{"id":1766,"date":"2019-11-10T20:43:00","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T01:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/control-h.org\/wordpress\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2019-11-10T20:43:00","modified_gmt":"2019-11-11T01:43:00","slug":"ten-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/control-h.org\/index.php\/2019\/11\/10\/ten-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Describe how you would manage your own radio or TV station.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n

I started in on a list of things, but, you know, I do understand that I really don’t know where I’d even start these days. On the rare occasions I’ve been in a car lately listening, I’ve heard the music stations going to something like twelve-minute stop sets. How the hell do you keep people around at all with that?<\/p>\n\n\n

I seem to remember the goal of a commercial broadcaster being enticing the listener to stay around long enough to hear some commercials.<\/p>\n\n\n

Whenever I’m listening to a podcast of a radio show, there’s normally a live read in the first segment, a break at the bottom half, then maybe two spots in the second half of the show.<\/p>\n\n\n

I still do make it a point not to go out of my way to avoid commercials.<\/p>\n\n\n

I can remember the big thing with MythTV was that you could actually automatically skip commercials. I never did that; selling spots is how broadcasters (and podcasters) earn their money. Recently I’ve bought things ranging from a security system, to socks, to fruitcake.<\/p>\n\n\n

I guess, though, one of the big things that’s changed is the nature of audiences, who are more likely today not to worry so much about things being in real-time. I know people who watch most sporting events<\/em> hours, if not days, delayed. <\/p>\n\n\n

Would watching the Failcons fail to fail at the Superdome be any more disappointing if it was delayed? Or, since it wasn’t on here, than watching it live?<\/p>\n\n\n

But the Redskins didn’t lose today, so there’s that, I suppose.<\/p>\n\n\n

I’m really not feeling this today, for a variety of reasons. That we’ve not finished unpacking is probably a major consideration.<\/p>\n\n\n

Tomorrow’s prompt might prompt me to write more. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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