Re: FW: Birthday Games

[SteveOrdinetz <steveord@xtdl.com>]

At 02:31 AM 3/12/99 -0500, Mike Thomas wrote:
>I currently monitor the station for Mediabase 24/7 since they usually get
a two or three share in Providence without even trying.


Curiously (without giving out any proprietary secrets) how does
Premiere/Mediabase come up with their info?  I would presume there is some
sort of automated monitoring station setup in various markets, but looking
at the results there are some very new and/or obscure songs listed, as well
as it detecting alternate mixes of the hits.  Is every song ever recorded
sampled and put into the database or is there some sort of method used to
decide what gets entered each week.

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