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Back in the day when Coast to Coast had an intelligent host who could think on his feet, Art would take cold calls - called unscreened calls. The topic of conversation was also intelligent as were most of the callers. These days, C2C has become an informercial circus with dimwitted Noory as the circus barker. The callers are screened 2 and 3 times before coming on air (I know someone who called in and was screened 3 times). I think Tommy screens the callers to make sure they don't ask Noory any difficult question that he can't answer. The result is that the callers have become stupider and stupider through the years and many have remarked on the lack of quality callers anymore.
Enter Premiere On Call, a service of paid actors who call into Clear Channel shows. There is an almost daily caller, Jeff from Culver City who asks really long and thoughful questions. He also sounds like he is reading his question. Then Noory will answer something that is far more intelligent than anything that regularly comes out of the mouth of that ape. Noory also sounds like he is reading from a script. Coincidence?
What say you. Is Noory taking paid actors calls?
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb...the-radio-show-called-Coast-to-Coast-AM/page3
There is an excellent, thorough and very enlightening Wikipedia entry on Clear Channel Communications that is a highly informative and worthwhile read that can certainly explain Clear Channel with more clarity and detail than I can here. However, the next time you listen to callers on Coast to Coast, consider this little factoid from the aforementioned Wikipedia entry, "Clear Channel, through its subsidiary, Premiere Radio Networks, auditions and hires actors to call in to talk radio shows and pose as listeners in order to provide shows, carried by Clear Channel and other broadcasters, with planned content in the form of stories and opinions." Times have surely changed at Coast to Coast since the days of Art Bell.
http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/archive/index.php/t-242362.html
Premier Radio Networks (owned by Clear Channel) includes Rush Limbaugh, Jim Rome, Ryan Seacrest, Glenn Beck, George Noory, and Sean Hannity. They have 5000 stations and almost 200,000,000 combined listeners.
So is the "smack off" fake (not entirely *shocking* thinking about it)? Are the callers to Beck, Limbaugh and Hannity scripted propaganda? Worst off all, maybe the callers to Coast-to-Coast might not actually be crazy?
http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/premiere_plants.php
The Kicker — February 14, 2011 12:35 PM
Premiere Plants
By Liz Cox Barrett
Well, here’s a shocker: Some of the people who phone in to talk radio shows (that caller with the pitch-perfect rant, provocative comment or burning question) may actually be hired actors reading from scripts. I’m not an angry listener, but I play one on radio!
Via Tablet Magazine:
If [the actor] passed the audition, he would be invited periodically to call in to various talk shows and recite various scenarios that made for interesting radio. He would never be identified as an actor, and his scenarios would never be identified as fabricated—which they always were.
“I was surprised that it seemed so open,” the actor told me in an interview. “There was really no pretense of covering it up.”
Curious, the actor did some snooping and learned that Premiere On Call was a service offered by Premiere Radio Networks, the largest syndication company in the United States and a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, the entertainment and advertising giant. Premiere syndicates some of the more sterling names in radio, including Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity. But a great radio show depends as much on great callers as it does on great hosts: Enter Premiere On Call.
“Premiere On Call is our new custom caller service,” read the service’s website, which disappeared as this story was being reported (for a cached version of the site click here). “We supply voice talent to take/make your on-air calls, improvise your scenes or deliver your scripts. Using our simple online booking tool, specify the kind of voice you need, and we’ll get your the right person fast. Unless you request it, you won’t hear that same voice again for at least two months, ensuring the authenticity of your programming for avid listeners.”
Ensuring the authenticity of your programming… with paid, planted callers.
I have a call in to Premiere On Call, asking which of Premiere’s many radio programs have used the “custom caller service.” I’ll update if I hear back.
Enter Premiere On Call, a service of paid actors who call into Clear Channel shows. There is an almost daily caller, Jeff from Culver City who asks really long and thoughful questions. He also sounds like he is reading his question. Then Noory will answer something that is far more intelligent than anything that regularly comes out of the mouth of that ape. Noory also sounds like he is reading from a script. Coincidence?
What say you. Is Noory taking paid actors calls?
http://www.candlepowerforums.com/vb...the-radio-show-called-Coast-to-Coast-AM/page3
There is an excellent, thorough and very enlightening Wikipedia entry on Clear Channel Communications that is a highly informative and worthwhile read that can certainly explain Clear Channel with more clarity and detail than I can here. However, the next time you listen to callers on Coast to Coast, consider this little factoid from the aforementioned Wikipedia entry, "Clear Channel, through its subsidiary, Premiere Radio Networks, auditions and hires actors to call in to talk radio shows and pose as listeners in order to provide shows, carried by Clear Channel and other broadcasters, with planned content in the form of stories and opinions." Times have surely changed at Coast to Coast since the days of Art Bell.
http://www.chiefsplanet.com/BB/archive/index.php/t-242362.html
Premier Radio Networks (owned by Clear Channel) includes Rush Limbaugh, Jim Rome, Ryan Seacrest, Glenn Beck, George Noory, and Sean Hannity. They have 5000 stations and almost 200,000,000 combined listeners.
So is the "smack off" fake (not entirely *shocking* thinking about it)? Are the callers to Beck, Limbaugh and Hannity scripted propaganda? Worst off all, maybe the callers to Coast-to-Coast might not actually be crazy?
http://www.cjr.org/the_kicker/premiere_plants.php
The Kicker — February 14, 2011 12:35 PM
Premiere Plants
By Liz Cox Barrett
Well, here’s a shocker: Some of the people who phone in to talk radio shows (that caller with the pitch-perfect rant, provocative comment or burning question) may actually be hired actors reading from scripts. I’m not an angry listener, but I play one on radio!
Via Tablet Magazine:
If [the actor] passed the audition, he would be invited periodically to call in to various talk shows and recite various scenarios that made for interesting radio. He would never be identified as an actor, and his scenarios would never be identified as fabricated—which they always were.
“I was surprised that it seemed so open,” the actor told me in an interview. “There was really no pretense of covering it up.”
Curious, the actor did some snooping and learned that Premiere On Call was a service offered by Premiere Radio Networks, the largest syndication company in the United States and a subsidiary of Clear Channel Communications, the entertainment and advertising giant. Premiere syndicates some of the more sterling names in radio, including Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, and Sean Hannity. But a great radio show depends as much on great callers as it does on great hosts: Enter Premiere On Call.
“Premiere On Call is our new custom caller service,” read the service’s website, which disappeared as this story was being reported (for a cached version of the site click here). “We supply voice talent to take/make your on-air calls, improvise your scenes or deliver your scripts. Using our simple online booking tool, specify the kind of voice you need, and we’ll get your the right person fast. Unless you request it, you won’t hear that same voice again for at least two months, ensuring the authenticity of your programming for avid listeners.”
Ensuring the authenticity of your programming… with paid, planted callers.
I have a call in to Premiere On Call, asking which of Premiere’s many radio programs have used the “custom caller service.” I’ll update if I hear back.
