Hannity = Bad Radio

[Goat Rodeo Cowboy]

If stations are getting in an many minutes of commercial time, traffic report time, etc as some have alleged in their  posts, does that mean they are chopping up the feed as it comes in from the network and deleting part of the product Hannity delivers?

Do he and his consultants not know just how chopped-up it sounds on some stations, or do they, with a wink, send clues and instructions on where unofficial commercial breaks can be added?

[Don C]

I don't listen to Hannity on a regular basis, but here's a link to Premiere's talk programming clocks.

http://engineering.premiereradio.com/files/pages/showclocks.html

Most shows have about 9-10 minutes of local content per hour (again, not including the 6 at the top of the hour), but Hannity has 13:20. Beck has 11:10, Dan Patrick about 9. Rush has 9:10, but has more network spots. I'm obviously no expert, but from an untrained eye it would appear that Hannity sells well for the local affiliates.

On a side note, check out the clock for George Noory. I bet lots of people who talk for a living on the radio would love to have the time he has.

[DToTheJ]

Remember that about 5-7 minutes of Noory's allotted talk time is taken up by a minute or two of a song snippet leading into and coming out of each segment. So it's pretty much a level playing field as far as actual talk time amongst the aforementioned hosts.

[OhioMediaWatch]

The C2C clock is designed for stations that just want to run the show with little automation.

A station doesn't have to do contact closures for C2C...they can just throw an automated stopset at top and bottom of the hour, inserted by time only.  At least that's the way it was the last time I looked at the clock for that show.

[Don C]

Remember that about 5-7 minutes of Noory's allotted talk time is taken up by a minute or two of a song snippet leading into and coming out of each segment. So it's pretty much a level playing field as far as actual talk time amongst the aforementioned hosts.

I was mainly referring to the large chunks of time that he has. I'm sure a lot of that is because he's on a lighter selling daypart, but having almost 20 minutes uninterrupted to talk sounds like fun.

[SRGuide]

Noory does something that is pretty unique and the opposite of what consultants preach.  I think it may go back to Art Bell's days.

Once the show goes live, Noory sets the stage of what is on that hour, and immediately goes to commercials.   That means when he comes back, people are prepared for what they are about to hear (perhaps looking at the information on the web site during the break) and he has a very long uninterrupted segment for the guest to tell their story.