I had to drive from North Jersey to DC last evening, so I pulled up the Levin App on my phone to listen to Dan Bongino. When the stations are on break for news etc., there are usually commercials and public service announcements. During the 6 - 7 hour, they ran the energy efficient lamp PSA 3 times in a row at 6:30 or so, 3 times again at around 6:45 and 5, yes - 5 times in a row during the break for the 7 pm news. Just the same PSA over and over again. Nothing else.
I gave up and listened to the rest of the show on WMAL instead. It may not sound like much, but hearing the same one minute PSA over and over again indicates a failure on multiple levels.
That would indicate a lack of advertisers.
I think all of talk radio is hurting.
I listen to several different stations online. They all play the same PSA’s over and over. Jimmy and the lightbulbs is the newest irritant. But some are playing PSA’s and Info-Ad-Council ads that are several years old.
Tech-Trends and similar are the same ones that were being broadcast several years ago. They are as dated as watching a commercials for IBM desktop PCs with PC-DOS.
Some stations run the same ‘Jimmy and the lighbulbs’ commercial 3 times during the same break.