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39-624: E:Awaz airs as a brokered multicultural radio format targeted primarily at the Pakistani Canadian and Punjabi Canadian community in Greater Toronto Area and Niagara Peninsula in Canada. The station's programming is primarily in Punjabi and Urdu . Some programs are aimed at Sikhs and other religious and ethnic groups from South Asia. Birach Broadcasting maintains nominal ownership of

78-515: A brokered arrangement, as was the case with KRLD gardening expert Neil Sperry before his show was canceled outright in 2010. Program time is often brokered to churches on Sunday mornings in a manner that parallels televangelism ; there are also religious stations that rely primarily on brokered programs, and these stations often get the derisive title of "pay for pray," a play on the unethical practice of " pay for play " on music stations. There are also some AM radio stations that are dedicated to

117-606: A deal that pays rights fees or a barter agreement. Examples include the last years of the Professional Bowlers Tour , Major League Baseball 's short-lived The Baseball Network venture in the mid-1990s, professional football leagues such as the United Football League and Alliance of American Football , and motorsports events produced and sponsored by Lucas Oil . In the case of professional football, brokered programming has typically not been feasible in

156-660: A fee to stations with very large Arbitron -verified listenership , the same syndicator will normally charge a fee to small stations and may charge nothing to stations with moderate listenership. Each arrangement depends on whether the station can deliver enough listeners to allow the syndicator to earn money from ad sales. Syndicated programs normally carry a number of their own advertisements that must be played during commercial breaks, but set aside time for local stations to play their own advertisements. Stations also frequently employ one or more of their own hosts, but at some small stations these hosts may be unpaid volunteers motivated by

195-507: A friendship with Burton over the years as a frequent competitor on PBT telecasts. In 2008, Bo served alongside Bill Macatee and Lynn Swann for the Bowling's Clash of Champions , a contest that pitted men against women. In this event, broadcast on CBS , a historic first time that a woman ever beat a man in a TV final occurred in the $ 50,000 title match, when Lynda Barnes , wife of professional bowler Chris Barnes , defeated Sean Rash to take

234-591: A landline phone and a largely unused but official "main studio" are located at the transmitter site. The WTOR call sign refers to TOR onto, the target city. The call letters previously belonged to a station in Torrington, Connecticut which now uses the call sign WSNG . This article about a radio station in New York is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Brokered programming Brokered programming (also known as time-buy and blocktime )

273-552: A major television event) in the ratings. Many sports fans considered it a weekly tradition to watch bowling on Saturday afternoons, which was a lead-in to ABC's Wide World of Sports . The series generally aired in the winter and spring as other networks later covered the summer and fall portions of the PBA Tour. In the 1990s, ABC also made stops in the summer events. On the telecasts, Burton would host taped segments in which he would give tips or interesting facts about bowling. Although

312-432: A memorable 299 in the 1970 Tournament of Champions . He needed a strike on his final ball, but left a 10-pin. The curse was finally broken in 1987; with both Schenkel and Burton in the broadcast booth, Pete McCordic rolled a 300 game against Wayne Webb . Immediately after the final strike, Schenkel yelled, "We have it! We have it!" As his career progressed, he began covering bowling almost exclusively and thus saw most of

351-420: A set number of match-play games were bowled, and bonus pins were given to the winner of each match. The champion was then decided based on the final overall total pinfall. From 1962 to 1965, ABC started televising the PBA Tour, starting with a limited number of tournaments on ABC's Wide World of Sports , and later having its own timeslot. Therefore, a round-robin tournament format was implemented to determine

390-536: A short-form series that had been airing on the network since 1960). The first Saturday afternoon telecast was the 1962 Empire State Open held at Redwood Lanes in Albany, New York , and was won by Fred Lening, 254–243, over J. Willard Sims. Chris Schenkel and Jack Buck called the action at that particular telecast. Throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, Pro Bowlers Tour typically outdrew college football (then stifled by NCAA restrictions) and college basketball (still not

429-557: Is a form of broadcast content in which the show's producer pays a radio or television station for air time, rather than exchanging programming for pay or the opportunity to play spot commercials. A brokered program is typically not capable of garnering enough support from advertisements to pay for itself, and may be controversial, esoteric or an advertisement in itself. Common examples are religious and political programs and talk-show-format programs similar to infomercial on television. Others are hobby programs or vanity programs paid for by

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468-550: Is most common on talk radio stations and used to fill non- prime time slots and to augment income from spot-advertisement sales during normal programs. Most of these programs feature a disclaimer at either the beginning or the end of the program (or both), usually read by the program's host or (most often) by a separate announcer; some radio stations play a standard disclaimer before all such programs. Certain mainstream sports and entertainment broadcasts may resort to buying brokered airtime to air on television if they cannot secure

507-478: The U.S. and Canada. However, in the case of television stations, LMA's do not count towards caps in the U.S. Professional Bowlers Tour The Professional Bowlers Tour , also known as Pro Bowlers Tour , is a broadcast of the Professional Bowlers Association that aired on ABC from 1962 to 1997 . In the telecasts, sportscaster Chris Schenkel and the graphics displayed during

546-590: The brokered format, selling time for as little as 15 minutes or even selling the entire broadcasting day to a single entity, with the station holding the broadcast license and providing the facilities. That long-form type of brokered programming is especially popular among ethnic and religious broadcasters as well as with privately owned U.S.-based shortwave radio broadcasters. Brokered programs are not exclusive to talk radio; music radio programs can also be brokered. The brokered format, popular among specialty and niche music formats (e.g. polka music ), usually involves

585-461: The champion. The televised finals would be cut to the top four bowlers after match-play, and then three round-robin matches between the fourth, third and second-seeded bowlers would determine the final two bowlers. If any bowler were to win both of his matches in the round-robin, he would go on to face the tournament leader. If the three bowlers each split their matches to go 1 and 1 in the round-robin, total pinfall would decide which man would advance to

624-865: The chance to promote an agenda, gain personal exposure or get work experience. The use of brokered programming varies by station -- some stations, mainly news radio and sports radio stations, use brokered programming to fill holes in some dayparts, especially during the late-night hours and weekends. The format of brokered programs varies; many sports radio stations will use brokered programs from sports handicappers and prognosticators to fit their format, while news and talk radio stations will often rely on brokered programs that sell vitamin or nutritional supplements, financial planning products and services, and alternative medical products, fitting those stations' older audiences. Sometimes, even programs dealing with gardening and home improvement (usually presented on weekend mornings on many talk radio stations) are broadcast under

663-484: The end of an era of bowling on network television due to declining ratings, although CBS aired a few events during the 1998 and 1999 seasons. Fox Sports Net aired some bowling telecasts in 2000, and ESPN took over from there. Footage of the series' final broadcast in 1997 is featured in the 2006 DVD documentary A League of Ordinary Gentlemen . A member of the Weber family threw the first (Dick) and last (Pete) balls on

702-443: The final match to face the tournament leader. The winner of the final match would win the tournament. The first-ever telecast was actually taped and aired at a later date. The original commentators were Chris Schenkel and then-active bowling star Billy Welu . On May 16, 1974 Welu died suddenly of a heart attack . For the remainder of the 1974 season, bowling legends Dick Weber and Dave Davis filled Welu's analyst spot, but it

741-608: The final match to take home a PBA-record $ 250,000 first prize. In March 2018, the PBA announced a multi-year agreement with Fox Sports to begin in 2019 and carry through at least the end of the 2022 season. Most events have been carried on Fox Sports 1 , but the deal has provisions to carry some events on the Fox broadcast network. On some broadcasts, either Schenkel or Burton were on assignment so other commentators filled in. Mike Aulby and John Mazza , among other pros who were not competing on

780-529: The history of the Pro Bowlers Tour on ABC. The second match of the telecast nearly ended in a perfect game as Mika Koivuniemi defeated Tom Daugherty 299–100. Daugherty broke the old record for the lowest game in PBA History of 129, previously held by Steve Jaros. The match was also the largest differential in PBA history, with a spread of 199 pins. Koivuniemi went on to defeat top seed Tom Smallwood in

819-660: The host and/or their supporters, and may be intended to promote the host's personality, for instance in preparation for a political campaign, or to promote a product, service or business that the host is closely associated with. A live vanity show may be carried on several stations by remote broadcast or simulcast , with the producer paying multiple stations an airtime fee. Financial advisors and planners often produce this kind of programming. Brokered commercial programs promote products or services by scripting shows made to sound similar to talk radio or news programming, and may even include calls from actual listeners (or actors playing

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858-423: The jobs instead. Bo Burton has been the analyst on several bowling telecasts since his days on PBT . He analyzed PBA events for ESPN during the 1998 season. He also did color commentary for the 1998 Women's College Bowling Championship on ESPN2 , which included future PBA member Kelly Kulick . Bo also called the 2007 and 2008 U.S. Women's Open events on ESPN alongside Marshall Holman , who developed somewhat of

897-457: The lack of any one bowling star to follow, and an aging audience for televised bowling. (Research in 1997 showed that 67% of the viewing audience for network TV bowling was at least 50 years old.) Former PBA Commissioner Mark Gerberich, who presided over the PBA in the 1990s, summed up the decline in ABC viewership and related licensing contracts, stating, "In 1991, we got $ 200,000 a show which went into

936-433: The long term, as the sport requires rights fees to make it viable; leagues that have relied on brokering television time have collapsed in short order due to financial losses. Regional sports networks also pad their non-play-by-play schedule with brokered shows catering to niches like high school sports , poker , and all-terrain vehicles . Some packages of high school football and basketball games are brokered more with

975-468: The part of listeners). The programs are a specific type of infomercial, as they focus on a topic related to the product and repeatedly steer listeners and "callers" to a particular website and/or toll-free telephone number in order to purchase the product being featured. Although presented in the style of live programs, these are typically pre-recorded and supplied to stations on tape, disc, or digital downloadable formats, such as MP3 files. Such programming

1014-537: The playing of the song, as it is paid for, cannot be applied to song popularity charts, as has happened in the early 2000s with some forms of this concept. Oftentimes broadcasters will seek the help of an ad agency to secure a brokered radio show. Agencies such as I Buy Time in Dallas, Texas or Bayliss Media Group in Los Angeles, California have the knowledge on how to negotiate a lower per-hour rate than what may be quoted by

1053-413: The potential to be inserted onto a station's general playlist but has not received the traction to do so. These spots are often the length of the song with an introduction and disclaimer at the end of the song stating the artist, album title, and releasing label, and come under titles such as CD Preview . The segments must be carefully disclaimed by the record companies so as to not violate payola laws and

1092-512: The prize funds. A year later, we got $ 50,000. In 1997, we were paying $ 150,000 to stay on TV ." The final PBT broadcast aired on June 21, 1997 at the St. Clair Classic in Fairview Heights, Ill. that was won by Walter Ray Williams Jr. It was a very emotional broadcast in which Williams Jr. and Pete Weber , the game's two giants at the time, battled it out until the very end. It essentially marked

1131-418: The radio station to the individual broadcaster. If a station sells all of its time to a programmer, essentially leasing the station, it is a local marketing agreement (LMA). Like owning a station, this counts toward United States Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) caps that prevent excessive concentration of media ownership in

1170-430: The series maintained high ratings throughout most of its years, ABC (which was transitioning to new management after being purchased by The Walt Disney Company in 1996) opted against renewing its contract with the PBA, primarily due to the overall decline of bowling's popularity in the late 1980s and 1990s. This was partially attributed to the explosion of sports viewing choices in the 1990s, especially on cable television,

1209-504: The series, demonstrating how both the father and son each dominated their own eras of the sport. It was reported in newspapers that Chris Schenkel did not intend to retire after the series ended, even though he was in his seventies by 1997, as he wanted to earn more money to pay for his grandchildren to go to college. When CBS picked up the PBA Tour in 1998, there was talk of Schenkel moving to that network, but it never materialized. Gary Seibel (play-by-play) and Marshall Holman (color) got

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1248-409: The show itself lining up its own advertising and paying the station for its airtime. The idea reduces the risk for the station and assures the show remains on the air as long as the show's producers continue to pay the station's airtime fee. Record companies (through independent promoters) may also purchase brokered time on music stations to have the station play a new single as a "preview", which has

1287-498: The show would refer to the show as "The Professional Bowlers Tour", possibly to disambiguate from the NFL's use of the term "pro bowler" when referring to players who were selected for the Pro Bowl —an event also televised on ABC for many years. Prior to the debut of the PBA on ABC television in 1962, most tournaments were organized where, once the cut was established after qualifying rounds,

1326-408: The specific purposes of college recruiting and future name, image, and likeness deals in mind rather than the actual team matchup, which is mainly prevalent with nationally-ranked high school athletic powers that do not play traditional local schedules against local opponents and highlight certain heavily-recruited players. Although some syndicators of multi-topic, ad-supported talk shows may pay

1365-550: The station to meet FCC regulations that prohibit foreign nationals from owning controlling stakes in U.S. radio licenses. WTOR is a daytime-only station, signing off at sunset to protect 50,000- watt Class A clear-channel station WABC in New York City . WTOR's 13,000-watt directional signal is aimed almost completely into the province of Ontario. The transmitter is located off Langdon Road in Ransomville, New York , and

1404-406: The telecasts, served as a lane-level reporters for PBT and would interview bowlers competing on the show. It became somewhat of a running gag about how Schenkel was absent during some of the memorable moments of the series. He was not in the booth for the PBA's first-ever televised 300 game , rolled by Jack Biondolillo at the 1967 Tournament of Champions , due to a broadcast union strike. He

1443-455: The title. The PBA, through its renewed contract with ESPN, returned to ABC for the first time in over thirteen years, as it televised the 2011 Tournament of Champions from Red Rock Lanes in Las Vegas . The event took place on January 22, 2011 in a live telecast, with Rob Stone and Randy Pedersen on the call, and Nelson Burton, Jr. joining them throughout the telecast with reflections on

1482-441: Was out on assignment covering other events for the network during each of the next two televised 300 games ( Johnny Guenther in 1969 and Jim Stefanich 1974) and he also missed the first televised 7–10 split conversion as done by Mark Roth in 1980. Some even considered it to be a "curse" that if Schenkel was covering bowling, the bowlers would not throw a perfect game. This appeared to have some merit to it when Don Johnson rolled

1521-475: Was the young Nelson Burton Jr. who was ultimately selected for the full-time analyst job in 1975. With Burton Jr. still an active player, Weber or Davis would fill in as analyst for tournaments where Nelson made the televised finals. Burton Jr. remained Schenkel's broadcasting partner until the end of the series. Bowling became extremely popular after ABC began airing it on Saturday afternoons in 1962 (it had previously dabbled in bowling with Make That Spare ,

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