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The Brian Lehrer Show - Are Ad Blockers a Game Changer for Online Revenue?

Entertainment — Brian Lehrer discusses with Adrienne LaFrance, staff writer…
Entertainmentest. 2015
● Verified live
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 27, 2026
Pulse 40.0 · 1/4
40.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
16
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
4
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Verified live by HTTP probe across 16 observations. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
16 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 27, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 100% of 16 probesavg response 1894 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
wnyc.org
edge
direct origin
server
nginx
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

The Brian Lehrer Show - Are Ad Blockers a Game Changer for Online Revenue?'s listed site resolved live when we last probed it on Aug 27, 2026, so we mark it verified alive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 4 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Morning Edition - David Sedaris reads from SantaLand Diariesentertainmentsimilar100%8.00.0— unverified
DOGmusicRockshealthtag-overlap100%8.00.0— unverified
DTR Podcast from Tinder & Gimlet Creative - "Dick Pics"entertainmentsimilar100%49.10.0● live
The Tim Ferriss Showentertainmentsimilar80%0.00.0■ inactive
Krakozaentertainmentsimilar80%8.00.0— unverified
Science Vs - Welcomeentertainmentsimilar80%40.00.0● live
Trump Soundsentertainmentsimilar80%8.00.0— unverified
Invisibilia - Outside Inentertainmentsimilar80%8.00.0— unverified

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tierquiet
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-27 18:36Z200wnyc.orgnginx7361alive
2026-08-19 13:51Z200wnyc.orgnginx1306alive
2026-08-11 00:27Z200wnyc.orgnginx58alive
2026-08-08 06:18Z200wnyc.orgnginx1920alive
2026-08-05 18:39Z200wnyc.orgnginx1662alive
2026-07-30 17:53Z200wnyc.orgnginx1401alive
2026-07-22 09:43Z200wnyc.orgnginx1572alive
2026-07-17 09:26Z200wnyc.orgnginx1746alive
2026-07-10 10:48Z200wnyc.orgnginx2019alive
2026-07-04 09:39Z200wnyc.orgnginx2381alive
2026-06-23 13:55Z200wnyc.orgnginx1309alive
2026-06-21 10:48Z200wnyc.orgnginx1548alive
2026-06-20 00:39Z200wnyc.orgnginx1084alive
2026-06-18 22:55Z200wnyc.orgnginx1149alive
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · The Brian Lehrer Show - Are Ad Blockers a Game Changer for Online Revenue? · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/the-brian-lehrer-show-are-ad-blockers-a-game-changer-for-online-revenue · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.