Texts on Pre-recorded shows?

Ryan2me

Hi I'm just listening to the Hot Mix on 98FM* and Ezeke is plugging the textline asking for texts.

Is this even allowed? Because the show is clearly pre-recorded or voicetracked, there is no chance of your text being read out, even though you will still be charged 20 cent.

Thoughts?

Fresh Pots

Ryan2me wrote: »

Hi I'm just listening to the Hot Mix on 98FM* and Ezeke is plugging the textline asking for texts.

Is this even allowed? Because the show is clearly pre-recorded or voicetracked, there is no chance of your text being read out, even though you will still be charged 20 cent.

Thoughts?

Heard it last week and he was saying hello to so and so in someplace heading out for the night. Either this was just a made up text or maybe it is actually live?

Ryan2me

TheTechGuy wrote: »

Heard it last week and he was saying hello to so and so in someplace heading out for the night. Either this was just a made up text or maybe it is actually live?

If you look on their webcams ( clicked into it by mistake instead of listen live) there's no one in the studio. He lives in the UK I think, just syndicated throughout the world. I think iRadio do the same.
I think Ray Foley mentioned that some guy in Cork makes the mixes and Ezeke just does the links.

wnolan1992

Ryan2me wrote: »

Hi I'm just listening to the Hot Mix on 98FM* and Ezeke is plugging the textline asking for texts.

Is this even allowed? Because the show is clearly pre-recorded or voicetracked, there is no chance of your text being read out, even though you will still be charged 20 cent.

Thoughts?

Depends on context. If he's asking for people to text in to enter a competition then there's no issue as the winner can be contacted later. When NT were running Hook's Saturday Sit In they would frequently run text competitions during it.

If he's asking for requests, then that is a bit dodgy.

Ryan2me

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Depends on context. If he's asking for people to text in to enter a competition then there's no issue as the winner can be contacted later. When NT were running Hook's Saturday Sit In they would frequently run text competitions during it.

If he's asking for requests, then that is a bit dodgy.

He's basically saying " what are ya up to for the night let me know"

wnolan1992

Ryan2me wrote: »

He's basically saying " what are ya up to for the night let me know"

Well then if it is pre-recorded then that is very dodgy.

The last possibility is that he's doing links live from where ever he is. I don't really listen to that show so I'm not sure. If it's obviously a pre-record then there's something really wrong with asking people for texts IMO.

Ryan2me

wnolan1992 wrote: »

Well then if it is pre-recorded then that is very dodgy.

The last possibility is that he's doing links live from where ever he is. I don't really listen to that show so I'm not sure. If it's obviously a pre-record then there's something really wrong with asking people for texts IMO.

Looking on 98TV it doesn't look like there could be a live incoming feed. there's three slider thingy's up 2 for the music that are always up and one for the news so highly doubt it.

wnolan1992

Ryan2me wrote: »

Looking on 98TV it doesn't look like there could be a live incoming feed. there's three slider thingy's up 2 for the music that are always up and one for the news so highly doubt it.

That's some impressive sleuthing right there man.

Ryan2me

wnolan1992 wrote: »

That's some impressive sleuthing right there man.

why thank you :P.

could be reading out the texts that came in during last weeks show...

cue 98fm reading this and running into studio to turn off the cameras or bringing a cardboard cutout of Ezeke in or... getting an old Jamaican man into studio

touts

Rte frequently do/did it with the History Show. They ran segments Myles had recorded a few months earlier on the Today Show with Texts and all and no mention that it was pre-recorded. Realised it because they did one segment which was an interview with a man who had worked with Martin Luther King. I recognised the piece because of some interesting facts in it and later found on the Today Show podcast feed from about 6 weeks earlier. Never mentioned it was pre-recorded. Since then I assume most of these nighttime shows are pre-recorded and I certainly would not waste my money texting them.

TheLonelyOne

I actually thought it was against BAI regulations to advertise call/text lines during pre recorded shows?

Ryan2me

TheLonelyOne wrote: »

I actually thought it was against BAI regulations to advertise call/text lines during pre recorded shows?

I would assume it is

Radio is for life

Ryan2me wrote: »

I would assume it is

I would doubt its anything to do with the BAI but falls under Comregs remit. You can not charge a person for a text if there is no purpose to the text or no hope of monetary gain or possibility that it may be read out.

In saying that if you run "please don't call or text bla bla" it gives the game away, that the show is voice tracked. So what's the answer?

Ryan2me

Radio is for life wrote: »

I would doubt its anything to do with the BAI but falls under Comregs remit. You can not charge a person for a text if there is no purpose to the text or no hope of monetary gain or possibility that it may be read out.

In saying that if you run "please don't call or text bla bla" it gives the game away, that the show is voice tracked. So what's the answer?

just don't ask for participation i.e. don't ask for texts