Not the same law.
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Not the same law.
"promotional and other consideration provided by" is how TV discloses that there is pay for placement or other activity going on
Duped into what? Thinking that a particular song is good? Wasn't that up to the individual listener, whether the DJ was being paid to play the song or not? Or did the average Top 40 listener at this time worship the hotshot local DJ and think that every song he played must be good?
Duped into thinking that a station that put out a music chart, and announced chart positions, and solicited requests....was playing songs based on their popularity.....and not based at how much green is going into the DJ's pocket.
Also, add to the mix the ability of Congress to grandstand on whatever issue they think will put them in a good light.
Different law....same concept.
As I said earlier (post #32), any law that singles out radio from all other platforms by which people hear music is outdated.
<<<<<"Why are we buying spots and putting money into the pocket of a station that is dissing us every day?">>>>
Because Maynard, for one, was doing 12 shares in AMD and selling a sh**load of cars for them. We'd have some of the groups individual dealers out at 'BZ events and they'd be so all over Maynard that you'd have thought they were going to have to rent a room.
The Lemon Law was either going to pass or fail, but the day after the passage or failure, those dealers were still going to be trying to move that Detroit iron off their lots, and 'BZ helped move it.
<<<<<Do you blame the dealers?>>>>>
I don't blame the dealers for taking their best shot at the station thru their agency, but EVERYONE at the agency knew this was a non-starter. People forget, but at the time the Lemon Law debate was a real front burner, hot-button issue and the idea that the region's numero uno news organization wasn't going to be all over it was just silly.
<<<<<I am glad the GM of WBZ didn't cave>>>>>
The newsroom mutiny would have been unseemly. And, if some tee'd off 'BZer ever leaked a story that a dealer group was so afraid of the Lemon Law that they had demanded a news feature be spiked the damage to both the station AND the dealer group would have been awful to behold.
<<<.....However, I wouldn't blame the dealers if they yanked their ad dollars....would you?>>>>>
Of course, it's their money, but I'd blame them for being petulent and foolish.Business is business. 'BZ's business was covering stories of local interest. The members of the dealer groups business was selling cars. If BZ's coverage of the local scene generated listeners who bought cars, we have a symbiotic relationship.
In the event, over thirty years later, nobody even remembers that the Lemon Law exists but most of those dealers do. The names and players and mediums have changed, but the game remains the same.
Because Maynard, for one, was doing 12 shares in AMD and selling a sh**load of cars for them. We'd have some of the groups individual dealers out at 'BZ events and they'd be so all over Maynard that you'd have thought they were going to have to rent a room.
The Lemon Law was either going to pass or fail, but the day after the passage or failure, those dealers were still going to be trying to move that Detroit iron off their lots, and 'BZ helped move it.
<<<<<Do you blame the dealers?>>>>>
I don't blame the dealers for taking their best shot at the station thru their agency, but EVERYONE at the agency knew this was a non-starter. People forget, but at the time the Lemon Law debate was a real front burner, hot-button issue and the idea that the region's numero uno news organization wasn't going to be all over it was just silly.
<<<<<I am glad the GM of WBZ didn't cave>>>>>
The newsroom mutiny would have been unseemly. And, if some tee'd off 'BZer ever leaked a story that a dealer group was so afraid of the Lemon Law that they had demanded a news feature be spiked the damage to both the station AND the dealer group would have been awful to behold.
<<<.....However, I wouldn't blame the dealers if they yanked their ad dollars....would you?>>>>>
Of course, it's their money, but I'd blame them for being petulent and foolish.Business is business. 'BZ's business was covering stories of local interest. The members of the dealer groups business was selling cars. If BZ's coverage of the local scene generated listeners who bought cars, we have a symbiotic relationship.
In the event, over thirty years later, nobody even remembers that the Lemon Law exists but most of those dealers do. The names and players and mediums have changed, but the game remains the same.
<<<<In radio, the songs sound like program content to the listeners.>>>>
Which led to the tight playlists that everyone complains about and were a reaction to DJ's playing the payola game. DJ's largely lost their ability to program their own music programs.
Some cynics think that the unintended consequences of this 'one-stop-shopping' was PD and MD coke addictions.
Which led to the tight playlists that everyone complains about and were a reaction to DJ's playing the payola game. DJ's largely lost their ability to program their own music programs.
Some cynics think that the unintended consequences of this 'one-stop-shopping' was PD and MD coke addictions.
Right from the beginning of Top 40 in Omaha in 1952 most stations had station playlists and the jocks had very little leeway in selecting songs or changing rotations.
Where we had DJs making the choices was, first, in dayparted "specialty" shows. Alan Freed in Cleveland did a rock and roll show at night on an otherwise MOR network affiliate; he got a sponsorship from Record Rendezvous that paid for the airtime and he picked the music... apparently with the help of the record ducks.
As a rule, any station that had a printed playlist given out at record stores had a strict music list on the air with no deviations.
Then, about 15 years later, when FMs were forced to drop simulcasting, the opportunity for "DJ Choice" again popped up with progressive rock stations where deep cuts and little known artists were the hallmark of the sound... until Lee Abrams blew most of them away in the mid-70's with a tight, very controlled music list and rotations.
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