"Brenda Ann" wrote in message
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"SWLforever" wrote in message
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D Peter Maus wrote:

Ok. Let's look at that.

How deep do you go on the list? You get one hundred songs rated, how
deep do you go? How do you tier them?

How do you rotate them. With what do you mix them? How old do you go?
What's your current/gold ratio? How many categories of Recurrent do you
have? Do you play the top 10 straight up, or do you break it up into top
10 and top 5 like WLS did in the 70's. With different rotational periods
for every category.

Who decides what songs are on the survey list? That decision would
ultimately have more impact on the songs that get played than the
influence of the station PD's.

Which is precisely my point. The 'listeners choose the playlist'.. from a
prepared playlist. It all goes back to the stations telling the listeners
what they will like. That they let them choose a few from that limited
selection only reduces everyone else's choices even further.

Of course, that is not true. The lists are often so big that the respondents
have to come back several nights in a row to hear them all... I've done
1,500 song tests for one station which, over the last few years has played
"what if" with more than 4000 songs in an Adult Hits format.

The reason most cases are far less is that, for example, if you test a
library cut ("oldie") several times and it is absolutely stiff, you don't
test it any more. So it is, in fact, hard to come up with a list of "what
if" or far off center songs for every test because you already know after a
while which songs are stone cold dead and the field becomes more and more
limited.