If there are 1000 callers on the Red Sox and 5 callers on the Patriots, and it reflects the listening audience to any reasonable degree, you can bet your bottom dollar that the station will be talking Red Sox a lot more than it will be talking Patriots. It's the nature of the beast. It's also the nature of the beast that it's easier to talk Baseball than football due to the complexity of football and the ability for people to break down the games, as I believe both F&M acknowledged on air earlier this week.
That isn't true. There are never any Celtics calls on the radio until they want to talk Celtics on the air and there are caller after caller. They take like 5-10 calls an hour on the air in a typical hour depending on what is going on. The people who get on the air are only a fraction of the people who call. We have heard many times on this board on how callers are turned away because they wanted to talk football and screener said they are only talking baseball.
Callers never reflect the audience on the whole. Only about 5-10% of any radio show's audience ever calls in and they tend to be the more passionate people and not neccessarily reflective of the audience in general. That is pretty well documented for radio in general.
The format hasn't changed. The host sets up the segment at the top of the hour and the screener tries to only let through callers who have something to say about that topic. A given host might allow multiple topics though.
Yes, it is. Because the callers are inherently mediocre, and the hosts must speak to a generalized audience with a somewhat average knowledge of whatever is being discussed. If they don't, they'll be out of a job. Again, it's simply the nature of the beast.
You are not giving the host enough credit. What can make good or bad radio is the host's response to the caller. On the Big Show they have even less callers because of their panel format and their show is worse than others who take a lot of calls.
You're making up numbers and hearing what you want to hear. You are not hearing what's actually happening.
I already said those numbers were made up for example purposes. As for hearing what I want to hear, most people agree that listen to both stations that 98.5 do more Patriots. Even when WEEI does football, it isn't Patriots football. It is hotbutton issues like Vick, Plaxico, or Favre. I don't consider that real Patriots talk. If I want to listen about Vick, Plaxico, or Favre I will tune into a national show.
I'm not underestimating it at all. You've been coming from a biased position since even before the new station came online, and it's clouded your judgment from the beginning. I believe this was already demonstrated earlier in the thread on a day where you were claiming WEEI hadn't been talking football (or much football) despite Mo and myself pointing to the Patriots talk that was going on during that time.
Ring! Hello, Pot. This is the Kettle. You're black.
I am biased, but you and Mo were blasting 98.5 for being a failure weeks before the station even started to air. You cannot call be bias when you didn't even give this station a chance before you hated it. How can you not be biased when you hate something before you even listened to it?
Again, 98.5 talks more Patriots than WEEI that is pretty clear.
Actually, I'm using today as an example, nothing more, because WEEI is doing its fundraising for the Jimmy Fund today and I decided to leave it on the new station all day. I've posted regarding content on other days, as well. It's not my fault that they spoke "all baseball, all the time", just as it's not my fault that the feed has stopped working.
So just because you missed the Patriots talk earlier in the week, doesn't mean it doesn't happen. Just because Tanguay and Zo decided to talk all Red Sox on a day you happened to turn away from WEEI doesn't
That's tomorrow. Today, football pretty much didn't exist for them, which is what you were complaining about with WEEI.
There is only so much Patriots you can talk this time of the year. If you dedicate two entire shows this week to the Patriots (Tuesday and Friday), how much more can you talk about them. It is two more entire days of Patriots than any show on WEEI dedicated their entire show to the Pats this week.
It's a new station that hasn't yet developed its own 'celebrity callers'. As a local station, it will do so eventually. As I noted, it's already in the process of happening, as repeat callers have already begun the process. It may not be "John from Medford", but it will be someone.
The celebrity callers like John from Medford and Steve from Fall River call all the radio stations. They like to hear themselves talk. Some are loyal to a single show like Dakota from Braintree and Jim the Wrestling Goon who only call the Big Show and not any other station or any other show on WEEI, but they are the exception.
But I'm not twisting your comments. In your case, you're running precisely counter to what I've posted when you claim I want the station to fail.
Ok, you thought it sucked even before they aired a single second of radio time. Of course that isn't biased. I am not exactly surprised that you wouldn't admit you are wrong even when I offer the olive branch on this.
Again, this is personal preference and nothing more. Some like Adams and others don't. That's been my point to you all along. You're taking your personal preferences and acting as if they are absolutes that all are in agreement with.
Again twisting my words. I have never said my opinion were anything more than opinions. Why would I repeatedly say "many people agree with me" or if I was stating my opinions as facts or absolutes. You should really look in the mirror on this one because almost everything you are accussing me of, you are doing yourself.
