The timing of the AC Show.

0  2014-08-02 by Ojisan1

I hope they change the time of the show. 4-6pm means no love for the west coast. It's a video-based show, why do it during "afternoon drive time" on the east coast? Do it during prime time, 8-10pm when people can watch a live video stream, and at least then on the west coast we have a chance of seeing the show.

As it stands, there's not much incentive to subscribe to a live show if you live on the west coast and have a job, or if you live on the east coast and have to commute home from work. For those people it will always be a taped show.

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Your title just gave me an idea. Ant needs to find himself a person with the initials HV and give him head billing so we can have the HVAC show. They'll talk about a variety of home improvements and demonstrate how to upgrade your existing duct work.

The diehard Maron fans here will eat it up, nice and soft radio for their heavy hearts. Gabless.

The Long Island Version of the Red Green Show.

"If the whores don't find you handsome, they should at least suck your dick."

Anthony and Adam Carolla could do this and call it AC / AC and use the AC / DC logo. Bonus, they could work on the ducts in a casino and call it AC / AC on AC from AC.

Lol, Carolla actually does this with his show Ace on the House. Him and his old flunky buddy Ray answer home improvement questions in between fucking with each other.

Having a large fan-base is overrated. That's why he hasn't been promoting on any recognizable podcasts and charging subscriptions with no free trial.

Making the show difficult to listen to live will further reduce the viewing audience, which appears to be the intended goal

Unless you want to call in, or there's a chat room you want to be in, then there's no point in watching live. Just watch it at 8, when you want.

(If the chat is anything like the Compound shows, it'll be pointless, it moved so fast with everyone trying to get Ant's attention and making lame show references, it was unreadable.)

Only logical response. I'm on west . I'll probably watch it in the evening recorded. Or throw the audio on my phone and listen to the next day. Who cares if I watched it live or not?

4-6 PM= Not stepping on Opie and Jim's or Ron & Fez's toes.

8-10pm = Also not stepping on anyone else's toes.

Except anyone who watches television.

TV is shit anyway, and people have DVRs. Primetime TV typically isn't live (unless you're a Big Brother fan.)

The AC Show is being billed as a live video stream. LFTC was always late night - 10pm or so. So even if we agree that 8pm competes with network programming, then move it to 10pm. But putting the show on from 4-6pm means that anyone commuting on the east coast, plus everyone on the west coast who has any kind of job at all, are guaranteed not to be watching a live show. When he's asking us to pay for the privilege of watching, that's something to consider.

TV may be shit but going up against prime time programming Monday through Thursday is just a losing proposition. Also, by 8pm and especially 10pm, I seriously doubt Ant could keep himself sober enough four days a week to put on a watchable or listenable show.

Eh, it's still just a podcast. The visual thing is a nice convenience every so often, but it's still closer to a radio show than The Daily Show.

Besides, you're not considering the option of watching it when it isn't live. I know why...you want to hear it live in case you want to call in right? Well, when do you ever sit in front of your tv in your big chair and slippers in the dark living room waiting on the phone.

The show's format is better suited to people in their cars with nothing to do who might be bored enough to call in.

Anthony is like 80 years old now.

He has his Geritol at 7pm and is sleeping by 7:30.

In bed by 8. So are the girls he dates.

Aside from LA (but little at that), O&A aren't big at all in the west coast.

On a side note, I'm amused at how most people here think they know more than they really do about....well, anything really.

You make stupid points.

My point is better: it will be tough to get guests for a 4-6PM show. Who the fuck is going to......wrangle with NYC traffic to get to the Cumia compound by 4PM?

Nobody, that's who.

guests = house guests

Anthony's whole crew are a bunch of uninteresting glad handing losers. Anthony is a comedic genius but who the fuck wants to hear Keith the cop , big a, and brother Joe? The only way I'd ever wanna watch is if apology girl was taking webcam requests, but aren't they done with each other? The shows gonna suck and I hate to think that but I can't see it any other way

Well it's a good thing you don't produce anything. Other than shit. From both ends.

Can you name a single thing we know about this show, other than the presence of Anthony Cumia, that is in any way promising?

With the view you are taking it would be a waste of my time.

Translation:

No. You can't name anything.

Classic liberal. Throw words in someone's mouth.

I'm not a Liberal. I despise Liberals.

Translation:

We hate most in others what we despise in ourselves.

"other than the presence of Anthony Cumia"? The presence of Anthony Cumia is the show!

Do we know for a fact that Joe and/or Keith are going to get significant mic time? It seems like a lot of people are assuming the worst, and are minimizing/glossing over how fucking cool it's going to be to listen to an uncensored AC.

Anthony's no dummy, he's been a professional broadcaster for several years, and he's charging people to listen. I have faith that he'll put on a quality show, and won't allow his brother and hangers-on to take over the airwaves.

If it was a free "for the fuck of it" show, yeah, we could be in trouble. But he knows what's on the line, and he knows that nobody wants to hear from his brother or the other leeches in his life.

And if he doesn't know it, he's going to find out really quick, and will make the necessary adjustments.

The marketplace......the subscribers or a lack thereof......will guide content, because he has to listen to his customers, because he's basically unemployable and out of other options.

I am in the Middle East. It comes on at like midnight. Why no love for us?

Midnight is probably the only time you can listen without the morality police beating you with a club for listening to indecent western propaganda. But at least you don't have to deal with women drivers.

The problem is most of the driver's here are asians. I need Ari Shaffir to give a driving class here.

20 years of O&A as a show overall saw its largest fanbases built in Philly, Boston, Cleveland, NYC and Buffalo. Even if that wasn't true, Ant's opinions fit better with east coast mentality than west. 8-10 has never been the most desirable slot. Afternoon is a significantly bigger league. It's kind of a no brainer.

This isn't radio. Nobody on the east coast with a job will be watching a live video stream at 4pm-6pm. They are in their cars.

Wait you don't want to get off from work, get home and sit in front of a computer for 2 hrs?

Exactly. Unlike watching TV, which is something many people do during prime time hours. I'd rather watch Ant on my large screen TV using a Roku or something, than watch Big Brother or some shit like that. Not at 4pm (and definitely not 1pm-3pm on the west coast)

1-3 PST is perfect for me. Put it on in the b.g. while I'm having lunch and working.

I'm not going to subscribe, but if I were, this would be the perfect time for me.

I do that pretty much every day anyway...

That's terrible. I'm sorru

Don't they make smartphones you can use plugged into your car? I honestly don't know much about it because I've never tried it, never liked streaming anything, but I assumed the technology for that was common now.

Are you going to watch a TV show in your car?

That's why they have the audio stream.

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You're forgetting all the West Coast freeloaders who don't have jobs and live in mom's basement. They'll always be able to watch live.

YOU TELL 'EM!

That's why they have the audio stream.