AAR and commercials.... anybody else bugged out?

[liberalitch]

"cause I am.....

[NYCGirl]

1. I don't understand. What's the problem? NT

[kamqute]

15. Commercials are not integral to the Sirius business model

I am trying to get support for an organization to lobby Sirius to carry progressive spots during commercial periods instead--this is a chance to change the media while it's still small enough to be (slightly) responsive!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=109x18904

[concord]

2. I can't listen any more because of them

There are WAY too many - it's aggravating and not worth it.

And I was soooo happy when AAR came to Boston. Waste of time.

[xultar]

3. WTF!!!!!!!!!!! How are they going to make money with out ADS.

Either you want AAR or you don't.

[rman]

6. they could run less anoying adds

or turn it into a (partly) public-funded network.

[devilgrrl]

4. How is this for a novel idea? Start your own friggin' station...

if you think you can do a better job.

[liberalitch]

11. I am a teacher,...

so you know I have no time OR money to start my own station..... I'm just annoyed by the amount of commercials.... makes me wonder how truthful they can be when they have these guys paying the bills

[devilgrrl]

12. I was addressing Concord

sorry for the confusion

[concord]

13. I never said I thought I could do a better job

I said I was happy to hear that AAR was coming to my area and then not happy that all I was hearing were ads.

Why so angry?

[NYCGirl]

5. They have to pay the bills somehow. Lots of commercials are a good thing

for the bottom line. That's just reality.

[concord]

14. There needs to be a balance

If the commercials are keeping the listening audience down, then how is that helping anyone? I listen to other talk stations, and they intersperse their shows with smaller commercial breaks - maybe more often, but it's easier to stay on topic that way.

Wow, the venom here is fascinating. You guys work there or something?

[izzybeans]

7. My only problem with the adds, at least my local station's

is they seem to accept anything and everything. The worst is an advert. for Brett Schundler (R-NJ) an extremely rightwing nut who normally gets laughed out of the polling place. The tag line of the add is something like "come join the leader of the revolutionary movement on taxes" He's basically an (sub)urban anti-tax hick. Why is he playing campaign adds for governer on Air America? For the first week of hearing it I thought it was a joke, a satire, etc. Either way its funny because it confirms John Stewert's suspicions from last night that the republican agenda is not to spread freedom around the globe, it is to spread irony. They've colonized a handful of 30 second spots on AA. Ironic huh?

[confludemocrat]

8. On AAR on Sirius satellite they have non-ads:

Repeated public service announcements in long rotations to fill the breaks. The same 3-4 announcement for months at a time with minor variation. That's worse, would welcome something real rather than hearing e.g., a one minute interview with the former head of the EPA, which ran all summer, the same joke, laughter, questions, and about how "his Republican Part left him."

Then there was the one about the cristy-sounding old guy asking a financial advisor if he should marry this woman, seems he was suspicious she wanted his money. The advisor asks how much you got--he has $25,000 saved up!


Or the snippet of the same question to the car guys, Tom and Ray, about rigging windshield wipers

[BiggJawn]

9. The more spots, the healthier the network

That's PAID spots, not PSA's. I hate it when it's 5 minutes of "paid for by the Ad Council" freebie filler.

OK, so those are SLIGHTLY better than those AM Radio hair loss and boner pill ads, but not by much....

Boner pills pay the Bills

[jdots]

10. interesting to see who is advertising

It is A.M. radio 300-8000 hz. of compressed crappy tone.This is why it is effective.It's mission statement is to get in that A.M. dial that Joe & Betty America listen too ( they are not big music lovers)
I agree those commercials are annoying.......the traffic reports are great in the L.A. market...You have to remember N.P.R. sold out and Pacifica isn't geared toward Betty & Joe A.M. talk radio.
Repukes think that dems are snooty nerds,Air America is helping us DUers and dems by doing this A.M. station.It is kind of for us but not for us to listen to,and it seems to be working damn well.

[chitty]

16. Doesn't bug me at all.

as a matter of fact my company advertises on the local Phoenix AAR station.

I have gotten the best response on my AAR spots than any other ads I have ever run before, including print.

[BuyingThyme]

17. Even on the best stations in the country, AAR or not,

it's snake oil sales, 24 hours a day.

You get used to it.