Fwd: Re: W-H-RB on the Internet

[lglavin@lycosmail.com]

 ---- you wrote: 
> > A good music research program selects participants at random from members
> > of a station's audience. It then attempts to quantify their appreciation
> > of different pieces of music and to derive from the resulting numbers
> > conclusions useful to the station's programmers. These conclusions may
> > differ sharply from those suggested by listener requests.
>  
> Then what's the point of the Top 40 survey?
> 
> 
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WARNING:  Another WCRB pot shot (but I'm not on drugs...
honest.)

WCRB in its current configuration uses Top-40 style 
gimmicks to relieve the tedium.  Things like a "Top 40
Countdown" or baseball-oriented tie-ins at the time
of the Red Sox' opening day, are like sauce on pallid
food, designed to disguise the unremitting sameness of
their programming.

Laurence from Methuen


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