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Radio bails out the auto industry?

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It's only part of the problem, though.

Banks are not lending money to anybody, so there's fewer potential buyers out there.

I won't get started on the banks sitting on all of that bailout money, though...

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I'm peppering our logs with the PSAs; hopefully they'll help a bit. I think it's the right thing to do for our local advertisers....they've been good to us, we've been good to them; now, we have a chance to be gooder. *hehehe couldn't resist, Arperoo*
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Rock wrote:I'm peppering our logs with the PSAs; hopefully they'll help a bit.
Help what?

By the way, please try to make sure that PSAs are PSAs. At this point, the vast majority are really brainwashing, propaganda, and political indoctrination; a few -- the Narconons being the most prevalent -- are recruiting tools for cults.
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As far as 'PSAs', I've always been very selective of what we put on the air. One of my favorites is the 'Cancer Project dot Org' spot. A nice ring to it, eh? Who couldn't support a group studying cancer? Well, it's a front for a vegan group, advocating a vegetarian lifestyle for children. So many of the Ad Council PSAs are issues advocacy, that I end up throwing out a bunch.
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Exactly....way to go!
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Rock wrote:As far as 'PSAs', I've always been very selective of what we put on the air. One of my favorites is the 'Cancer Project dot Org' spot. A nice ring to it, eh? Who couldn't support a group studying cancer? Well, it's a front for a vegan group, advocating a vegetarian lifestyle for children. So many of the Ad Council PSAs are issues advocacy, that I end up throwing out a bunch.
I've noticed my local TV stations will fill occasional unsold slots with event info for local arts groups (community theater or orchestra type things), other nonprofits, or with job fair information, instead of running generic PSA's. It's usually just a static slide with a voiceover that looks fairly easy to produce.

A lot of the Ad Council stuff is junk, for the reasons discussed above. Another one I don't understand is any LPFM or Class D that runs any PSA produced by the NAB or state broadcasters association. No sense doing "public service" for organizations that dislike your very existence.
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Oh, we run plenty of local stuff..but it's very seasonal. Like this weekend...8 ramp dinners on Saturday. Bloody hell. :roll:
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Rock wrote:Oh, we run plenty of local stuff..but it's very seasonal. Like this weekend...8 ramp dinners on Saturday. Bloody hell. :roll:
Wow. 8O

There must be a lot of Catholics in my area, because there are fish frys left and right going on at the moment.
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Rock wrote:Oh, we run plenty of local stuff..but it's very seasonal. Like this weekend...8 ramp dinners on Saturday. Bloody hell. :roll:
Oh, man. I miss the ramps.
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I'm going to need someone to ship me some ramps and a few jars of Oliverio peppers...Gotta have fried taters and ramps...dang I miss WV.
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Clay JD Walker wrote:I'm going to need someone to ship me some ramps and a few jars of Oliverio peppers...Gotta have fried taters and ramps...dang I miss WV.
I saw the first ramp vendors of the season out on Rt.119 this weekend :lol:
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Clay JD Walker wrote:some ramps
Feel free to take as many as you want out of my front yard.
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Man, Greenbrier county is ramp-happy!! One of my first, and favorite, on-site jobs was on the Classic Rocker outta Beckley...drove in a '67 VW microbus to White Sulphur to do a ramp festival at the old folks home. Had a blast, tho..first time I ever tried ramps. I avoided them like the plague..but, they're not too bad raw. If you have a stalker, eat some ramps...better than garlic on a vampire. :D
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