Off topic.... I used to work for a radio station, and the way the DJ's normally get their playlists is through a consultant. The consultant makes a list of songs in 3 groups; high medium, or low rotation (they are termed differently consultant to consultant, but you get the idea). From there, the DJ only plays those songs. And if the consultant recommends playing a certain song, then the DJ does just that...
These consultants go to conferences & hang-out with the singers (the one consultant I met has hung out with Garth Brooks, Faith Hill, Shania Twain & others, just to name a few, on multiple occasions), as well as the label execs. As far as plugging in the playlists, once the DJ gets the list from the consultant, they create a playlist, much like you do in Winamp, and it fires along, cross-fading commercials or other songs into it using multiple sound cards. Sorry, I know more than I want to about the radio industry.... Scott -----Original Message----- From: Jeffry Houser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 9:03 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: who on here did the death clock? Off topic here, but Clear Channel owns a significant portion of the radio stations... Payola does exist. Most playlists are "piped in" (I'm not sure how) to computers which play them. The DJs have no control. I've heard that the three biggest radio stations in Connecticut are three computers sitting side by side in a room. At 08:28 AM 2/6/2003 -0500, you wrote: >lol, >guess its the competition thing! >like when you hear a song on one station then switch to another 5 minutes >later and its on and its always some really off the wall song. makes u >scratch your nads and wonder if competition really exists! haha > >ok, no sleep hasn't made me any funnier today > >Dave > >-------------- .::. ----------------------------------------- > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Critz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 8:13 AM >Subject: Re: who on here did the death clock? > > > > oi Dave!! > > > > ha. they must get their ideas from same place, because radio station in >Raleigh was going on about > > it this morning as well. > > > > > > Critz > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Thursday, February 6, 2003, 1:18:10 AM, you wrote: > > > > DL> awee, that's right, I knew I had seen it somewhere. > > > > DL> was just funny, I was driving today and one of the local Louisville >radio > > DL> stations was talking about it today, was quite amusing. > > DL> they were quite intrigued with it, lol > > > > DL> Dave > > > > DL> -------------- .::. ----------------------------------------- > > > > DL> ----- Original Message ----- > > DL> From: "Pablo Varando" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > DL> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > DL> Sent: Thursday, February 06, 2003 1:09 AM > > DL> Subject: Re: who on here did the death clock? > > > > > > >> That would be Raymond Camden > > >> > > >> :) > > >> > > >> Pablo > > >> ----- Original Message ----- > > >> From: "Dave Lyons" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 11:56 PM > > >> Subject: who on here did the death clock? > > >> > > >> > > >> > i know someone here did the death clock > > >> > anyone know who it is? > > >> > > > >> > Dave > > >> > > > >> > -------------- .::. ----------------------------------------- > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > DL> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
