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Project Insomnia

Project Insomnia is many things, but in this context it is simply a "braindump" of whatever I happen to be thinking/reading/watching/doing at the moment. Parental guidance suggested.

Tuesday, January 03, 2006

When "Live" isn't

Air America Radio's Bay Area affiliate, 960 KQKE, has as of yesterday changed their programming schedule and applied a one-hour tape-delay to The Al Franken Show. Following is the letter I'm sending to Bob Agnew, Programming Director at KQKE.
Greetings:

In this age of streaming Internet audio and satellite radio, it is vital for traditional terrestrial broadcast radio to differentiate itself. I acknowledge and applaud your efforts to do so on 960 The Quake. However, I must take issue with your methods; specifically in applying a one-hour tape-delay to “The Al Franken Show”.

“The Al Franken Show” is a topical news/talk program which loses significant impact and relevance when replayed, whether in reruns or by tape-delay. It is meant to be heard live and suffers when not live.

I appreciate the need to provide local programming, to wit, “Keepin' it Real with Will and Willie”. However, by delaying “The Al Franken Show”, 960 The Quake ceases at 9:00 AM to be useful and becomes merely annoying.

I strongly urge you to reconsider this broadcast schedule, and respectfully request that you restore “The Al Franken Show” to live broadcast.

The courtesy of a reply is requested.
|| Andrew, 10:56 AM || ||

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