Is Randi having trouble selling commercial air time?

[seriousstan]

I am in Columbus Ohio and every time they go to commercial break they come back to over 4 minutes ( I timed it) of insipid, repetitive, time-filling canned music. Is this happening anywhere else? I refuse to listen if I have to be subjected to this canned loop music every damn commercial break. Is it because they don't have the commercials or what?

[PretzelWarrior]

1. sounds like your station. I think AAR is selling national ads

and so you get some of those commercials but no local ones.

Sounds strange to me. She's doing GREAT in many areas. What are call letters of your AAR affiliate?

[seriousstan]

3. 1230 WTPG

[PretzelWarrior]

11. well, they are garnering around a 1 share. vs. 8.2 for righty radio

gosh. that 610 station is YUCK. I'm sure they had great ratings for Buckeye football. Plus they have an unGodly and gross lineup of:

Rush
Hannity
Drudge
Glen Beck

ouch. you must be living in Repub country.

may take some time for your area

[msongs]

2. aar is mostly on crummy little stations nobody listen to anyway

here in so cal the nations largest media market. in our area aar is on a station that goes off the air at sunset as far as we can tell and has a broadcasting radius that is barely down the street. during the day they play bits and pieces of aar programming whenever they feel like it. we tried to listen some times but it was hardly worth the bother.

not sure it is any better in LA.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/clark2008.htm

[PretzelWarrior]

5. where are you in SoCal?

i'm curious where it's at

[Mr_Spock]

10. It's called a daytime only license :(

Because of "skip" on AM at night there are a lot of daytime stations that aren't allowed to broadcast at night. I already asked my local station abou this - they are trying to get more power autorization & nights but it's difficult to get. It's awful in the winter time when the sun sets at 5PM :( I actually listen to a station WLIB from New York (200 miles from here) at night due to the "skip" on AM radio. It'll be crazy if/when they get onto a major station.

[stevedeshazer]

4. No problem here, wall-to-wall commercials

Check with WPTG 1230

http://progressive1230.com/main.html

[MazeRat7]

6. They took Randi off here, so I bought XM. Better for AAR than ads.

Seriously, they preempted Randi for some guy from Colorado. Hell the only reason I listened to that silly AM station was for AAR. So when Randi went, I bought XM. I win, AAR wins, and (oh so sad) my local affiliate looses. Hey.. thats the breaks.

MZr7

[El Supremo]

7. Naw, the NY advertizers...

don't want to pay for the national internet ads.

[Spazito]

8. Mike Malloy explained the music, I think it was last night,

It is the way AAR is doing their commercials, they aren't aired on the internet or on satellite, only on regular radio stations (I think that was the way he explained it). He said not to worry they are able to sell commercial air time, it isn't a problem.

[seriousstan]

9. I am listening to the regular radio station.

Im I not understanding you? As for it being a problem, I will stop listening soon. Currently I know they are about 4:30 minutes long and I turn the volume down. I won't be doing that for much longer, I will simply not listen.

[PretzelWarrior]

12. you should find out if your station is just using the straight feed

for internet broadcasts. that sucks man. go buy satellite radio or something.

[peaches2003]

16. XM

XM is well worth the money for AAR alone, but it offers so much more, too. I have it on all day in the house and was given one for the car for Christmas.

[Steve A Play]

13. I don't know about your local station but

by my count they're up to 82 stations plus XM satellite. Ads or not, they must be making money somehow. :shrug:

Latest station list from their web site.

National

XM Satellite Radio ch. 167

Eastern

Akron, OH - WARF-AM 1350 AM
Ann Arbor, MI - WLBY-AM 1290 AM
Asheville, NC - WPEK-AM 880 AM
Atlanta, GA - WWAA-AM 1690 AM
Bennington, VT - WBTN-AM 1370
Binghamton, NY - WYOS-AM 1360 AM
Boston, MA - WKOX-AM 1200 AM
Boston, MA - WXKS-AM 1430 AM
Brattleboro, VT - WKVT-AM 1490 AM
Burlington, VT - WVAA-AM 1390 AM
Chapel Hill, NC - WCHL-AM 1360 AM
Chattanooga, TN - WDOD-AM 1310 AM
Cincinnati, OH - WCKY-AM 1530 AM
Cleveland, OH - WTAM-AM 1100 AM
Columbia, SC - WOIC-AM 1230 AM
Columbus, OH - WTPG-AM 1230 AM
Detroit, MI - WDTW-AM 1310 AM
Grand Rapids, MI - WTKG-AM 1230
Huntington, WV - WRVC-AM 930 AM
Ithaca, NY - WNYY-AM 1470-AM
Key West, FL - WKIZ-AM 1500 AM
Miami, FL - WINZ-AM 940 AM
Montpelier/Barre/St Johnsbury, VT - WDEV-AM 550
New Haven, CT - WAVZ-AM 1300 AM
New York, NY - WLIB 1190 AM
Petoskey, MI - WWKK-AM 750 AM
Pittsburgh, PA - WPTT-AM 1360
Portland, ME - WLVP-AM 870 AM
Providence-Warwick-Pawtucket, RI - WHJJ-AM 920
Rochester, NY - WROC-AM 950 AM
Rocky Mount, NC - WEED-AM 1390
Sarasota-Bradenton, FL - WSRQ-AM 1450 AM
Springfield, MA - WHMP-AM 1400 AM
Washington, DC - WWRC-AM 1260 AM
West Palm Beach, FL - WJNO-AM 1290 AM

Central

Austin, TX - KOKE-AM 1600 AM
Baton Rouge, LA - WYNK-AM 1380 AM
Brainerd, MN - WWWI-AM 1270 AM
Chicago, IL - WCPT-AM 850 AM
Corpus Christi, TX - KCCT-AM 1150 AM
Dallas-Ft. Worth, TX - KXEB-AM 910 AM
Davenport, IA - WKBF-AM 1270 AM
Duluth-Superior, MN - KQDS-AM 1490 AM
Ely/Hibbing, MN - WELY-AM 1450 AM
Lafayette, LA - KEUN-AM 1490 AM
Madison, WI - WXXM-FM 92.1 FM
Marion/Carbondale, IL - WINI-AM 1420
Memphis, TN - WWTQ-AM 680 AM
Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN - KTNF-AM 950 AM
New Orleans, LA - WSMB-AM 1350 AM
San Antonio, TX - KTXX-FM 103.1 FM

Mountain

Albuquerque, NM - KABQ-AM 1350 AM
Denver, CO - KKZN-AM 760 AM
Missoula, MT - KKNS-FM 105.9 FM
Phoenix, AZ - KXXT-AM 1010 AM
Santa Fe, NM - KTRC-AM 1260 AM
Taos, NM - KVOT-AM 1340

Pacific

Albany, OR - KTHH-AM 990 AM
Eugene, OR - KOPT-AM 1600 AM
Eureka, CA - KGOE-AM 1480
Fresno, CA - KFPT-AM 790 AM
Los Angeles, CA - KTLK-AM 1150 AM
Monterey-Salinas-Santa Cruz, CA - KRXA-AM 540
North Bend / Coos Bay, OR - KBBR-AM 1340
Portland, OR - KPOJ-AM 620 AM
Reno, NV - KJFK-AM 1230 AM
Riverside, CA - KCAA-AM 1050 AM
Sacramento, CA - KSAC-AM 1240
Sacramento, CA - KCTC-AM 1320
San Diego, CA - KLSD-AM 1360 AM
San Francisco, CA - KSRO-AM 1350
San Francisco, CA - KQKE-AM 960 AM
San Luis Obispo, CA - KYNS-AM 1340 AM
Santa Barbara, CA - KIST-AM 1340 AM
Santa Cruz - Monterey, CA - KOMY-AM 1340 AM
Seattle, WA - KPTK-AM 1090 AM
Spokane, WA - KPTQ-AM 1280 AM
Victor Valley, CA - KSZL-AM 1230 AM

Alaska/Hawaii

Anchorage, AK - KUDO-AM 1080 AM
Honolulu, HI - KUMU-AM 1500 AM
Kihei, HI - KAOI-AM 1110 AM
Lihue, HI - KQNG-AM 570 AM

Steven P. :kick:

[bpilgrim]

14. better than the crappy ads they use to have

though they should be able to sell that airtime... i think they need a better web sales/marketing dept.

peace

[seriousstan]

15. You haven't heard this droning, 2nd rate studio musician loop

It is worse than an earworm.

[longship]

17. Streaming is now without commercials.

They just have the bumper music. If you listen to a local broadcast there would be ads over the bumper music.

[insane_cratic_gal]

18. If you get Xm what sort of contracts

do they offer? I'd prefer not to be locked into one in case AAR's powers that be decide to go to the next best thing.

I'd hate to be stuck with a 3 year contract or something

[Cleita]

19. It's been on most of the AAR shows, not just Randi.

I would like to know what's happening too, because it is really annoying. BTW I just tune into my local AM station, which has a really weak signal.