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Topic: what is wrong with the radio industry?
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Mike Blakesley
Film God
Posts: 12767
From: Forsyth, Montana
Registered: Jun 99
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posted 06-21-2014 11:12 PM
Radio is fine if you're just looking for background music, but I'm too picky about what I listen to when I drive alone. So, when the trial period of XM in my pickup ran out I didn't renew it. In fact even when I had it, I never used it.
So screw it, I do my listening via connected iPod or CD when I'm driving by myself. Outside of music for background noise at work, I haven't listened to music on a radio station of any kind in years.
What I would like to see somebody do is come up with a radio station that would concentrate on the ARTISTS from a particular era, and not worry about when the actual music was recorded. For example, I happen to like Fleetwood Mac, but if you listen to a '70s channel you'd never hear a song like "Big Love" or "Say You Will" because those songs were recorded in the 80s and the 2000s, respectively. On my fantasy station, ANY song from ANY era of Fleetwood Mac would be eligible to be played. Hits, album tracks, live tunes...anything would go. And if they come out with a new album I'd feature tracks from that too.
There was actually a station like this on XM before it was swallowed up and ruined by Sirius. I forget what the station was called but their slogan was, "It doesn't have to be old for us to play it; it just has to be AWESOME." So you never knew what you'd hear next on that station. I loved it.
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Brad Miller
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Posts: 17775
From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall)
Registered: May 99
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posted 08-10-2014 02:57 PM
This Calgary radio station has started cutting songs in half so listeners don’t get bored
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Time is short and so is our attention span, which explains Quickhitz, a new radio format promising twice as many songs per hour as conventional radio stations.
Unveiled in Canada for the first time at Calgary radio station 90.3 AMP on Friday, Quickhitz provides shortened versions of popular songs, edited from three to four minutes down to about half that length, so listeners don’t get bored. Even the commercial breaks are brief, averaging around nine minutes per hour instead of the regular 12 minutes on most top 40 stations.
90.3 AMP says it now plays 24 songs per hour compared to the 12 it used to play.
“A lot of people can’t detect the music has been edited,” said Hillary Hommy, vice-president of brands and networks at Sparknet Communications, a Vancouver-based consultancy that developed Quickhitz.
The format was first launched in the U.S. in September and stations in the U.K. and Australia are planning to introduce Quickhitz within the next six months, Ms. Hommy said.
Sparknet typically provides radio stations with a library of Quickhitz songs and advice on how to implement the concept.
I sure wish some big exhibitor would start editing movies so they could fit more shows in a day and keep people from being bored at the cinema, forcing them to play with their cell phones.
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David Buckley
Jedi Master Film Handler
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From: Oxford, N. Canterbury, New Zealand
Registered: Aug 2004
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posted 08-17-2014 04:48 PM
I dabble with radio in a similar sort of way that I dabble with movies, in that I do tech work at our local community radio station. It's only a little station, with a coverage area about the size of the big island of Hawaii.
When it's not got a DJ at the helm, its a random player, from a bank of about 30K tracks. As there's been comments about tracks getting played repeatedly, I had a quick look at the stats, my data goes back over about 40K tracks played since the start of June, the repeat winner is... Psy - Gangnam Style" with 12 plays. Fuck!!! Need to have a word with someone about that. There's plenty of tracks with 7 plays, lots of which are tracks worth playing.
Unofficial listen link (ie my private feed!)
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