Castellini on Computers gets bumped again

The radio business is just that. It's a business.

I recieved a call this week from the station manager to let us know that AM 1100 KNZZ is going to be bumping the first half hour of our show off the air locally. It seems that there is a new local real estate show that is paying to be on starting at 11a.m. every Saturday.

Listeners will still be able to listen via the Internet and call in to the show at our regular number, but KNZZ has made the decision to not air our show for the first half hour.

As you will likely recall, they just started airing our entire program a few months ago after cutting the last 30 minutes off to run colon and prostate health infomercials.

We complained to the management, but they explained that the new real estate show is paying big dollars to be on at that time. Either way, since Rick and Adam get paid absolutly nothing to do the show, we have no paid advertisers and our web ads only bring in about $35/month, we can not afford to have any control in this situation.

All we ask is that our listeners hang in there with us. We hope that our local listeners will still tune in to the first half hour on the web.

We are extremely frustrated by this. Someday we hope to be an important force in helping the average computer user feel more comfortable with their computer.

We have had several let downs over the years, but we do it because we believe that no one else does what we do for the common man. Geeks have books and educations, but where does the person go for computer help when they just want to use their PC as a tool and they don't really care about the bits and bytes?

Rick may ask me to pull this article when he sees it. But he is on vacation.