Talking with a James O’Keefe, Alex Jones asserted he has been picked up by some 50,000 watt stations.
“We are on a lot of 50,000 watters – a lot of new stations right now, like now 20 new stations in the last month”
Is that true?
First thing to know is that a 50 kw FM station is a relatively modest station, unlike an AM class A station which is a monster. Because of GCN’s business model, GCN does not require affidavits stating that affiliates actually carry the shows. It only says they “may ask” stations for a monthly report. I don’t see any affiliate lists anymore on the GCN web site.
Basics of GCN affiliation
GCN Affiliation agreement
GCN charges the stations nothing to use the programming. The only real thing the station agrees to do is to let the network ads play. GCN’s owner and general manager is a man named Ted Anderson. He also owns Midas Resources, which sells the health supplements sold by Alex Jones. For about the past month, Jones regularly “skips” network breaks – it’s clear he is getting pushback lately for not selling enough colon cleanser pills. Anderson’s company also sells gold and silver coins, or at least used to.
Alex Jones knows he must be prepared to leave terrestrial radio and survive on the Internet stream, YouTube and satellite. The Alex Jones Show clock is very unconventional. The only time available to the local stations (unless they cheat) is from the top of the hour until :08 (the first five minutes is an optional segment if the station doesn’t have news), three minutes at :30 and one minute before the top of hour station ID. 26 minutes of non-stop Alex Jones is grating on the nerves. Forget any notion of the station slipping in traffic or weather reports.
The last Facebook post from GCN was in June announcing it was disconnecting its MP3 streams in favor of using HTML5.
Once in a while when talking about network syndication, hosts will ask callers to tell them which station the caller is listening to. That gives advertisers a little reassurance that someone might actually hear their ads, may highlight big stations that are not actually airing the show but claiming to, and act as a filter to detect “seminar callers” who are just calling in blind to a radio show from a location with no actual live affiliate to listen to.
I notice in that video that Dr Laura was shown in 2010 pitching gold.
Dr Laura has moved to the “call out” model used by many shows where people who want to be on the show submit contact information wanting an appointment. Calling the caller permits a producer to do a preinterview and screening, so the host can magically have insights into a problem without actually hearing anything on the phone to suggest the details. If the call goes poorly, the recording is just discarded or the low quality parts edited out. As long as the caller and Dr Laura avoid date references and current events, this creates an “evergreen” program that will sound fresh 20 years from now.
Dr Laura is heard on Sirius XM channel 109 from 11AM-2PM PT (2-5 PM ET)
Yeah I heard him say that too Fred. They always reference a station in Alabama, Dave Hodges is on that station too.
I know Alex is on a station in Alcoa TN and a AM station in MT Jackson Virginia, ( In the Shenandoah valley right along I-81 ) They have a pretty long signal along the interstate for a 1000 watt station.
I don’t know how many listen to it while traveling. Most people beat their dashboard just because of traffic, but it also could be Alex, I guess.
If you know the frequency you can stretch WMAL to Winchester VA, with a good car radio, and then enter in the Mt Jackson station and almost stretch it to Staunton VA, south on 81.
I hate those shows that make no reference to current events or time , they just suck. Some times Dave (beans and rice) ramsey is like that.
more wikileaks today,
parrott
There is an answer but it costs money 😉 Depending on how old your car is, take your cell phone along and stream via your cell data. If you car has an “audio in” jack or Bluetooth, you can feed the audio to the car speakers.
If you have T-Mobile some streaming (like iHeartRadio) does not burn data. Audio from talk stations burns maybe 12 MB/Hr – LTE data is around $10/GB, or 12 cents an hour. Once you have it working, there are 12,000 station in your “car radio”. Newer cars have “TuneIn” and iHeartRadio built into the entertainment system, so you don’t even need this directory, hence my shrinking interest in maintaining it. I pointed out three years ago that Tunein was the future unless they disappear some day.
yeah I have one that has that Bluetooth stuff.
Not that interested in trying to get it to work, guess I am told to try to figure it out, Now my wife loves it and my niece is the go to girl for anything iPhone, 5th grade, LOL
I have VLC on the phone but it doesn’t play anything, I guess there is something to set up in it. I think I should look on youtube and see if there is a video or something that describes how to use it.
Is traffic up on Streaming Radio Guide ? I still tell everyone about it,
parrott
One of the benefits of no profit motive is I don’t have to care about traffic counts. About the only thing I pay attention to is google search results, but even that can be misleading because Google incorporates your search history – so I may just be seeing the website because I use it so much. If you go to Bing and search streaming radio station, I’m the first non-paid (organic) listing, but only about 5 people in the enire world use Bing!
Another hint that GCN and Alex Jones are drifting apart is he mentioned a couple weeks ago they now have their own phone lines instead of using the GCN lines in Minnesota. Alex brags about getting 30,000 abandoned calls during a show without taking a single phone call, or when he does take calls he gets agitated all of his callers are conspiracy nuts. Shocking, I know.
His most significant new affiliate is iHeart’s KEIB-AM in Los Angeles, but the show is on in the middle of the night when the power is 44 kw, down from the 50 kw daytime power. The signal is directional, pointing SW over the ocean, not inland. He’s also heard on WVNJ in New Jersey ((which can be heard in parts of New York City) from 7-9 PM ET – but if you’re willing to listen “non live”, the podcast is much better, especially the fast forward button.
My wife’s car has the bluetooth option. I don’t have it in my truck. I have iHeart in my phone but the stations tend to vanish for a few seconds every 5 or so minutes. Apparently, this is somewhat normal for iHeart. Actually I use your site in my iPhone, using my Safari browser just for streaming. Then with a bluetooth ear adapter (Tronfy) I get perfect reception. This works fine for me.
Anyone else listening to Alex Jones ? he’s killing me, or grossing me out.
Is NYPD going to arrest ‘Big Hill’ on child trafficking ?
if not he needs to quit talking about killing and Bohemian grove and sacrificing.
its rough today.
parrott
I usually listen on podcast so I can skip the ads. Has Alex ever considered if he didn’t keep washing out his colon he might not need those expensive probiotics?
Not to mention it’s a great place to store your gold bouillon
LOL! Exactly. I stopped listening (on a regular basis) a few months ago… simply too much ‘tabloid’ radio and snake oil.
There is a peculiar station in Chicagoland – WCGO-AM in Evanston. It’s the station that had Milt Rosenberg and then Bruce Dumont. He currently carries Alex Jones but is unhappy because nobody will buy ads. Shocking!⚡️
So I’m hearing the podcast now. We are to the point where Alex Jones is ready for involuntary psychiatric treatment or we are all in deep shit. Unfortunately, the latter is looking more plausible. Just before this, I was listening to Bstchelor talking to a guest who is writing “Trump, the Opera”
Feeding in to my opinion is that my uncle (mother’s brother) worked for a three letter government agency in Laos and Vietnam during the war and retired to a big house in Austin (!). I only met him a couple times. Most of his children were completely screwed up – one became a playboy bunny and vanished, another wound up in North Dakota teaching primal scream therapy.
My (deceased) sister went through an occult phase as a teenager, influenced by the Miller family next door – their dad was a deacon at the Presbyterian church. At one point she had a Ouija board, a secret magic box and wore scarfs that I associate with gypsies. She dropped a couple hints over the years implying that she had Wicca friends. I didn’t pursue it – I didn’t want to know.
Remember that “Rules for Radicals” was dedicated to Lucifer
Yeah OK, I am glad I wasn’t the only one that thought that. he was so bad I couldn’t focus at work. I had to turn it off.
Alex says he is all in, he’s going 52 hours for his gang doing live broadcast starting today I believe. straight through the election.
Sometimes they wind me up to much. I have to go outside and work on my Jeep or watch Blue Jays plant acorns and hickory nuts in the yard. ( Like they are going to remember where they put the damn thing)
Jones drove me crazy Friday
parrott
Brazil nut trees depend on rodents burying the seeds and forgetting about them. That works until the humans take all the seeds and the rodents die of starvation