Not a term I use, just tossed it in there to put myself in the shoes of the OP who said Siegel's listeners were "different." I find Carr entertaining and informed, although I think he oversimplifies greatly when he paints politicians with the broad "hack" brush. I even laughed at his characterization of poor George Keverian as "D-Papa Gino's" in the Herald years back, when it was still somewhat OK to do so.
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Not a term I use, just tossed it in there to put myself in the shoes of the OP who said Siegel's listeners were "different." I find Carr entertaining and informed, although I think he oversimplifies greatly when he paints politicians with the broad "hack" brush. I even laughed at his characterization of poor George Keverian as "D-Papa Gino's" in the Herald years back, when it was still somewhat OK to do so.
I think I laughed....and cringed at the same time.
SiriusXM does have audio of cable news channels.
Tired Of It All
Banned
For those of you who have actually worked at a radio station.....what does one have to do to get a station to correct an error...the error is....every...single...Sunday a station airs two programs simultaneously....it's been going on for maybe 2 months or more...I have emailed the station and I have emailed IHeart to no avail. I don't understand why this still continues, what does it take to get someone to fix this?
Send a letter, certified mail, make sure it says "for insertion into the public inspection file" mention failure to program in the public interest, CC the FCC.
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Or,....buy a iPod for podcasts and join the rest of the human race.
Radio's toast
Radio's toast
Do they still make iPods? You don't need an iPod to listen to podcasts.
Don’t bother doing this. Letters and emails from the public are no longer required to be placed into the public file...and the FCC takes no action on programming complaints.
The first step is recognizing the problem. If the station continues to do this, they don't know that there is a problem. You may have written to the wrong person.
The first step in technical issues is usually the chief engineer, then the PD, then the GM. Corporate HQ will not be particularly concerned about a local issue, particularly if it has no revenue impact.
They do if the complaints involve profanity, obscenity and prohibited practices like lack of sponsor ID, double billing, lowest unit rate, etc.
But you are correct in that 99% of program content is at the discretion of the licensee, except for a few specific situations
Since this is occurring on a Sunday are either of the two programs sponsored? ...like an infomercial from Southern California? It might help to alert them as well. They might not know what is airing in Boston, and simply pay the bill when it arrives.
>>the FCC takes no action on programming complaints
Some progressive talk fans urged each other to write the FCC when their stations switched to something else...Yeah...
Some progressive talk fans urged each other to write the FCC when their stations switched to something else...Yeah...
Tired Of It All
Banned
One is an infomercial..."on line trading academy", which airs at 7am and then again for some reason at 10:30am airing on top of the following program..."at home with Gary Sullivan" which is a regular program.....the station is Talk1200....an IHeart station...Talk1200 doesn't respond to emails and neither does IHeart.
So why is this in a WRKO thread? And why not contact the sponsor of the program?
No operator of stations care. Whether it's a large corporation like iHeart that owns over 800 stations or a small company such as Full Power Radio which owns around 2 dozen stations/translators they don't respond to emails. Last year I sent an email to the VP of the latter company about a technical issue with one of their stations. He said he would have someone look into it. A few months later after the issues wasn't revolved I emailed him again. Again he responded he would have someone look into it. Still not fixed I emailed him again in May of this year. Got a response that he was no longer with the company and to email the president of the company. I emailed the president of the comany and he never responded.
As Scott Adams has shown us so many times in "Dilbert" strips, no one is looked upon with greater contempt by corporate America than the end user. And since the end user is providing no income to the radio station, that only makes him lower than the lowest paying end user. I remember reading years back that programming types at Sirius (pre-merger) had a snide acronym to describe subscribers who would write in with suggestions on improving their channels -- SPERM, they allegedly called them: Self Proclaimed Experts on Radio and Music. And the suggestions? Dismissed with nary an acknowledging email.
To me, this is a very condescending attitude on the part of corporate radio ownership and smacks of a total disdain for the listeners they need to convince the sponsors that they need to buy ads on their stations to reach these listeners.
Station management should be grateful that there are those of us who take the time to write and bring to their attention some defect in their product. We are doing so not to rub their noses in it, but because we actually like their station and/or its programming and want it to be presented in the best way possible. The stations where these snafus are a regular occurrence usually have little to no human intervention, yet we, the disdained, perform a "quality control" function of sorts for them, and we do it for free!
Several times last week the 10:00 AM newscast on WRKO, the one between the end of the (live) WRKO Morning Show and The (live) Financial Exchange, was a replay of a newscast from the previous afternoon! This shyte was not uncommon when Entercom, who only cared about the WEEI brand, was the owner, so I thought it ended for good when WRKO moved into the same building with iHeart Central. Shows how little I know.
Of course you're assuming what they're saying is true. Keep in mind that radio is not "I alone can fix it." There are thousands of owners, thousands of employees, and lots of different systems we're talking about.
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