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Other radio ads that bug me (continuing on):

The Chris and Marie ads. Not because of Chris and Marie - them I can tune out - but that bloody crow sound effect. There in the background, at regular intervals - "kwaaaaark kwaaark kwaaaah". For some reason I can't tune it out and it drives me nuts.

Frank Walker: where the hell is his accent from?!?! And what wierd syntax. ("Whether you're buildingahome.... orrenovatingaroomonabudget....") Still, fun to parody in the car while driving home.

Those really, really, really badly voiced Maccas ads. Next time hire someone who can do different accents and a decent scriptwriter. Better yet, don't advertise on radio. Or anywhere. Or die already.

Anything trying to use sex to sell. Especially the AmbiPurr ads. *shudder* So feminism totally missed you as a concept then? Sex on radio... for some reason doesn't work. Something visual missing perhaps?

That boost juice ad. I'm sorry, I don't want to hear an enema on radio while driving in to work. No, really, I don't. Don't want to hear it on the way home either. Aren't going to buy your product. Which fuckwit thought that was a good idea? Totally gross.

The "advertising on radio is good"! ads. No, stop it. I hate you all and I want you to go away.

Having said that I don't actually mind live read ads, which at least have the benefit of stuffing up at times. Much more entertaining. As long as you know they're live read - but then again who listens to Alan Jones or that other fuckwit anyway? ;-)

I really need to get a CD player in my car...

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[epideme.livejournal.com]

Australian[1] Radio ads have driven me to listen to 774 (ABC) for most of the time.

Frank Walker (he of the tiles?) seems to be always the first ad off the block and works very well as a reminder to change the station. Ditto chris and Marie. These are ads so annoying, that they penetrate the brain enough to do something about it.

In the UK, I could avoid ads 90% of the time by just changing station. It doesn't work as well here, as the ads seem to come on at roughly the same time past the hour.

[1] Distingished from UK Radio ads by the sheer quantity, not quality.

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I tend to argue with 774, although I still try to catch their half hour of news in the morning. Mostly what I want is something I can sing along to while driving, that also has half-decent traffic reports. 774 unfortunately I can't sing to. Not that that's stopped me in the past.

If I ever have enough money to buy a commercial FM license I'm going for a totally music format with traffic and maybe some half-decent news not scavved off the Herald-Sun. There are too many people trying to be funny on radio at the moment and they're all pissing me off. Apparently Melbourne commuters are a very fickle bunch - we don't stick with one station. That'd be us avoiding the ads then. Or getting annoyed with the presenters. Or both.

I used to listen to JJJ, but they don't have traffic and unfortunately traffic has become an important factor in my radio listening.

Frank Walker (he of the tiles?)

Oh yeah. The Bargain tiles. Hul-lo!

Given that my car radio appears to be on the way out though this could all be a bit moot really. I really liked the feature in the rental car in the states where you could scan until you found something. I'd just have the radio on scan until news/traffic/good songs came up. :-)

[epideme.livejournal.com]

I really liked the feature in the rental car in the states where you could scan until you found something.

ahhh good old RDS radio. Beats me why radio stations don't use that here. All car radios sold in modern cars seem to have the feature.

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Come to Hobart - no traffic AND JJJ. And as an added bonus for this month only, JJJ give Tassie its own time calls so we feel extra special!

[numbat.livejournal.com]

It amuses me that commercial radio stations feel the need to play the 'advertising on radio is good' ads. Do they really think it will net them more business? Don't they realise it just makes them sound desperate instead? Good thing I don't hear them too often, listening to the ABC as I mostly do.