Re: Jackass,Viacom&CBS

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On 3 Jun 2001,  Bill O'Neill wrote:

> Agreed.  Most here on this list are button pushers - quite a few now
> more about the radio scene than, perhaps, 90% of the market.  I don't
> think people dial surf as much as we think. A listener to WODS does,
> IMHO, have the attention span (that happens with age) to "wait" ninety
> seconds to hear the news headlines or <gasp> survive 200 seconds of
> local news with <gasp> sound.  Are we not forgetting that spot breaks
> on some stations can last 6 minutes and rarely do people discuss TSL
> concerns over that.  

And years ago, WCOP was "The Plough, Incorporated Stations, where you're 
never more than five minutes away from music!"  The five minutes were the 
hourly news breaks.


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