Where I live news on the radio is already a thing of the past. Radio "news"
consists of reading the newspaper. Thank you Cumulus.

I'm aware there's at least one station in the US who uses a news feed
from our BBC.

Is there any interest in our slant on news?
--
Philip de Cadenet G4ZOW
Transmitters 'R' Us
http://www.transmittersrus.com

"Paul Jensen" wrote in message ...
"Shannon" wrote in message
...
With news updates on cell phones and watches, and immediate Internet
news coverage, will listening to news on the radio become something of
the past?

Where I live news on the radio is already a thing of the past. Radio "news"
consists of reading the newspaper. Thank you Cumulus.

Paul Jensen
Florida's Emerald Coast

In LA KNX and KFWB (both Infinity stations) are pre-empting news with
sports, that is complete games. And oh yes, the new 'Liberal' network
called Air America starts today, evidently with time leased on KBLA
1580==Ted Shireman

"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
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On 30 Mar 2004 05:18:58 GMT, (Shannon) wrote:

With news updates on cell phones and watches, and immediate Internet
news coverage, will listening to news on the radio become something of
the past?

Listening to anything on radio is becoming increasingly difficult.
It's a tossup between the talking head saying "News-Talk 730 - WSC" 25
times every 10 minutes, trying to jack up the ratings by saturating
the listeners with RCA marine communication's shortwave callsign (730
is WSCC) and the saturation advertising playing the same spots 8 times
an hour in a string of like spots played 8 times an hour for 6 minutes
STRAIGHT with no programming whatsoever.

Is it any wonder noone is listening?


It's certainly a wonder that the spot load on "News Talk 730" is as heavy as
you claim it to be if, as you say, no one is listening. Know what? I'll
bet that lots and lots of people are listening. I wonder why these
advertisers (and so many of them, too) are paying to have their spots not
listened to by anybody. Odd. What's really odd is that the station seems,
by your count, to be airing 48 minutes of spots an hour. Isn't that a tad
unusual? I really don't know the answer.

"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
...

There's 5 stations in one office, here, and only one of them actually
has a talking head live on the air. He's also an automaton because
the computer warns him he has 10 seconds before its his turn to talk
and starts warning him he has 5 seconds to stop before the next row of
12 spots we've all heard a hundred times in the last 8 hours plays
over again.

There are 10 AMs in the metro; WSCC is in a virtual 3-way tie for second. It
has about a 2.6 share, and bills proportionally to the ratings share.

However, were it not part of a successful cluster, the station would
probably not be viable as a stand-alone.

"Ted Shireman" wrote in message
...
"Paul Jensen" wrote in message
...
"Shannon" wrote in message
...
With news updates on cell phones and watches, and immediate Internet
news coverage, will listening to news on the radio become something of
the past?

Where I live news on the radio is already a thing of the past. Radio
"news"
consists of reading the newspaper. Thank you Cumulus.

Paul Jensen
Florida's Emerald Coast

In LA KNX and KFWB (both Infinity stations) are pre-empting news with
sports, that is complete games. And oh yes, the new 'Liberal' network
called Air America starts today, evidently with time leased on KBLA
1580==Ted Shireman

What games are on KNX?

Ted Shireman wrote:
"Paul Jensen" wrote in message ...

"Shannon" wrote in message
...

With news updates on cell phones and watches, and immediate Internet
news coverage, will listening to news on the radio become something of
the past?

Where I live news on the radio is already a thing of the past. Radio "news"
consists of reading the newspaper. Thank you Cumulus.

Paul Jensen
Florida's Emerald Coast


In LA KNX and KFWB (both Infinity stations) are pre-empting news with
sports, that is complete games.

KFWB has the sports. KNX has the cooking and computer shows that they
got by luring people from KFI....

And oh yes, the new 'Liberal' network
called Air America starts today, evidently with time leased on KBLA
1580==Ted Shireman

Didn't have a radio near me at work....how did that go?

On 31 Mar 2004 23:06:40 GMT, "Don Forsling" wrote:


It's certainly a wonder that the spot load on "News Talk 730" is as heavy as
you claim it to be if, as you say, no one is listening. Know what? I'll
bet that lots and lots of people are listening. I wonder why these
advertisers (and so many of them, too) are paying to have their spots not
listened to by anybody. Odd. What's really odd is that the station seems,
by your count, to be airing 48 minutes of spots an hour. Isn't that a tad
unusual? I really don't know the answer.

Well (blush), I may have exaggerated a bit, but you know EXACTLY what
I'm talking about.......I hope.



Larry W4CSC
POWER is our friend!

On 3 Apr 2004 15:32:09 GMT, "David Eduardo"
wrote:


"Larry W4CSC" wrote in message
...

There's 5 stations in one office, here, and only one of them actually
has a talking head live on the air. He's also an automaton because
the computer warns him he has 10 seconds before its his turn to talk
and starts warning him he has 5 seconds to stop before the next row of
12 spots we've all heard a hundred times in the last 8 hours plays
over again.

There are 10 AMs in the metro; WSCC is in a virtual 3-way tie for second. It
has about a 2.6 share, and bills proportionally to the ratings share.

However, were it not part of a successful cluster, the station would
probably not be viable as a stand-alone.


Number one is Citadel's WTMA on 1250?

Just a guess....(c;

TMA's sister station is WTMZ 910. It's a bit of a shock for the
visitors to Charleston to hear "good music" on AM, but that's what's
on there. It failed, miserably, as news-talk, sports, sports-talk,
and some other formats. Not sure it shows up in the rating book,
though. The locals all listen to it over 40 years old. Reminds them
of Harry Weaver's old WOKE on 1340 I used to work for part-time when I
was a Navy sailor. That station actually had a STUDIO, complete with
a Steinway grand! There was a big sign up over the board we all had
to stare at all day. "If in doubt, DON'T do it, DON'T say it and, for
God's sake, DON'T PLAY IT!" Harry, the station's owner and VERY
conservative, WAS listening to what you did. I think he had the first
speed dial phone in the world...(c; It never made the ratings book,
either, but I spent many happy hours sitting at our little home-made
console with two old transcription players and 2 cart machines in the
middle of Diana's Dress Shop window on King Street actually feeding
the station audio into a telephone loop from a permanently-installed
jack in the wall direct to the station. For a young kid, ratings or
not, this was RADIO in 1968.

Hand me that Harry James album, would you? Lemme cue it up on 2.
It's next on the air after John, our silver-tongue, dashingly dressed
radio personality those two ladys are blushing over across the room on
the other end of the mic cord interviews a customer on why she's
buying that particular dress from Diana's. Thanks.

Wireless mic on the end of a Marti in the van my ass.....That ain't
radio!



Larry W4CSC
POWER is our friend!