After the first few questions, I thought this was just a nice general survey like how often I listen to the radio and what age range I fall under. Then things went right to the good stuff.
She told me a new radio station was coming to town. I thought, 'hey, that's fantastic! Maybe get a little variety for a change on the airwaves!' *buzz!* wrong! She gave me the first choice of hard rock music. She even gave me a sampling of the music they offered - all RIAA mainstream acts. Then asked me if I'd be interested in tuning into that station. So I flat out reject it.
Then the second "station" was going to play softer rock music. All RIAA mainstream acts. So I say no as usual. Then the third choice was "classic" rock, all RIAA music - all rejected. The final choice was a radio station which - get this - "features new acts such as Metallica and Kiss with a variety of different kinds of rock" - flat out rejected as usual, but the thought that crossed my mind was, 'since when the hell was Metallica a new artist???' I then asked if there was going to be something other than rock for a choice and she told me that there were no other stations being offered.
But hey, I still got a little fun out of this one because when she asked what station I think is the best station, I just plugged my own radio station. She then asked me, "Uhm... what's the frequency?" so I told her what it was. Then she continued, "What station would you tune in to go downtown?", I answer with the radio station I'm on. There was more questions that were more reasonable, but those were the funniest.
Then, when I thought the survey couldn't get any more clueless, she then asks me, "What kind of music do you listen to on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being mellowed out music to 10 being more faster and energetic?" I had to ask, "What kind of idiot thought of this question anyway? Doesn't that depend on mood in the first place???"
Before she hung up on me, I asked if she would be willing to make a note that this listener wants more independent acts on the radio. She gave me the usual BS comment of "yeah, I'll make a note of that, bye!" knowing full well that wouldn't get past her (if it would, then I would have heard a pause, little did she know I was a telemarketer at one point and know the ropes of this sort of thing too)
Could a survey get any more clueless then that? This is clearly push polling probably brought on by an existing station (I heard one of them changed momentarily to a new name before reverting back to the older name) If this was an honest poll, they would put more than just rock music in the choices like, I dunno, blues, country, rap, metal, (of course) electronica, etc. You know it's push-polling when all four choices for favorite music are 'rock, rock, rock or rock'
Just another example of how clueless some of these media conglomerates can be - even locally.
