The Teckki Says

TMI!!!

Subject: Clear Channel Radio Station Websites.
Source: Websites for Chicago Clear Channel Radio Stations WVAZ-FM, WKCS-FM and WLIT-FM.

Nominated for: "Action Distraction" award based on,

(1). Putting too much content on the first page of their websites.

(2). Flashing displays, in your face graphics, and the use of colors that don't necessarily coordinate.

(3). The only thing Rock, R&B and Adult Contemporary have in common is that they are all music, but thanks to Clear Channel, they all have the same look and feel via their websites!

The graphic below contains THREE Websites! Clear Channel is anything but that when it comes to their stations' websites.

Things Found En Route to Looking for Other Things...

Subject: WSCR-AM Sports Radio website; No straightforward way to find it.
Source: WSCR-AM Sports Radio (The Score 670) Google search and subsequent found website.

Nominated for: "I Wasn't Looking for This" award based on,

(1). I had to perform a Google search to find their website link.

(2). The link goes to a parent website, merging information of their TV and radio news properties instead of focusing on sports. Your newspapers sites have more sports coverage than this site.

(3). They did not purchase the domain stating the call letters for their radio station, allowing someone else to put up a spoof website.

You would think that a major sports station in a major market, with major sports franchises, could do better than this!

Quick, what website are you on?

Subject: Web page ads so overwhelming that I am not sure who's website I'm on.
Source: WBBM-FM Radio Website.

Nominated for: "Who's Your Daddy?" award based on the heavy advertising that obscures the actual site destination.

(1). I understand that advertising pays the bills, but most visitors are looking for information, not the ads, on THIS website.

(2). If their radio programming matched proportionately the ad content on their home page - We'd be subject to over forty minutes of commercials every hour!

(3). This is what happens when print moves to the web - those circulars that used to fall out of the middle of newspapers now become a part of them!

Subject: Rahm Emanuel on Chicago pre-mayoral campaign listening tour.
Source: Chicago Tribune website, published 10/5/10


Nominated for: "Thousands Errors" award based on:

(1). Chicago's transit trains are color coded, and the green banner on the train does not match the "Red Line" description on the caption.

(2). Chicago's largest major city newspaper should know that the stop their describing is underground at that point, while out the train's windows you can see buildings.

If all of your business is not local, then this doesn't matter. However, most newspapers business (including the Chicago Tribune) is local, if they can't get the picture or article right, it's a distraction that can keep many of their viewers from focusing on anything else, including the ads that might also be on the page.

Subject: Blog Comments on articles
Source: Chicago SunTimes website, published 10/7/10

Nominated for: "Free Advertising on Us" award based on:

(1). Since when is an Ad an opinion?

(2). Since these appear so often, either no one is monitoring the blog, or perhaps you ARE charging for revenue.

(3). Since blog comments on these sites are indexed by the search engines, this also helps these posters reach the top of search engine results by allowing their links to be posted on legitimate sites.

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You can't continue to cry broke, and allow someone to steal the product in this manner. While these posters will probably never pay for advertising, give them credit for being smart enough to post their ads on articles where the response is the highest. If I were a paid advertiser, you'd definitely see this come up in the next contract negotiations!