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“Advertising on NPR”

From: Seth Dillingham In Response To: Top of Thread.  
Date Posted: Saturday, March 9, 2002 11:20:27 AM Replies: 3
   
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Just a quick rant: I'm sick of all the advertising on NPR. A couple of years ago NPR sounded very different than it does now. They couch the ads in terms of "mentioning the sponsors", but it's become a little ridiculous.

My local station is WNPR.

Have any other NPR listeners noticed the same thing, in other markets?


Discussion Thread:
  • Re: Advertising on NPR (by Bill Kearney at 3/9/2002)

    There have been more 'sponsored by' messages but they're not quite advertisments. I think there used

  • Re: Advertising on NPR (by Greg Pierce at 3/9/2002)

    On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 10:29:40 -0500, Seth Dillingham wrote: >Have any other NPR listeners noticed

    • RE: Advertising on NPR (by Seth Dillingham at 3/9/2002)

      On 3/9/02, Greg Pierce said: >>Have any other NPR listeners noticed the same thing, in other >>markets?

      • RE: Advertising on NPR (by Brian Carnell at 3/9/2002)

        At 11:34 AM 3/9/2002 -0500, Seth wrote: >That's the least of it. The worst is the local station's

  • RE: Advertising on NPR (by Corinne Dillingham at 3/9/2002)

    On Sat, 09 Mar 2002 10:38:42 -0500, Bill Kearney wrote: >You do contribute to your local public radio

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