{"id":477,"date":"2015-08-24T15:30:30","date_gmt":"2015-08-24T15:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/splatonline.com\/blog\/?p=477"},"modified":"2024-08-13T17:06:47","modified_gmt":"2024-08-13T21:06:47","slug":"a-commercial-about-being-commercial-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/splatonlinenew.showmyproject.net\/blog\/a-commercial-about-being-commercial-free\/","title":{"rendered":"A Commercial about being &#8220;commercial free!&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_197\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-197\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/splatonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/megaman+splat2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-197\" src=\"https:\/\/splatonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/megaman+splat2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Splatman! has something to say.\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/splatonlinenew.showmyproject.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/megaman+splat2-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/splatonlinenew.showmyproject.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/megaman+splat2.jpg 192w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-197\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Splatman! speaks.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In radio, we all know there is a big difference between a &#8220;promo&#8221; and a &#8220;commercial.&#8221;\u00a0 While a radio promo is heard by many listeners to be a &#8220;commercial for the radio station,&#8221; radio people see this differently:<\/p>\n<p>Commercial = Paid Advertiser Announcement<\/p>\n<p>Promo = Some highly produced or prerecorded announcement about the radio station, either serious, fun or both.<\/p>\n<p>Either way, we really do appreciate the irony of a &#8220;commercial&#8221; announcing that we are &#8220;not playing commercials.&#8221;<\/p>\n<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-477-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/splatonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/splat-sample-commerical-free-rock.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/splatonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/splat-sample-commerical-free-rock.mp3\">https:\/\/splatonline.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/splat-sample-commerical-free-rock.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In radio, we all know there is a big difference between a &#8220;promo&#8221; and a &#8220;commercial.&#8221;\u00a0 While a radio promo is heard by many listeners to be a &#8220;commercial for the radio station,&#8221; radio people see this differently: Commercial = Paid Advertiser Announcement Promo = Some highly produced or prerecorded announcement about the radio station, <a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/splatonlinenew.showmyproject.net\/blog\/a-commercial-about-being-commercial-free\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-splat-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/splatonlinenew.showmyproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/splatonlinenew.showmyproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/splatonlinenew.showmyproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splatonlinenew.showmyproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splatonlinenew.showmyproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/splatonlinenew.showmyproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/splatonlinenew.showmyproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/splatonlinenew.showmyproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splatonlinenew.showmyproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/splatonlinenew.showmyproject.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}