Our moderator brings up politics more than everyone else combined on this board. I ask if radio hosts have an obligation to neutrality when interviewing politicians, and cite an example from one of the largest broadcasting companies in the country and the topic is closed?

I look forward to our moderator posting the next anti-CBC National Post editorial any day now. But he hates to get political.

Isn't it depressing when we're surprised and impressed when two of the richest companies in the country combine to offer something slightly better than the cheapest, lowest quality content for its radio audience?

Well, I agree with you that they do sound very good, those top of the hour intros are easier to put together than it sounds. You produce the intro and extro, but then the hooks are often provided by a service or you can create them yourself, but then they are simply scheduled the same way you would schedule a song and the automation system puts it all together. There isn’t a person producing 24 of those for every day.

RadioActive wrote:

I turned on WGR and was stunned that they weren't talking about this. Instead, they were going on about some injury to a player. You'd think this was a no-brainer for a topic. 

WBEN-AM was going with it non-stop, which makes sense, taking calls from listeners and reliving his legendary football career - and what came after.

But for the local all sports station in Buffalo to be absent on this story seems incredible to me. Then again, it wasn't on the Fan 590, either, which is also surprising. They were talking about the Raptors instead. All this while the two main talk stations - CFRB and AM640 were going wall-to-wall with Simpson's death and his history.

So the talk stations were on it and the sports stations weren't. I find that odd. 

He retired 45 years ago. To everyone in the demo of sports radio stations he isn’t remembered as a football player.

It’s usually 8 or 9 plus weather or traffic. You usually get 39 or 40 minutes of show per hour, not counting the news.

Radiowiz wrote:

I'm not dragging any names into this, but I do know for an absolute fact that a while back, someone turned down mornings on Zee 103five because "They don't pay very good..."

So, long story short, this is a company that wants to brag about the importance of people, but not have to pay them what they might actually be worth. 
"One voice, one choice"
 

Just because one person didn’t like a salary offer doesn’t mean they don’t pay people what they’re worth. Maybe that person demanded something that all of us would think is unreasonable. Negotiations don’t work out sometimes. That happens in every industry every day.
I have no idea what they’re like to work for but I need a bigger sample size than one person.

RadioActive wrote:

It's no surprise that New York and Los Angeles are still kings of the radio castle down south, remaining the #s 1 & 2 markets in North America. Chicago, as always, is runner-up at #3.

Buffalo, which once occupied a much higher perch, is still in 59th place. For those in Windsor, Detroit ranks at a respectable #14.

But did you ever wonder which place below the border is the lowest of the low in terms of ratings market? It's Grand Forks, North Dakota, which ranks 572 out of 572. Imagine competing for that audience.

The list isn't for everyone and only involves the U.S., but I found it fascinating nonetheless. If you feel the same way, take a peek at it here. 

The Grand Forks market will be familiar to Winnipeg audiences. That’s where people go if they want to shop in the US and that’s where their US TV affiliates come from on cable.

Vassy is known for being tongue tied pretty often. I seem to remember her joking about it recently. She attributes it to not getting enough sleep.
She post some of her flubs on Instagram.

I don’t buy it. It’s simply damage control from a company that is slowly waking up to the fact that customer perception is important too, not just shareholder satisfaction.

Having everyone hate your company isn’t a great business strategy even in an oligopoly.

I’ve seen speculation that iHeart Radio is on Facebook’s news content black list while individual stations aren’t.
So people seem to think they can use their Facebook pages as long as they aren’t connected to iHeart websites.

That is correct. They get elected when they lie about it and then do it anyway. See George Bush Sr. and Brian Mulroney.

Remember the carbon tax was originally a conservative idea to avoid doing more tangible things. Because conservatives don’t really have ideals anymore other than opposing anything a liberal likes, it’s now the worst idea in human history.

This study says it works.

https://theconversation.com/carbon-pricing-works-the-largest-ever-study-puts-it-beyond-doubt-142034

The only way this makes sense in London is if the website is underperforming in ad revenue or page views or the sponsor is hoping a certain percentage of people will click through and buy a trip.

She was always particularly good on CBC’s Remembrance Day coverage when she would speak with veterans and get them to tell their stories.

The Junos need to stop giving away the major awards before the TV broadcast.
Rock Album of the Year, Artist of the Year, Single of the Year, Breakthrough Group of the Year and Songwriter of the Year were presented at an industry function on an earlier night.
At the Grammys those winners would have been Paramore, Miley Cyrus, SZA and Phoebe Bridgers, and Billie Eilish.
Those are big names that wouldn’t have been on TV.