Last day of KCSM's Fall Pledge Drive, and they are $103,000 short (!) of their goal. And here's why I give them grief at pledge time: they lost a LOT of listener trust after the great clusterf*** of Feb 2017. And yet there was Alisa Clancy this morning, going on about how there's "always" a live person on the air. Except there isn't -- we get canned programming from Chicago in the 10p to 6a hours. There *used* to be live deejays in late-nite, but the College of San Mateo messed up the sale of their TV station and tried to recoup by forcing the radio station to eliminate 30 hrs a week of live programming, which served the added purpose of sticking it to the announcer's union. Sad situation all around, but fudging the facts doesn't help.
I understand the sentiment, but that programming from Chicago could be live. Just because its remove, doesn't make it automatically canned. So if it's live from Chicago from 10-6, then the statement is accurate.
Most major market radio stations are no longer live in the overnight unless it's a national show. Revenue from overnights is nil. You might hear some request shows or mix shows running until 2 on the weekends.
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/21/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/21Rradio.html
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