Is FTL Hot Talk or Political Talk?

100% Political Talk / 0% Hot Talk

1 (2.1%)

90% Political Talk / 10% Hot Talk

9 (19.1%)

80% Political Talk / 20% Hot Talk

16 (34%)

70% Political Talk / 30% Hot Talk

15 (31.9%)

60% Political Talk / 40% Hot Talk

2 (4.3%)

50% Political Talk / 50% Hot Talk

3 (6.4%)

40% Political Talk / 60% Hot Talk

1 (2.1%)

30% Political Talk / 70% Hot Talk

0 (0%)

20% Political Talk / 80% Hot Talk

0 (0%)

10% Political Talk / 90% Hot Talk

0 (0%)

0% Political Talk / 100% Hot Talk

0 (0%)

Total Members Voted: 29

[Johnson]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hot_talk
As listed on Wikipedia, Examples of Hot Talk Shows include:
    * Adam Carolla Show
    * Big O and Dukes
    * The Bob and Tom Show
    * Bubba the Love Sponge
    * Don and Mike
    * The Frank Show
    * Frosty Heidi & Frank
    * The Howard Stern Show
    * John and Jeff
    * The Junkies
    * Lex and Terry
    * Tom Leykis
    * The Monsters in the Morning
    * The MJ Morning Show
    * Opie and Anthony
    * Ron and Fez
    * Rover's Morning Glory
    * Mancow's Morning Madhouse
    * The Asylum
    * Best In Show Radio
    * Keith and the Girl
    * Red Bar Radio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk_radio
As listed on Wikipedia, Examples of Politcal Talk Shows include:

    * Ben Ferguson
    * Lars Larson
    * Sean Hannity
    * G. Gordon Liddy
    * Laura Ingraham
    * Neal Boortz
    * Michael Savage
    * Bill O'Reilly
    * Glenn Beck
    * Larry Elder
    * Mark Levin
    *  Michael Reagan
    * Ken Hamblin
    * Anthony Harper
    * Christian Hugh
    * Hewitt Dennis Prager
    * Michael Medved.
    * Free Talk Live (based in New Hampshire) (yes we are listed on politics on wikipedia)
    * Penn Jillette
    * Jay Severin
    * Mark Davis
    * Al Franken
    * Ed Schultz
    * Alan Colmes
    * Lionel,
    * Thom Hartmann
    * Bill Press
    * Stephanie Miller
    * Bernie Ward
    * Jack Ellery
    * Dave Ross
    * Marc Germain

[Porcupine_in_MA]

"70% Political Talk / 30% Hot Talk"  to me.

[error]

I'd like to see it go back closer to 50/50. The hot talk topics seem to generate a lot of interest and occasionally phone calls.

[gibson042]

Hmm...

Wednesday 07/25/07
P Personality Disorders, Depleted Uranium, and Experimental Injections
P Convincing the troops to refuse bad orders?
P The right time for activism.
P Ron Paul and Immigration
P US Immigration Laws Suck
P Protectionist Whiner
P Lawyers Love Immigration Laws
P The Yard Cop
H Culture

Tuesday 07/24/07
H Metaphysics
H Free Minds TV's Nick Joins the Show
P Drug Dealers
P Middle School Sex Offenders?
H Cowardly Journalists
H The misuse of "pedophile".
P Military kicking out gay Arab linguists!
H Animals and Children
H 10 things to not do on a first date.
H Bizarre Dating Story
P Communists and Violence
P Free Market Food

Monday 07/23/07
P Another frightening expansion of executive power.
H Raw Deal
P State of Emergency
P Decentralization
P More philosophical discussion on property rights and political systems, this time with Gardner Goldsmith.

Saturday 07/21/07
P More on property rights and belief systems.
P Polluting Property
P The Indians and Property
P NH Dave Is Free Again
P More on Property
P Ethanol is a subsidy we're all going to pay dearly for.
H Nuclear Power
H Liquid Petroleum
P Juvenile Detention Hell
P Restitution
H Hemp Fuel
P Victimless Crimes

Friday 07/20/07
P Steve Kubby endorses Ron Paul
P An extensive discussion of social contracts, common law, property rights, communism, capitalism, and the free market.

I may have misunderstood the categories or misremembered the topics, and the list is not time-weighted (or statistically significant), but I'd put FTL at about 70% political.

[error]

Mark is all about selling ads...

[Johnson]

Well, the way you laid it out, it was 12 Hot top talk issues to 28 political. That's about 43% Hot talk... but you listed...

THESE TOPICS as Hot Talk?

H Culture
H Metaphysics
H Free Minds TV's Nick Joins the Show
H Cowardly Journalists
H The misuse of "pedophile".
H Animals and Children
H 10 things to not do on a first date.
H Bizarre Dating Story

H Raw Deal
H Nuclear Power
H Liquid Petroleum
H Hemp Fuel


These are ISSUES oriented topics... Even Bill O'Reilly, Medved, Savage... Limbaugh... etc etc... They do ISSUES talk. That's what a Political talk show DOES to add some salt and pepper interest...

Out of those above issues...
I'd call THESE TWO hot talk.

H 10 things to not do on a first date.
H Bizarre Dating Story

2 out of 28 is about 7% Hot Talk. That's probably about accurate.

I'd go ahead and say 10% Hot Talk, 25% Issues, and about 75% politics...

[Johnson]

Doesn't having more listeners sell ads?

So you guys are blaming the level of political vs hot talk on Mark?

Maybe, if he's somehow convinced Ian of something... but when the show first started, Mark was on it... and it was WAY further toward Hot Talk back then.

[bonerjoe]

Doesn't having more listeners sell ads?

I heard FTL wasn't taking advertising.

[gibson042]

Well, the way you laid it out, it was 12 Hot top talk issues to 28 political. That's about 43% Hot talk...

You may want to check again.  Or publish.

[Andy]

2 out of 28 is about 7% Hot Talk. That's probably about accurate.

I'd go ahead and say 10% Hot Talk, 25% Issues, and about 75% politics...

110%

[Johnson]

Well, the way you laid it out, it was 12 Hot top talk issues to 28 political. That's about 43% Hot talk...

You may want to check again.  Or publish.

Umm, I don't know what equation that is, but it's not the one for calculation of percentages...

12/28 = .4285 *100 = 43%

or an easier one you can verify in your head
9/27 = .33(repeating) *100 = 33%  (or 33.33 if you want to not round)

Anyway... 12 is NOT 30% of 28. 8.4 is.

Where did you learn that silly equation? (Government school?)

[annyab]

I like the mix up between hot talk and political issues. I think its about 70% / 30%, but its a good mix up and makes me a little less depressed about the government for a few minutes

[FTL_Ian]

Doesn't having more listeners sell ads?

So you guys are blaming the level of political vs hot talk on Mark?

Maybe, if he's somehow convinced Ian of something... but when the show first started, Mark was on it... and it was WAY further toward Hot Talk back then.

No one on the show made a conscious decision to go more political.  It used to be more Hot Talk in the past simply because we were on a Hot Talk station.

Our Hot Talk topics are doing better these days than they were a couple of years ago because we have a slightly wider live listenership during our weekday show.  Still, 100% of our affiliates are News/Talk stations.

[FTL_Ian]

In addition, there are two reasons why it is difficult to get this show on a Hot Talk station.

1.  They're just simply aren't very many of them, (may be less than 10 of them nationwide) so it's statistically far less likely.
2.  Many of the program directors of Hot Talkers are laboring under the misconception that their listeners only want to hear pop-culture (dumb) talk, so they have a natural bias against a show with some intelligence.

I predict that as we add more FM News/Talk stations to our affiliate list, the Hot Talk topics will do better and better as a result of the generally younger audience on the FM band.

[wtfk]

I agree with the guy who called in to say you have a conundrum on your hands.  If the AMP program is for spreading talk about liberty, then the show is, nominally about spreading liberty, or the AMP program reads are somewhat less than accurate.