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The pledge drive is annoying, but try AM radio for a couple of hours. A few sets of radio ads and you'll beg for a pledge drive.
Wow! You lasted hours? I can't last more than a few minutes. If I want to be yelled at, I go to a metal show.
You must be using some strange new definition of the word "trustworthy" with which I am unfamiliar.
The goal indeed is 1.3 million dollars. To date we have raised about $780,000. We have been announcing the progress and overall goal today. We'll continue to do so for the rest of the drive. Perhaps we should announce it earlier - something to consider for the spring.
We greatly appreciate everyone who has made a pledge.
Arvid Hokanson
Asst. Program Director
KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio
arvid@kuow.org
KEXP
KBCS
KPLU
there is no hiding from pledge drives, except in the sweet embrace of silence. or CDs. or an ipod. but mainly silence.
Give it a week or two.
I usually find a station in another city to listen to during pledge week. KQED had their fall pledge drive already.
He's the bane of my morning commute and possibly the smuggest most annoying interviewer ever.
Not to mention, they clog up two hours with what tend to be extremely boring topics.
Today: Gardening and news from Canada!
His voice and cadence are annoying too.
@24 - My version of hell is listening to Steve Scher and Marcie Sillman banter about pledging. At some point a teacher must have told her that it's important to emphasize a word in every sentence - but she just picks a random one, regardless of which word holds the nub.
Today: Gardening and news from Canada!"
Tim Clark, I call you out at dawn, sir. Pistols or dead beavers, your choice.
Inskeep is smug defined - seriously, someone should just take him out back and cave his head in, what an asshole with the attitude in his voice
Why can't KUOW et al do the same?
For another they've actually started doing some decent local programming, especially since they got rid of the people who were basically buying their way onto the air.
To my knowledge, NW Public Radio raises about $280k per pledge drive. We're trying to raise 1.3 million. Unfortunately we can't raise 1.3 million in one day.
We constantly evaluate many of the pledge drive strategies - power hours, one-day drives, silent drives and other possibilities. Before each drive, we always discuss and evaluate our strategy.
Hope that helps explain things a bit more,
Arvid Hokanson
Asst. Program Director
KUOW Puget Sound Public Radio
arvid@kuow.org
This sense of entitlement -- everything should be free, and should be unsullied by advertising or pledge drives -- pisses the hell out of me. If someone is producing something of value they need some way to produce revenue. If you don't like that, go elsewhere -- but stop with the bitching.
I know there's my name on the KUOW wall somewhere for the giant contribution I gave them.
since you are responding to slog comments, why don't you respond to some of the questions posted above?
1. why is blowhard steve scher still on the air?
2. why so many lame gardening shows?
3. when is ross reynolds' last day?
4. why is kuow programming so boring (it even puts cats to sleep, by your host's own admission)?
I'm with Katy - I love hearing Eli stick it to smug, too-clever-by-half-or-so-she-thinks Joni Balter.
I first was annoyed by his voice - with his odd cadence and rhythm and word emphasis it was difficult to hear what he was saying. When I adapted to his voice, I realized he wasn't saying anything worth hearing anyway. I can imagine it must be difficult to maintain intelligent and/or witty dialogue on radio, but really! In trying to sound witty and/or intelligent he comes across as not very bright - and not a very good listener. Hasn't anyone ever told him his interviewing skills are minimal?
I stopped donating to KUOW long ago (when they kept axing programs I liked), listen to it for news only when I can't receive/stream KPLU (which I support, along with KEXP). The fact that their pledge drive extends so much longer than anyone else's makes it all the less likely I would ever pledge to them again.