Love AAR. Hate the commercials

[omega minimo]

OVALTINE!!!!!!!?

Never Again.


What's up with all the phony voices pretending to BE someone REAL yapping about products? Totally bloody annoying.


:yoiks: :evilfrown:

[LSK]

1. welcome to AM radio

They always have commercials like that.

[bryant69]

2. Radio Commercials in general suck

Nature of the beast, unfortunately.

Bryant
check it out --> http://politicalcomment.blogspot.com

[myrna minx]

3. As long as they never ever re-air those teeth grinding

commercials, I think I can deal with the rest of the silly commercials. Ugh. Those teeth grinding commercials made me turn my radio OFF!

[omega minimo]

5. Yeah, I forget to turn it back up and miss the shows......................

You're right, no teeth-grinding is something to be grateful for B-)

[wryter2000]

6. I'm with you

I'd actually lunge for the radio to turn it off. I almost broke a vase once. That and the toenail fungus named Digger on TV are the worst I've ever seen.

[eleny]

OH GOD!!!!

I learned to cut the sound fast on those to maintain my sanity. I'm so glad they're gone.

[Pharaoh]

4. Thats why Liberal radio does'nt work

You have to be a Moran to buy into the whole advertising garbage!

[omega minimo]

7. MORE RICH CHOCOLATE OVALTINE PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:hi:

[LSK]

8. liberal radio is so bad that Randi Rhodes got a 4 year contract extension

It must really suck huh! :sarcasm:

[Pharaoh]

I didn't mean it that way

but some of those commercials could be directed at more intelligent life forms and they might be more effective.

[eleny]

9. conservative radio does the same thing and enjoyed decades of success

Btw, liberal radio does work. It works just fine for me. I know how to work the sound control.

[omega minimo]

11. !

:spray:

[in_cog_ni_to]

10. They've picked up some BIG NAME advertisers lately...Chevy, Ford,

Ovaltine ;) We shouldn't complain. They're keeping AAR on the air.:hi:

[omega minimo]

13. Except when we turn it off cuz of obnoxious commercials

:shrug:


AND you make a good point :thumbsup:

[The Witch]

12. Hear, here.

And we're back! But before we get back to the music, this news JUST CAME IN!

You can start calling tomorrow morning!

(Funny, that's what he said yesterday!)

[Zodiak]

14. "I can go to the beach without a towel around my waist"

Anyone get the reference?

The commercials are repetitive and suck, yes, but the programming is well-worth it.

[Zhade]

15. Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, WAL-MART...

That's why I no longer listen to AAR. How can I expect them to investigate corporate abuse with sponsors like these?

[skiddlybop]

17. Hey, there's plenty of commentary against all of them

if you would only listen...

You've been missing Randi, Al and Sam all calling Big Pharma out day after day. Especially as regards the attempt to kill Social Security and the way they fund Congresslobbyists.

You miss it all because you jump to a conclusion.

Stupid Glenn Beck burned up the radio budget for his stupid Headline News show advertising on AAR and I Laughed!!! I'm glad that redneck wingnut wasted money and put it into AAR's pocket!!! Now his show tanked and he gave money to Air America! HAHAHAHAHHH!!!

[Lost-in-FL]

24. You forgot Glenn Beck commercials

:eyes:

[dogday]

16. Support your AAR station, buy Ovaltine

I keep the google ads on here at DU, and click on them at every opportunity I have to help support the cause...


Reminds me of the movie "A Christmas Story" about the little boy who gets a decoder ring and can't wait to break the code and when he figures it out the code said.....

"Be sure to drink your Ovaltine" :rofl:

[omega minimo]

19. What a gyp!

:rofl:

[Gabi Hayes]

22. here's where it came from

http://www.otr.com/midnight.html





the decoder




it became a TV show in the early 50s, changing its name at some point to Jet Jackson

[omega minimo]

27. COOL!

:bounce:

[Gabi Hayes]

18. here's what you do:

they ALWAYS break at 28 and 58 minutes after the hour

always

for 6 minutes at the 28 break, and 8 at the 58 break

there's a four minute break somewhere in bewteen, during each half hour

I sit here listening online with a little timer, and I set it for the time of the break; as a result, almost never listen to commercials, or the canned newsbreaks

[omega minimo]

20. you smart gabi hayes

:hi:

[Gabi Hayes]

25. no......just highly irritable....I bought a PIP TV about 15 years ago

because commercials bugged/bug me so much, and I couldn't stand to just mute them.....I had to change channels, too

very sad

[mwb970]

35. I finally figured out the break schedule too.

What I want to know is, when I turn on my AAR station at a random time, why does it always turn out to be either 28 or 58 minutes past the hour right then?

Even the 5-minute top-of-the-hour news report has 2 or 3 commercial breaks in it. Sheesh.

I too have had to turn off the teeth-grinding commercial. Although the ones where the kids try to rouse their friends with jackhammers etc. are pretty bad too. And I don't really care for "Ew! It stinks in here!" either. That one comes and goes.

The funny thing is, I do kind of like the Geico ads, and end up memorizing them without meaning to.

[bunkerbuster1]

43. If you ever listen to podcasts from the White Rose archives...

that commercial break schedule becomes real apparent real fast. You know not to bother turning it back on until (frinstance) six after the top of the hour.

That said, why, WE LOVE THE AAR ADVERTISERS! THEY'RE the BEST!

Even the AVACORE cough snake-oil cough Hair Tonic!

[Synnical]

21. Heard a Freedom From Religion Foundation ad a few times

on AAR. That alone makes me want to listen and support the network. But, yeah, the Ovaltine commercials are annoying because there are so many of them.

[iconoclastNYC]

23. Radio is dead and AAR Premium should be free for the first three months.

[Momgonepostal]

26. This is how I feel about The Daily Show and Colbert Report

We've been staying at my mothers awhile she recovers from surgery and for the first time, have gotten Comedy Central. I love the above two shows, but some of the commericals make me cringe. And it seems like they show each Girls Gone Wild and "male enhancement" at least once during each episode. The GGW ones are especially vile.

Honestly, Ovaltine sounds great in comparison.

[omega minimo]

28. AND it's loaded with Vitamins!

:toast:

[myrna minx]

31. My mom was a die hard Hershey's syrup drinker

until she tried the rich chocolaty taste of Ovaltine. Now that's all she drinks!!!111 Hugh!11

[omega minimo]

34. Liberals unable to stomach plain milk?

Don't think so!

AND PLEASE HOLD THE BGH, TOO!! :toast:

[myrna minx]

36. GIVE IN TO THE OVALTINE !1!111

Resistance is futile. :rofl: More Ovaltine PLEASE !!1!!11!

[Touchdown]

32. So are those girls

:rofl:

[longship]

29. Well, I'm seventy-two years old...

I hate that ad. It sucks.

But I *really* hate those screaming kids on the Ovaltine ads. That's all our kids need is more sugar in their diets. Turn all kid food into candy!!! Pshaw!

[omega minimo]

33. Most of the voices sound

:yoiks: HYSTERICAL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111 SERIESLY1111111

[Touchdown]

30. It costs money, but PODCAST.

Go out and get one of those little iPod shuffles. Subscribe to AAR podcasts (it's $60 a year unlimited, less if you pick and choose shows). It's a few hours late, but you don't miss anything but the commercials.

Here's what I get ..."oh' yeah. Here's another one 'We have no evidence Saddam Hussein had anything to do with September 11th'...c'mon. The Presidents a liar. Give me something hard here. Seventeen ahftah" Guitar-drums-"You're listening to Randi Rhodes, on Air America Radio!" BANG BANG BANG....Guitar-drums-guitar-drums-hard guitar-drums-harder guitar-song bridge-guitar-drums...kazooo noise..."And now some comforting words from President Bush..."

[damntexdem]

37. And that's not as bad as the come-ons for buying gold, ...

fake business opportunities, and hate-yourself pop-psych (to be successful, you have to learn to deserve success).

[John1956PA]

38. The commercial touting the investment method was the last straw for me.

I can handle the ads for legitimate products or services such as Olvaltine and Terminex. However, I hate ads for gimmicks such as invention marketing and get-rich-quick schemes. For me, the most appalling ad was the one for some type of investment method. The most disgusting part of that wretched ad was a quick "testimonial" which was ostensibly from a successful subscriber to the method. The testimonial consisted of a female voice-over which went something like "It's the easiest way there is to get rich." The voice sounded like that of an unintelligent bratty young girl who spoke too fast and enunciated poorly. After finding myself muting the streaming audio whenever the commercial came on, I decided to quit Air-America altogether.

[Gabi Hayes]

40. I heard Randi doing a gold commercial today

that is VERY bad stuff AFA cred goes

[blues90]

39. all commercials bug me

I just try to ignore them , they should at least just put them at the half hour point and let the show go longer inbetween .

The ones during Malloy's show are the worst . They make radio possible so I suffer to hear the shows .

[Gabi Hayes]

41. check this...it made my life SO much more pleasant

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=1588295&mesg_id=1588433

[clbuck]

42. They can't have just 2 breaks per hour

Otherwise they'd be about 9-10 minutes long. Each hour has about 19 minutes of commercials, and 3 minutes of news, with the remainder reserved for the show.

I think Air America should do what Jones Radio network does and have 5 show segments per hour instead of 4; that way, each commercial break isn't as long.

Otherwise, just follow the http://www.thomhartmann.com/thomshow.pdf">program clock (with hard breaks at :28 and :58 past the hour, and floating breaks at around :16 and :46 past the hour). That way you'll know when to mute the commercials, and when to unmute it when the show comes back.

All of commercial talk radio has a lot of breaks, not just Air America.