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From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: Speeding up the music
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Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 14:10:19 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 13 14:10:19 1984
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> While we're on this discussion on AM and AOR format radio stations, I have
> another question.  Do some radio stations speed up their turntables or cart
> machines?  When I hear a tune that I'm familiar with on some stations, its key
> sounds slightly higher (most noticeable in the voice) and the tempo sounds
> rushed.  WPLJ and WAPP are metropolitan Bayonne area stations that sound as if
> they have sped up their playback equipment.
> Gil Bristol  hou2h!bristol

Yup, it's a familiar tactic amongst the more money-hungry stations.  The reason
is pretty obvious:  they can claim more music per unit time, while still
opening up more time for commercial advertising bucks.  "Yes, WIMP-FM, we play 
40 songs an hour and still have room for 30 minutes of commercials!"

Another really annoying tactic is the "commercial-free bloc", in which they
claim "1 full hour of commercial free music", during which they insert as many
station promos as possible (leaving the extended spans of commercials for the
extremities of the bloc).  Apparently station promos don't count as commercials
to them.

Have we just about killed the topic of radio programming in net.music?  I mean,
it really has very little to do with music (and I don't mean because it deals
with Top 40 and AOR and Adult Contemporary schlock---because it has more to do
with the broadcasting industry than with music).  It seems like we're beating
a dead horse.
-- 
"Submitted for your approval..."		  Rich Rosen    pyuxn!rlr