A little update regarding closing or selling the site.
Stream Insanity
This is the kind of insanity listening to the ticket stream provides some days. I frantically search for where I have two players playing at the same time until I realize it’s… “a cumulus station”.
And “No” this is not doctored at all. If you listen to the stream at all you know this happens. Kind of like at the end of certain commercials, once it stops, there’s a “dot com” at the end. More insanity.
I HATE IT when this happens. Not sure why it does, but luckily I’m always a little behind ‘live’ (build-up method), so I’m usually able to fast forward through commercials, all the way until after Conrad does his little “bad radio; bring it every day, from noon til 3. Bob Dan and Donnie do decimate Dallas/Fort Worth problems like nobody’s bidness, only on sports radio 1310 The Ticket.”
My eyes go all pinwheel and I am taken in by the large, squishy arms of insanity during commercial breaks. One second I’m listening to the Big Man talk about his new thumb stomach, then I catch the tail end of a sweet jack dog bark, capped off with a nice dot com.
I’ve never experienced this insanity, but every time I start the player and the Risk Guru commercial begins SCREAMING at me (“No scary clowns!”) I want to punch my computer to death, put on clown makeup and systematically hunt down every human involved with the production of that commercial, and make them pay…
Worked in radio a while back and we had different ads for the stream and for broadcast. Kinda sounds that way with the lil’ Ticket. Occasionally they don’t flip the correct switch, so to say, so you hear both ads. Also, I would guess the .com you hear every break is the final seconds of the final broadcast ad – and the stream ads just wrapped up early.
I could be completely wrong, but that’s my best guess.
I used to love the Driver Select ad where Donavan says “Maybe one of those clown cars!”