Posted on 07/14/2015 3:25:24 AM PDT by markomalley
I'm sure I'm not alone in being really sick of the saturation advertising by the left-wing group "Knights of St Francis" that is being broadcast on WMAL.
Here are a couple of suggestions:
Find another source for conservative talk. A couple of samples that have basically the same network shows as WMAL (though different local shows):
Take a moment and write the Advertising Manager for Cumulus DC: jake.mccann@cumulus.com.
I suggest that you use something like the following format (I am not giving you text to copy/paste in an email as form emails are never as effective as personal ones):
If you actually decide to send the email and get a response, it might be useful to paste the response in this thread...
PING!
They are super annoying.
Ping!
I think it just replaced the annoying “KARS for Kids” commercials.
It’s easy enough to ignore. Some of the opinion hosts on WMAL are talking about sun research that predicts a cooling period. They are getting good money for running the spots. Bless ‘em.
Are they paid ads, or PSAs?
One spot is easy enough to ignore. Listening to the same irritating spot once an hour every hour gets on my nerves.
I listen to Chris Plante a few times during the week on podcast and skip past commercials.
WMAL has conservative talk, but their in house news department is a liberal as it gets. By the way, I love the Bach Cello suites.
Btw, The music is Cello Suite No. 1 In G Major, BWV 1007: Prélude by Bach.
I'm not going to download files, then open them. sorry.
It's likely I run across enough 'electronic germs', without [figuratively] sharing needles/taking electo-transfusion of programs & scripts, etc...
If I had just the right NSA email addresses, I could probably ask them (and they would know, *they* know everything -- but next to nothing, at the same time) but I'm not in the right info loops.
I do remember the WBAP station identifier "jingle", little ditty-like, short soundtrack from the sixties though, and can reproduce reasonable facsimile of it, in my mind's ear (so to speak).
I wonder...do they still use them, or at least bring them out every once and a while, like, to introduce particular segments?
The links were for live radio streams from the stations in question that you would play in a media player, like Windows Media Player, Clementine, or VLC. They weren't files to open up.
What is the subject matter of the radio ads?
The subject matter was an interpretation of Bergoglio's environmental encyclical. Certain quotes.
The same commercials are on WTOP (103.5 FM) in the Washington DC metro media market. My impression from their programming is that the WTOP primary market is southern Maryland and DC. I listen to it primarily for the traffic and weather reports which are given frequently each hour.
The voice talent sounds like Morgan Freeman, who is an atheist if I recall correctly.
The ad is EXTREMELY irritating.
ESPECIALLY - when you listen to what the maroon actually SAYS! (e.g. Nature is not going to put up with it... or some crap like that.)
The cello music is good, however.
Just play the cello music and tell the Pope SHUT...UP!
It's funny to hear the contrast of the 8 minutes of "news" (IMQMWMH)* segments and the rest of the hour.
* hat tip to Chris.
...”They love their colons!”
The Morgan Freeman voice over is super annoying.
The basic premise is the Pope says if you don’t get on the GloBULL warming band wagon you are a sinner. How nice. Morgan Freeman announcing the whole sham.
The one that makes me grind my teeth is the anti-bullying ad that begins “Today in school I learned a lot”.
I just turn the radio off now, when I hear it start.
-JT
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