Re: RE: Re: Non-comm rankings

["Dan Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@attorneyross.com>
To: <lglavin@lycos.com>; <boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>; "Dan
Billings" <billings@suscom-maine.net>
Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2003 12:43 AM
Subject: Re: RE: Re: Non-comm rankings


> I don't think Top 40 stations in the "glory days of AM radio" had tighter
playlists than stations
> today.  Besides the Top 40 -- 40 songs, mind you -- they also played new
records not yet on
> the charts and often a smattering of oldies, "blasts from the past," or
"from the WKBR-
> chives," etc.  And the DJs had a certain amount of freedom in choosing
these, I hear.

Even the tightest formatted station today is playing 200 to 250 songs.  Bob
Bitner has discussed this issue on LTAR and talked about the top stations
like WABC playing only a few dozen songs in the glory days of radio.

-- Dan Billings, Bowdoinham, Maine