This article pretty much sums up how I feel about commercial radio in general. Specifically…
Since the radio station doubtlessly realized that bowling shirts and football jerseys and zany expressions probably weren’t enough to cinch the deal, the billboard offered one final inducement to get people to tune into John and Frank. It featured a cartoon dog pointing a cartoon gun at our cartoon heroes and the words, “Listen — Or They Get It.”
I don’t think I need to explain to regular readers of TeeVee — folks who laugh at the failure of others and routinely call for the scalps of those whose lack of talent offends our sense of right and wrong — the folly of an ad campaign that ties an increased listening audience with sparing the lives of the drive-time Morning Zoo Crew. Because if all that’s standing between two wacky DJs and their murder at the hands of a ruthless dog assassin is me tuning in on a regular basis, then I’m sorry, fellas, but you’d best phone up your next of kin and make your peace with God.