On Mon, 4 Mar 1996, Alphabet Design wrote:
quoted 2 lines All radio is, really, is advertisement for music.> All radio is, really, is advertisement for music.
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It is possible for radio to be more than an ad or music. Non-commercial,
community and college station are supposed to be free rom commercialism.
It's not always going to happen as many programmers will take the easy
route and play whatever everybody else is playing.
Being a non-commercial station which you mentioned that you were, frees
you from record companies. It's a true gift when you realize that
commercial radio stations program what they play weeks in advance. At a
commercial station they are adverrtising music. Most commercial stations
don't even have entire albums and they get sent special cd with about 15
songs (all big singles) from te labels MOST major artists. These get ed
into a Sony jukebox and programming takes care off itself.
I do have a radio show. I play techno. I know I have a a fairly big
following but I never get phone calls. One week I decided not to
announce any song titles. Still no phone calls. Check with my friends
in the next couple of days, and yeah, they had listened but they didn't
care about the song titles. They are only listening to enjoy and to be
especially exposed to somethhing they can't get anywhere else. (in a
city of 80000).
sorry or the long pointless(?) rant, but I feel strongly about college
radio and I never see my show as an ad, cause I know people aren't going
to run out and buy Disjecta, but they do enjoy when they hear it.
Phil Downey