What Time Means to Radio Hosts
You know how it is when listening to terrestrial radio (you still do listen to it, don't you?) - you get in your car, you hear 15 to 20 minutes of annoying commercials, mindless chit-chat, a song you absolutely loathe, and then FINALLY a song you love...30 seconds before you arrive at your destination.
Something similar applies to talk radio shows and hosts. They promise a good segment, a special guest, a juicy topic, an important announcement, an answer to a trivia question that's been bugging the heck out of you, or whatever it may be. They they force you to wait. They string you along, blabbing and droning on and on about something that is about as interesting as a piece of dress shirt cardboard. They unknowingly tease you along while the seconds tick away before you pull in your work parking lot or your driveway. J.C. Corcoran is especially guilty of this. Just get to the good stuff already! It makes you wish you had a fast-forward button for live radio.
So, as a service to you, I will present what the radio host will promise and interpret what the phrase actually means, so that you won't waste your time driving around your block seven times or sit in the parking spot for an eternity with your car idling.
| What the host says | What it really means |
| In a few seconds... | In a few minutes, right after we get off this boring tangent and finally get back on track... |
| In a few minutes... | Several minutes from now, after at least one overly-long commercial break and a few minutes of obnoxious chatting.. |
| In just a bit... | 15 to 30 minutes from now, usually after at least two commercial breaks... |
| Later in this hour... | In the very last segment of the hour... |
| Later in this show... | During the very last segment or two of the show... |
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