From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!mes Newsgroups: net.music Title: Re: Rock radio parse date stringawaw - (nf) Article-I.D.: harpo.1304 Posted: Mon Jan 10 10:28:59 1983 Received: Tue Jan 11 02:29:20 1983 #R:pyuxjj:-38800:harpo:9700002:000:967 harpo!mes Jan 10 09:58:00 1983 After being closely associated with a mechanized monster type station (i.e., DrakeChenault automation) for several years, I can verify that requests do make a difference! After about six years and many,many phone requests to get that machine the #$%^%&&% out, (listeners words, not mine), the ivory tower management looked down and saw the almighty arbitron ratings disappearing (tragedy, in a very real sense, for a radio station). In a matter of minutes (seemingly), tabulations were ordered for all listeners calls, and based on a few months of this, the machine made way for real live human type disc jockeys. But, the material that those jocks play was (and is) primarily dictated by listeners calls (which, unfortunately, seem to come only from the 12-19 age group and run heavily top-40, so that's pretty much what the station is nowadays). Keep Calling! It just might help! Michael Sajor, harpo!mes, BTL-Whippany NJ