Post by BrettVW on May 29, 2005 8:58:35 GMT -5
My local affiliate for AT40 has recently started doing something kind of different.
With the new "Less Is More" campaign on Clear Channel....the hours are timing out to approx. 55 minutes for the show. However, they also do not air the optional extra segments. But, after checking yes.net playlists, I can't find any stations running extra songs on AT40.
I don't know if this is a board-op, or simply the computer doing it to time out the hours....but if any given hour of AT40 ends prior to the top of the hour, the station reverts back to sweepers and regular music until the top of the hour. It's generally at most 3 songs, but it, to me at least, throws off the whole flow of the countdown.
I have, on rare occasion, heard stations add a song between hours, but generally I have always thought it was a goof, not for timing. But after a few weeks I have realized these are definately timed to be there. In the past, and back when the station ran AT40 w/ Casey....hours would still run early, but they never added extra music. And, the station is a CC "Kiss-FM", yet the songs added during these times are songs I haven't heard on CHR radio for 2 or 3 years sometimes. It's very odd. Just wondering if anyone else has ever experienced this.
With the new "Less Is More" campaign on Clear Channel....the hours are timing out to approx. 55 minutes for the show. However, they also do not air the optional extra segments. But, after checking yes.net playlists, I can't find any stations running extra songs on AT40.
I don't know if this is a board-op, or simply the computer doing it to time out the hours....but if any given hour of AT40 ends prior to the top of the hour, the station reverts back to sweepers and regular music until the top of the hour. It's generally at most 3 songs, but it, to me at least, throws off the whole flow of the countdown.
I have, on rare occasion, heard stations add a song between hours, but generally I have always thought it was a goof, not for timing. But after a few weeks I have realized these are definately timed to be there. In the past, and back when the station ran AT40 w/ Casey....hours would still run early, but they never added extra music. And, the station is a CC "Kiss-FM", yet the songs added during these times are songs I haven't heard on CHR radio for 2 or 3 years sometimes. It's very odd. Just wondering if anyone else has ever experienced this.