{"id":2860,"date":"2009-11-09T13:03:05","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T21:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/?p=2860"},"modified":"2009-11-09T13:03:05","modified_gmt":"2009-11-09T21:03:05","slug":"paul-simon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/paul-simon\/","title":{"rendered":"OKAY, SO WHERE IS TODAY&#8217;S RADIO COMMERCIAL SMACKDOWN?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2863\" title=\"PaulSimon\" src=\"http:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/11\/PaulSimon.jpg\" alt=\"radio programming graphic\" width=\"193\" height=\"133\" \/>It&#8217;s Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Why is there no Monday Radio Commercial Smackdown?<\/p>\n<p>Because the server that hosts this blog was been &#8220;down&#8221; from Sunday until just a couple of minutes ago, and I was unable to upload the Thrilling Commercial Critique.<\/p>\n<p>And by now, it&#8217;s almost of the end of the workday for any Loyal Readers and if I published it now you wouldn&#8217;t see it until tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>But even then you wouldn&#8217;t see it, because tomorrow&#8217;s posting will be there at the top of this page. 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It would&#8217;ve been incredible.<\/p>\n<p>As a consolation, here&#8217;s America&#8217;s greatest songwriter talking a little about his craft.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<table style=\"font-family: arial; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; font-size: 11px; line-height: normal; font-size-adjust: none; font-stretch: normal; color: #333333; background-color: #f5f5f5; height: 353px;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"360\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"background-color:#e5e5e5\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;\"><a style=\"color:#333; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Colbert Report<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding:2px 5px 0px 5px; text-align:right; font-weight:bold;\">Mon &#8211; Thurs 11:30pm \/ 10:30c<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 14px;\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding:2px 1px 0px 5px;\" colspan=\"2\"><a style=\"color:#333; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/the-colbert-report-videos\/210692\/november-18-2008\/paul-simon-pt--1\" target=\"_blank\">Paul Simon Pt. 1<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 14px; background-color: #353535;\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding: 2px 5px 0px; overflow: hidden; width: 360px; text-align: right;\" colspan=\"2\"><a style=\"color:#96deff; text-decoration:none; font-weight:bold;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.colbertnation.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">colbertnation.com<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding:0px;\" colspan=\"2\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object style=\"display: block;\" classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"360\" height=\"301\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#000000\" \/><param name=\"flashvars\" value=\"autoPlay=false\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:210692\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"window\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed style=\"display: block;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"360\" height=\"301\" src=\"http:\/\/media.mtvnservices.com\/mgid:cms:item:comedycentral.com:210692\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"window\" flashvars=\"autoPlay=false\" bgcolor=\"#000000\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr style=\"height: 18px;\" valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding:0px;\" colspan=\"2\">\n<table style=\"margin: 0px; text-align: center; height: 100%;\" border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"100%\">\n<tbody>\n<tr valign=\"middle\">\n<td style=\"padding: 3px; width: 33%;\"><a style=\"font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.comedycentral.com\/colbertreport\/full-episodes\" target=\"_blank\">Colbert Report Full Episodes<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 3px; width: 33%;\"><a style=\"font:10px arial; color:#333; text-decoration:none;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indecisionforever.com\" target=\"_blank\">Political Humor<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"padding: 3px; width: 33%;\"><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Monday. Why is there no Monday Radio Commercial Smackdown? Because the server that hosts this blog was been &#8220;down&#8221; from Sunday until just a couple of minutes ago, and I was unable to upload the Thrilling Commercial Critique. And by now, it&#8217;s almost of the end of the workday for any Loyal Readers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2860","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-uncategorized"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>OKAY, SO WHERE IS TODAY&#039;S RADIO COMMERCIAL SMACKDOWN? - DAN O\u2019DAY TALKS ABOUT RADIO<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/danoday.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/paul-simon\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"OKAY, SO WHERE IS TODAY&#039;S RADIO COMMERCIAL SMACKDOWN? - DAN O\u2019DAY TALKS ABOUT RADIO\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"It&#8217;s Monday. 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