These consultants are usually called Indies and our paid by the record labels, as much as $1000 per spin in major markets. The indie goes up to a radio station and says "I'll give you X amount in promotional dollars if you'll sign an exclusive contract with me." Whenever you see a radio station offering some promotion, such as a free trip to England to see a band, usually an Indie donated it to the record station. Whenever a song is added tot he playlist, the indie bills a record company.
The only thing I can say in addition to Scott's words is that my understanding is that DJs no longer have any say in playlists, it all goes through a programming manager and the programming manager gets everything from the Indie (consultant). It is a completely legal loop-hole to the payola laws. The consultant is independent of both the radio station and the record company. At 08:55 AM 2/6/2003 -0500, you wrote: >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 This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
