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Betsy replied to my second post on “Pledge Drive Don’ts” and mentioned Ira Glass (from This American Life) and his Pledge Drive bit about how a WBEZ-FM listener will enthusiastically fork over $1.81 every day at Starbucks and listen to WBEZ five hours a day but … he hasn’t made a pledge to WBEZ. Click…
MRKinLA made some excellent points in his reply to my “Pledge Drive Don’ts” post. MRKinLA writes about how public radio stations have a “… tendency to throw the local voice talent onto the airwaves with no scripting, ad libbing themselves in a downward spiral of inane comments like the ones you mention here — “Stop…
I don’t mean to go off on a rant here … but while commuting to work this morning, I writhed in pain as I endured KUT-FM groveling on-air for donations from listeners. The groveling was almost as pathetic as I had experienced listening to vocal Lyndon Larouche supporters accosting passer-bys on the downtown streets of…