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From: stuart@ssc-vax.UUCP (Stuart Lewis)
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Albums and 45's in Top 40 stations - there aren't any!
Message-ID: <186@ssc-vax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-Jun-84 11:29:16 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun  7 11:29:16 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 9-Jun-84 08:06:04 EDT
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One more (only one?!?!) comment concerning albums at top 40 stations. Very
true that A.M. Top 40 stations rarely use albums.  They don't use 45's either!
WHAT?  Yes!  Immediatly upon recieving an album, a production manager will put
the choice "current" hot cuts onto a cart.  A cart is simply a modified 8-track
cartridge.  Stations buy empty carts buy the thousands, and reels of blank
tape buy the hundreds of yards.  Then each cart is custom filled with just the
right time amount of tape (within 5 to 10 seconds of the song length to be put
on it).  Then the songs are put on it.  Ergo, the record library of the station
is brand new so that they can play the hell out of a cart and then make a new
copy of it from a once played original.  Walk in to any top 40 station and you
won't see any records. (Large market that is).

Play it 'til you vomit!!

				      Stuart Lewis
				      ssc-vax!stuart