night.

Research identifies statistically significant differences in attitudes and behavior between groups. Rsearch deals with aggragates, not individuals.

Personal experience and anecdotes are not reliable indicators of anything. Sort of like all those people who come on these boards and say something like "I like ____ music and all my friends like ___ music and we should have a ____ station. Everybody would listen."

And you can't criticize any research as "inaccurate" unless you have read the study and understand the methods used. Otherwise, all you are saying is I don't like those conclusions. This is known as Lysenkoism.

It's unfortunate that the scientific community has done such a poor job helping people understand the scientific methods, statistics and inductive logic. They have only themselves to blame when people start saying "evolution is a theory, not a fact." Well, duh. Only data are facts.

> I KNOW DIFFERENT...This "research" doesn't apply to EVERY
> woman. I am maried with THREE children, and I HAVE BEEN the
> one who heard the babies cry ... not my wife.
>
>
> DO YOU ALWAYS PRESUME TO KNOW BETTER BECAUSE OF INNACURATE
> RESEARCH?
>
> Get off your high horse. The "reseacrh" indicates a
> stereotyping of women.
>
> ALL HUMANS ARE DIFFERENT. And it depends on what you want
> the "research" to explain/say.
>
>
>
 
> > (presumably evolved to help them hear the baby cry at 2
> > a.m.) makes the limited frequency and heterodyne noises of
>
> > amplitude modulation all the more annoying.
> >
> > True?
> >
>
> Ha! You obviously aren't married with children...what a
> stereo type.
>

its true, the frequency range of a woman's hearing is typically higher than that of a man's ... that being said, it is HIGHLY DOUBTFUL that "the limited frequency and heterodyne noises of amplitude modulation" is to blame for women's lack of interest in talk radio. Women are less interested in debate and argument, political or otherwise. Women aren't as attracted to conflict as entertainment. look at the difference in style and subject matter of the so called "chick flicks" versus male targeted action movies.
 
I oversimplified...I forgot that occassionally there are signs of intelligent life on these boards...

But...this is now way off topic. I'll just say that, while I could accept the research about "hearing" between men and women (maybe I'll look it up someday when I'm not babysitting a bunch of grown up five year olds), my point really was about women hearing a baby crying over a man in the early morning hours. There are many many variables that come into play...some people, as children are subjected to loud noises and thus learn to sleep through anything, others are subjected to extreme quiet and thus can't sleep through anything. This is non-scientific information based on my own real life experience, mind you... so since it isn't in your scientific realm you will no doubt discount my every word. But I know it to be true.

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Here's what maybe I should have said:

Stereotype: Women live longer than men.

And some guys outlive their wives.

Now will talk radio targeting women work? Maybe not the confrontation style of most political talk radio. Will putting women on the air attract women listeners? Not necessarily. There is some evidence that the communications styles of women are often different around only women; maybe if there is some way to capture that for radio.

Bigger problem: Many radio formats do better at attracting women listeners than men. Supply and demand: Advertisers are often willing to pay a premium for male listeners (especially in the money demo age segments). Another format targeting women may not big that big a deal to the agency buyers.
 
We agree.

The format on the station refered to is not politically centered. There is one politically centered show (Tammy Bruce) and Cullum and Silk seems to be more general in presentation. On Monday's Cullum and Silk, Cullum was talking with Andy Williams (The Standards crooner). It was interesting.

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