{"id":65750,"date":"2015-07-11T06:48:24","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T11:48:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=65750"},"modified":"2015-07-11T07:00:20","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T12:00:20","slug":"vw-businesses-warned-of-radio-ad-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2015\/07\/11\/vw-businesses-warned-of-radio-ad-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"VW businesses warned of radio ad scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>VW independent\/submitted information<\/i><\/p>\n<p>Callers purporting to be from \u201cthe Van Wert radio stations\u201d have reportedly been dialing Van Wert businesses attempting to sell high-priced \u201csafety\u201d ad campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese so-called campaigns are priced astronomically higher than any advertising spots we\u2019ve ever sold, or ever will,\u201d said Chris Roberts, owner of WERT AM 1220 and WKSD 99.7 FM.<\/p>\n<p>According to businesses that have been approached, the subject of the ads can tug at heartstrings.\u00a0 Topics like care for the elderly, prenatal care and children\u2019s safety issues can make for an effective pitch and result in a sale.<\/p>\n<p>The problem, says Roberts, is that the cost is in the thousands and the callers do not represent local stations at all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m not quite sure what their angle is, but I would advise businesses who receive such calls to just hang up the phone,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VW independent\/submitted information Callers purporting to be from \u201cthe Van Wert radio stations\u201d have reportedly been dialing Van Wert businesses attempting to sell high-priced \u201csafety\u201d ad campaigns. \u201cThese so-called campaigns are priced astronomically higher than any advertising spots we\u2019ve ever sold, or ever will,\u201d said Chris Roberts, owner of WERT AM 1220 and WKSD 99.7 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-65750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-02 04:00:56","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65750\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}