Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxn.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxn!rlr From: rlr@pyuxn.UUCP (Rich Rosen) Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: Speeding up the music Message-ID: <744@pyuxn.UUCP> Date: Wed, 13-Jun-84 14:10:19 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxn.744 Posted: Wed Jun 13 14:10:19 1984 Date-Received: Thu, 14-Jun-84 00:28:08 EDT References: <491@hou2h.UUCP> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 26 > 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