View Full Version : Sirius is Ruining our show!
GrandUnion
03-05-2009, 02:39 AM
Why has nobody commented on this??? Ronnie has to break every 30 minutes and we get to hear a live read every 30 minutes. This is just getting ridiculous. BBBBB
It's actually a choice by Ron and Fez, they're trying a more traditional terrestrial pacing to see if it makes Fez more comfortable and able to be a bigger part of the show.
And how is it ruining the show? They take a 2 minute break, it's not like they're talking for 30 minutes and then taking a 10 minute commercial break. And Ron does a live read like no body else.
Why has nobody commented on this??? Ronnie has to break every 30 minutes and we get to hear a live read every 30 minutes. This is just getting ridiculous. BBBBB
I would have to agree and I get the feeling that Ron isn't too happy about it. The show still times out at approximately 2 hours 38 minutes without commercials, but the frequent breaks stop the flow.
Thanks a lot Mel.
Don Stugots
03-05-2009, 03:03 AM
I agree with Hosp. I like the pacing. Its not like trying to listen to WFAN in the afternoon, 8 min break, update, 5 mins of talk, break.
Just relax a bit, change is good sometimes. More Fez=more gooder show.
Reynolds
03-05-2009, 03:25 AM
Sounded like its just a new change in format Fez wants to try. I'm sure if they really get going into conversation, nobody will force them into commercial. Company's in deep shit, no commercials could mean no show at all, so I'll deal with it for now...
I listen to it recorded on my Inno anyway, so I couldn't give a shit either way.
DonInNC
03-05-2009, 03:27 AM
The live reads are great. Ron's struggle to stay true to himself while doing what the corporation forces him to do is something I completely identify with. Plus they're hilarious.
boobieman
03-05-2009, 03:31 AM
I hate the breaks and live reads. I just knew with sirius taking over MEL would commericalize the hell out of every fuckin thing. Just wait a few months from now..commericals on the music channels. And the jump from what everyone is talking about to Fez's live read for cabonite or Ashley madison it just sucks.
i think it is only going to get worst...eventually every commerical will be for liberty insurance or what ever the company that stopped the crash.
SEEYAYAYAYAA
oh_kee_pa
03-05-2009, 03:33 AM
wow...
how much debt is the company in? what is the future of terrestrial radio?
shut up people... if they take a break every 30 minutes they take a break... if this is the worst thing that happens to you in the day you live a great fucking life
boobieman
03-05-2009, 03:37 AM
wow...
how much debt is the company in? what is the future of terrestrial radio?
shut up people... if they take a break every 30 minutes they take a break... if this is the worst thing that happens to you in the day you live a great fucking life
Dude...we are just pointing things out..believe me....I am going on with my day and I am not bad mouthing the show..it's the company....and with the breaks I have jacking time during the show.
SEEYAYAYYAAAA
DukeFett
03-05-2009, 03:46 AM
I don't mind the short breaks, but what I liked about the long breaks was that I know I could go and take a piss or something and not miss anything, now they're back before I know it.
The one thing I don't really like at all is the opening, I'm assuming that was not their choice. I don't really see the need for a proper opening, at least on satellite, it's not like A)They don't say eachother's names a dozen times every minute, and B)It's spelled out right on the frigging radio what you're listening to at all times.
WampusCrandle
03-05-2009, 04:04 AM
its obvious that Ron doesn't care for the breaks, and that's why he mocks them as Fez reads them. we have to come to terms with them reading it, just like Ron has, so we might as well have fun with it, like i am.
underdog
03-05-2009, 04:51 AM
The one thing I don't really like at all is the opening, I'm assuming that was not their choice. I don't really see the need for a proper opening, at least on satellite, it's not like A)They don't say eachother's names a dozen times every minute, and B)It's spelled out right on the frigging radio what you're listening to at all times.
What opening?
If anyone thinks Ron and Fez take too many breaks, listen to the Opie and Anthony show. Then you'll realize how lucky we are. Also, isn't it the listeners' fault they started taking more breaks anyway? Remember, people called in to complain that the show "ended too early" because they'd do shows with no breaks.
Kublakhan61
03-05-2009, 05:07 AM
What opening?
The one before the movie clip and song play. I hear it on audible - does it not play on XM?
underdog
03-05-2009, 05:11 AM
The one before the movie clip and song play. I hear it on audible - does it not play on XM?
I've never noticed it. Maybe it is there, though.
The one before the movie clip and song play. I hear it on audible - does it not play on XM?
Yes it does.
IMSlacker
03-05-2009, 05:18 AM
I've never noticed it. Maybe it is there, though.
It plays before their normal opening. Kind of like the O&A opening, clips from the show and sound effects and stuff. They've only started playing it this week I think.
Freitag
03-05-2009, 05:22 AM
With the state of SiriusXM's finances, live reads and breaks are an unfortunate must.
Comparitively speaking, look how many breaks they had to take when on WNEW, WJFK, or K-Rock. The breaks that R&F take compared to then are minimal at best.
I personally don't mind. When I first went nuts about the AshMad reads, I said that I would be perfectly OK if they were done in the style of the old I-57 reads. They did, and everything is cool.
Don Stugots
03-05-2009, 05:24 AM
I am glad they listened to you.
aceofspades7
03-05-2009, 05:30 AM
I don't mind the change at all
With the state of SiriusXM's finances, live reads and breaks are an unfortunate must.
Comparitively speaking, look how many breaks they had to take when on WNEW, WJFK, or K-Rock. The breaks that R&F take compared to then are minimal at best.
The breaks at WJFK weren't that many, but they were painfully long. Out of a four hour show, at least 1 hour of that was devoted to commercials.
underdog
03-05-2009, 05:48 AM
I personally don't mind. When I first went nuts about the AshMad reads, I said that I would be perfectly OK if they were done in the style of the old I-57 reads. They did, and everything is cool.
Oh, thank goodness. Ron and Fez will be relieved to know they have your approval.
pittphantoms
03-05-2009, 05:56 AM
The only thing I dont like is when Ron is really killing a topic - and they have to interupt with a live read... I like the show lasting a little longer and I dont mind the quick breaks - I just hate losing a good topic to porn.com
its obvious that Ron doesn't care for the breaks, and that's why he mocks them as Fez reads them. we have to come to terms with them reading it, just like Ron has, so we might as well have fun with it, like i am.
And, the mocking is absolutely amazing. I look forward to the AshleyMadison, porn.com, proflowers commercials. Ron took excrement and made lemonade... kudos.
It is a shame that these commercials have to eat away at time that could be better spent getting "86302 my buddies, Mooch picked another great song, I've got an ichiban for you, first time caller, long time listener, homo sez what?"
If you remove the preamble from every phone call, the shows would flow better. I can't blame Ronnie B for that.
Enabler
03-05-2009, 06:03 AM
If the live reads weren't funny I would be more annoyed, but they are. I still have a folder on my computer containing all the old I57 spots. Those reads were seriously the highlight of that FreeFM show. I cant think of any show ever that makes commercials entertaining.
ToiletCrusher
03-05-2009, 06:05 AM
Evolution is natural. Things change. Either accept it or don't but it isn't going to stop.
hammersavage
03-05-2009, 07:31 AM
There is 2 hours and 38/39 minutes of show every single day regardless of how many times they break. Don't be stupid, please.
hurlmon
03-05-2009, 10:11 AM
There is 2 hours and 38/39 minutes of show every single day regardless of how many times they break. Don't be stupid, please.
is this timing including the live reads?
Snoogans
03-05-2009, 10:13 AM
wow...
how much debt is the company in?
Eleventy billion dollars
ToiletCrusher
03-05-2009, 10:25 AM
Eleventy billion dollars
and 40 cents.
drusilla
03-05-2009, 11:00 AM
its obvious that Ron doesn't care for the breaks, and that's why he mocks them as Fez reads them. we have to come to terms with them reading it, just like Ron has, so we might as well have fun with it, like i am.
he seemed to have problems with it yesterday i think. he was in the middle of a rant & fez gestured that it was time for a break. it totally wrecked his train of thought.
Chimee
03-05-2009, 11:11 AM
There is 2 hours and 38/39 minutes of show every single day regardless of how many times they break. Don't be stupid, please.
I never cared about how much actual show there was, but when a good conversation gets interrupted because they have to shoehorn a live read in before going to break annoys me. If they had a great conversation with no breaks and the show ended at 2:30, I would have no problem with it.
Last week or the week before where Ron was going on about living life and right in the middle of it Fez goes into a read for Carbonite because they went too long without advertising something killed me. I was relaxed, feeling the conversation, doing some of that thinking about my own life and they just go into a live read like nothing had just happened. And I know that Ron and Fez don't try to make the reads feel like an extension of the conversation as, I'm sure, they're told to, but it doesn't make me like them any.
hammersavage
03-05-2009, 11:29 AM
They don't go into live reads unless the conversation is dying. A lot goes on behind the scenes. There could be no callers or no one on the staff has anything to add. They don't just do a live read in the middle of a topic that has legs.
STC-Dub
03-05-2009, 01:38 PM
How can you not like the live reads? They are hilarious.
Personally I think quite a few of the changes are good, the rundown they do at the end of OnA is great and the live reads are made great by ronnie, when they first started I was like this sucks and Im shocked he hasnt been told to stop.
Over all its a little better and will only get better once OnA get off CBS
WampusCrandle
03-05-2009, 02:02 PM
he seemed to have problems with it yesterday i think. he was in the middle of a rant & fez gestured that it was time for a break. it totally wrecked his train of thought.
oh, i didn't hear yesterday's show yet. im like 3-4 days behind everyone because i listen to audible
biggie
03-05-2009, 04:02 PM
Wasn't a big fan of the live reads at first but the carbonite live read today was the biggest laugh of show for me today. Whatever R&F decide is cool with me.
hurlmon
03-05-2009, 04:10 PM
How can you not like the live reads? They are hilarious.
Ron is great with them
West.Coast.Skippy
03-05-2009, 04:10 PM
hi grandunion, i just wanted to respond to let you know i agree with you, and also find it flabbergasting that there are not more negative comments on the forums about the live reads [advertising]. in fact some of the responses just to this thread are outside my comprehension. of course that could be saying something about me more than about the responses. and i think people shouldn't have to defend a little venting about a service or product they pay for. by the way, in an aftershow it was ron that proposed having a more formal intro to the opening.
scottinnj
03-05-2009, 04:12 PM
More Fez=more gooder show.
QFT
floridamike
03-05-2009, 04:29 PM
Wasn't a big fan of the live reads at first but the carbonite live read today was the biggest laugh of show for me today. Whatever R&F decide is cool with me.
I remember Mel coming on to the O&A show and showing his displeasure at them being on terrestial radio. It is interesting to see that they are taking a show we all love and monkeying with it to see how it sounds in a TR format. The show was perfect before and I'm sure we'll all get used to it in the new format...but c'mon. Have a plan and go with it.
Fez4PrezN2008
03-05-2009, 05:05 PM
I can deal with extra live reads if it helps keep the company going and by extension R&F. SIRI is really in the weeds! Plus Ron's humor has no bounds, I am sure he could make actuarial tables seem funny.
Greyer
03-05-2009, 05:08 PM
As someone who only started listening in October I am liking the new format of taking more breaks, with each being shorter. It breaks up conversation topics a little better I think. And I agree even though this started this week Fez seems more involved then he was around Turkey Day
Chimee
03-05-2009, 10:14 PM
Today's show completely turned me around. It was shorter segments, but they didn't drop what they were doing to go to a break and there weren't constant live reads. If shows were more like today's, I'd have no problem with whatever they're trying to do with it.
Mafialife Chris
03-05-2009, 10:27 PM
Doesnt really bother me. I never really understood why people get so bent out of shape over commercial advertising anyhows.
The product paid to get thier name out there, and Ron and Fez always make it fun to hear.
Either way, I am glad the company is making some capital.
Chimee
03-05-2009, 10:54 PM
I never really understood why people get so bent out of shape over commercial advertising anyhows.
Neither do Carbonite, MyVu, and whatever shit that they have to pretend to like.
By the way, Ronnie doing the Carbonite read today was the greatest live read ever.
Yosammity
03-06-2009, 01:31 AM
I wish they did the live reads at then beginning or the end of segments that way it wouldn't ruin the flow of the show.
FUCKTWATtheCLOWN
03-06-2009, 12:05 PM
I wish they did the live reads at then beginning or the end of segments that way it wouldn't ruin the flow of the show.
x2. I can tolerate them doing them, but they do kill the flow for me. Ron is great at making them funny, but after the 4th or 5th repetition of a product read, its old. I wish they would just keep them around the commercial breaks instead.
TheRumor
03-06-2009, 01:09 PM
Black Earl will be live tonight @ 9PM EST on TheAlexShow. He will be taking live questions by chat and Skype about why he quit, and why he wanted to sell the RBI. Live at: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-alex-radio-show
live reads are one of my faviorite parts of the show thanks to ronny b...disregard to his family and wanting to kill himself cuz he didnt have that computer thing..classic stuff my man..cheer up!
Chimee
03-06-2009, 01:57 PM
Black Earl will be live tonight @ 9PM EST on TheAlexShow. He will be taking live questions by chat and Skype about why he quit, and why he wanted to sell the RBI. Live at: http://www.ustream.tv/channel/the-alex-radio-show
Are you trying to do the live read thing without the radio show part?
Hepcat22
03-06-2009, 02:28 PM
We just got spoiled having Ron go for over an hour on the first segments. I swear I can't stand to listen to syndicated talk shows like Boortz, Hannity, etc with the constant breaks. It's bad enough with O & A.
But as someone mentioned above the Inno is the king of spot killers. We were at the beach all week and I would set the little Inno to record Ron & Fez from Noon to three each day then listen at night on earphones. And when the commercials start I can zip through each one and be at the next 39 minute segment - shows right up at the bottom of the little screen.
Freakshow
03-06-2009, 03:43 PM
I believe it was wednesday on the post show, it was the first thing they mentioned. They said the more frequent breaks were keeping Fez more involved and they would continue to do it that way. It was unanimous that it was better that way.
IT'S TO KEEP FEZ MORE INVOLVED--IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SIRIUS OR MEL. Feel better about yourselves now?
Chimee
03-06-2009, 04:02 PM
I believe it was wednesday on the post show, it was the first thing they mentioned. They said the more frequent breaks were keeping Fez more involved and they would continue to do it that way. It was unanimous that it was better that way.
IT'S TO KEEP FEZ MORE INVOLVED--IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH SIRIUS OR MEL. Feel better about yourselves now?
And I'm sure plugging things corporate tells you to plug so many times during the show is for Fez's benefit as well?
CofyCrakCocaine
03-06-2009, 05:03 PM
Who started this thread? If I'm not already your friend, I hope someone takes your whiny ass and cleans it with gravel wipes. The very crybaby nature of the title to this thread is annoying.
I like the live reads, and I don't think it's done anything bad to Ron or 0Fez. Just because your bumpkin ADHD addled asses cannot handle a show having commercials, doesn't meant it's actually bad.
First person to disagree with me hopefully gets stuck in an oven by Ernest Borgnine.
Chimee
03-06-2009, 05:07 PM
Who started this thread? If I'm not already your friend, I hope someone takes your whiny ass and cleans it with gravel wipes. The very crybaby nature of the title to this thread is annoying.
I like the live reads, and I don't think it's done anything bad to Ron or 0Fez. Just because your bumpkin ADHD addled asses cannot handle a show having commercials, doesn't meant it's actually bad.
First person to disagree with me hopefully gets stuck in an oven by Ernest Borgnine.
Wouldn't someone with ADHD like the constant commercials?
CofyCrakCocaine
03-06-2009, 05:12 PM
Wouldn't someone with ADHD like the constant commercials?
No, because they'd lose their focus on whatever R&F were talking about, and then zone out for 15 minutes then come into it with no idea what was talked about
Unless they hated the show and couldn't wait for it to end...
Freakshow
03-06-2009, 05:24 PM
And I'm sure plugging things corporate tells you to plug so many times during the show is for Fez's benefit as well?
i'm sure they get paid per plug, so yes it benefits him for sure.
jlehane3
03-06-2009, 06:56 PM
above 3 posts ^ I went there and it was a hoax when I could have listened to 3 other shows.In one hour Earl was not on.My apologies if he actually did come on Later but I left 10:02 feeling scammed. Sorry I plugged their show on PalTalk,like a helpful obedient douche.Chimp or Chump.
Chimee
03-06-2009, 07:03 PM
above 3 posts ^ I went there and it was a hoax when I could have listened to 3 other shows.In one hour Earl was not on.My apologies if he actually did come on Later but I left 10:02 feeling scammed. Sorry I plugged their show on PalTalk,like a helpful obedient douche.Chimp or Chump.
I'd go with rube. You should learn to never click anything on the Internet, it's lies and gay porn.
nocountryjon1
03-06-2009, 07:07 PM
Who started this thread? If I'm not already your friend, I hope someone takes your whiny ass and cleans it with gravel wipes. The very crybaby nature of the title to this thread is annoying.
I like the live reads, and I don't think it's done anything bad to Ron or 0Fez. Just because your bumpkin ADHD addled asses cannot handle a show having commercials, doesn't meant it's actually bad.
First person to disagree with me hopefully gets stuck in an oven by Ernest Borgnine.
your totally right what a douche
Boomer
03-06-2009, 07:27 PM
You want douchey...
Wasn't it just a few months ago that people were bitching that they ran on and on without taking commercial breaks! Now you fucker's are bitching that they take them too often.
They do the same amount of show each day so it gets cut up and put in the replay. If they take no breaks they have to end the show early, if they take a bunch of short ones, they can go until almost 3. It's still the same amount of show so shut the fuck up.
Your all just fucking poof that everyone bitches about everything on the internet. Just like I'm bitching about you fuckers...and soon some fucker will bitch about me...
fuckety fuck fuck! :furious:
jlehane3
03-06-2009, 07:33 PM
Yes Fez is making great progress this year and attacking those ads with vim an vigor,fervor and Pinnash .He slings a mean live read,with less freeze-ups because he's using CARBONITE ! Who knows,if it's good for everyone on the show,maybe more WINKY but no DRINKY Fridays may keep the place sane.Pre-recording the shows for Friday seems like the best way to make Ron happy.There's no getting around Mondays because people expect a fresh show after the weekend. :bye: I'm normal cause UM frUm DULLaware.
MC Pee Pants
03-06-2009, 08:41 PM
We have a show?
Marc with a c
03-06-2009, 10:29 PM
ron gets thirty dollars for every live read and sixty bucks every break. fuck him.
TripleSkeet
03-06-2009, 10:57 PM
Doesnt really bother me. I never really understood why people get so bent out of shape over commercial advertising anyhows.
Believe me, nobody is shocked to hear this coming from you. LOL
Seriously though, youd have to be retarded to not love those live reads. They are some of the funniest shit Ive ever heard. Leave it to Ron to turn that shit into gold.
I think hes as surprised as alot of people that they still let him read them after all the shit he says.
My favorite are the AshleyMadison ones but the Carbonite ones are hilarious too.
Carboniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite......itll stop raciiiism.
jimmyolsenblues
03-11-2009, 11:10 AM
sirius needs the advertising or else they will go bankrupt...there is not enough subscribers to pay howie's salary.....
xm got screwed !!!!!!
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