I would never want FTL to do the average gimmicky hot talk format at all. No wacky stunts or bits... special phone call days... etc etc...
That would be awful. My rock radio days are long over. In addition, it's worth noting that of the list of all of the Hot Talk shows you posted earlier in the thread, only a handful of them are on a bunch of stations, and those shows that are, like Bob and Tom and Opie and Anthony, have been at it for years.
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While I don't know about Bob and Tom, FTL is about half as old as Opie and Anthony which started in 1995. FTL started in 2002. O+A were off terrestrial airwaves for 4 years... Which means that they are technically only 3 years older than FTL - just to be clear.
Bob and Tom, a show I have heard of (through Torgo) , but never actually listened to... Has indeed been on the air for a long time, since 1983.
When I mean that I want FTL to conscious of moods, I mean that if you are going to talk about a cop beat down story, that you follow up with an upbeat story... to get people back in a good mood...
I would suggest that FTL always try to end the show on a positive note... I would suggest that FTL try to break up the moods within the hour... so that you don't get a 2 hour block of just being depressed....
Maybe you're just too easily depressed... Listening to FTL doesn't depress me, I'm usually entertained.
Besides, when the show is working as it is intended to work, the callers completely direct the program. Trying to impose some sort of structure on that would be a problem.
Well, if you are going to keep pretending that you don't dump out really fast now on callers with non issues oriented, or politically oriented topics... Then I am going to return to my initial call to action for people to phone in with more generalized topics and even bits.
The "character" callers that used to be attracted to FTL were fantastic... Now, instead of Sanjay and Underworld Frank, we have callers like Paula and Rita. Yuck.
Hell even Corey calling Ian a douche was more entertaining than some of the kooks droning incessant nonsense.
Eh, I have done what I wanted to do... which is to pull the lid off this and reveal it to the listeners. I'm not outright saying you are lying Ian, and I was leaving it open for you being completely unaware of the fact that you act completely differently on the show now, and have mostly stopped being playful with topics and have moved toward what SEEMS like intentionally trying to drive the show toward political topics, and rarely ever bringing up any non-political topics of your own.
However, you can no longer claim to be unaware of it, and I wanted the listeners to be aware of it as well, and to actually let it be known that you are openly saying that it is their job to call in with different topics and that you will supposedly interact and go with those topics as per the principle of Free Talk Live.
I also wanted it to be clear that most people DEFINITELY do not see FTL as being 50/50 Hot Talk / Political talk, and that it is definitely and strongly weighted toward political topics.
There is another question that needs to be asked... you simply ASSUME things work. I'm someone who likes to push boundaries to see what is possible. I think things like market research, and demographics are proven concepts that work, and work well. Some of the biggest mistakes businesses have ever made, were made by ASSUMING they were doing EVERYTHING right, and not pushing to define and redefine their boundaries.
I mean, how often have I now provided you with information that was totally contradictory to your ASSUMPTIONS simply because I had the wherewithal to ASK?