The "Progressive" Promised Land
On Jul 11, 10:11*pm, "David Eduardo" wrote:
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On Jul 11, 6:09 pm, "David Eduardo" wrote:
That market now has more than 20 differentiable choices in formats. that
is
nearly 7 times the number of choices as before.
every city has 13 million people. have you ever heard of play lists?
that means someone else chooses what you are listening to. most
stations use play lists.
About 99.9% of the radio stations in the Western Hemisphere have
"playlists." *All that means is that the person in charge of programming has
determined what songs can be played, how often and such.
that's right, in the free market, someone else tells me what to
listen to. it was not always so.
The idea that there are musicologist-type DJs rummaging through thousands of
records is a myth, and in the few cases such exists or has existed, most
have failed.
most have been taken over by corporate america, then came the play
lists.
Stations had playlists in the 30's, just as they had lists of the
commercials they had to run, called a log.
yes they did. but the disk jockeys would not get fired if they dared
to play something not on the play list.
nice try, in free market america, you have tons of choices, that are
almost all the same.
And that, in radio, is quite untrue.
i live in a metro area with about 3.5 million people, not only is
radio ****, so is t.v., and both daily papers. prior to 1981, it was
not so.
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