

{"id":9939,"date":"2014-03-17T23:01:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-18T03:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=9939"},"modified":"2014-03-18T10:12:18","modified_gmt":"2014-03-18T14:12:18","slug":"kevin-trudeau-headed-to-federal-prison-for-10-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=9939","title":{"rendered":"Kevin Trudeau headed to Federal prison for 10 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re probably familiar from him on TV, but he has also had smarmy infomercials on radio for a number of years.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/brown\/26278044-452\/tv-pitchman-trudeu-finds-he-cant-talk-his-way-out-of-prison-term.html<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/radio-show.php?showid=8312<\/p>\n<p>The link to his web site is abandoned &#8211; don&#8217;t follow it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>He is just one in a long line of people trying to buy credibility by advertising on radio.   The long term effect of radio not policing its sales ethics means at this point, radio has almost no credibility left to buy &#8211; especially on Saturday and Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s beginning to sink into the brains running big radio that selling weekend time for infomercials causes long term damage to weekday ratings.  Who could have seen that coming?<\/p>\n<p>WABC-AM&#8217;s ratings in New York were released today (without Rush and Hannity) and puts it just .1% above WPAT-AM, a 5000 watt station in Paterson New Jersey broadcasting in Spanish.  WABC finished behind WNYC-FM, the public radio station carrying NPR.  The fat lady is singing.  If you think Conservative talk radio is going to influence anything in 2014 elections, you&#8217;re delusional at this point.<\/p>\n<p>Since adding Rush Limbaugh and Hannity to WOR, WOR&#8217;s ratings are down and about half of WABC.   All News is up.  Savage&#8217;s ratings here are 3x Hannity and pulled ahead of Beck last week (Beck was on vacation)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re probably familiar from him on TV, but he has also had smarmy infomercials on radio for a number of years. http:\/\/www.suntimes.com\/news\/brown\/26278044-452\/tv-pitchman-trudeu-finds-he-cant-talk-his-way-out-of-prison-term.html http:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/radio-show.php?showid=8312 The link to his web site is abandoned &#8211; don&#8217;t follow it&#8230; He is just one in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/?p=9939\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[108,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collapse-of-america","category-radio-biz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9939"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9948,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9939\/revisions\/9948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/streamingradioguide.com\/startingover\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}