Re: Tight Play Lists

[nuhuc@juno.com (Rick Kelly)]

On Tue, 27 Oct 1998 00:46:37 -0500 (EST) "'A. Joseph Ross'"
<lawyer@world.std.com> writes:

>They seem to get fixated on certain things and play them to death.  A
few years >ago, they kept playing the first movement of Beethoven's 8th
symphony.  

Many stations use a procedure called "platooning" where a core of music
will be played to death, and then put to rest for a while, with another
platoon of music brought in.  Perhaps this is the concept that WCRB uses.

>I've found that WCRB has a greater tendency to play 
>music that I like to listen to.  Often, when I turn to other stations,
they 
>are playing something I don't like.  This is especially true with WHRB, 
>for some reason.  I'm somewhat limited by reception -- I can't get WGBH
or
>WBOQ in my office, and I can't usually listen to WBOQ in my car.  But 
>when I check the stations out while driving, I more often settle on WCRB

>than on the others, even counting the fact that WGBH and WHRB aren't
always
>playing classical music.

Well then, it could be that WCRB's music research is paying off.  I'd be
willing to bet that WHRB and WGBH don't do research.

Rick Kelly
















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