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at 4:55pm CDT both 92.9 & 105.9 were playing the same song. Any guesses? 2. Would this happen very often?
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A: thginoT riA eht nI
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How often are people listening to two radio stations at the same time?
It was a cross-format hit that was also used in Miami Vice.
FYI: There's a current country song that draws on this song for inspiration, so it's possible it was getting played on SIX or KDF, if you were listening at the same time.
I've read stories about overnight jocks (way back when most stations were live and local overnight) who'd arrange with a friend at a competing station (usually AOR) to synchronize their playlists for several songs so that one station would play a certain song and the other would play the same song right after the first station had moved on to the next. The stories always ended with a station owner calling the guilty jock and telling him to cut it out. I'm not sure if this sort of thing happened often, or perhaps never happened at all. How free were jocks to tamper with playlists in the "good old days"?
Ugh, has to be "In the Air Tonight." I am sick to death of that song, and I could live the rest of my life quite comfortably if I never heard it again.
Going back to the 70's in larger markets I'd never heard of jocks being allowed to modify an entire hour to match the competition. Not sure why they would want to anyway. The competition is the competition. Dropping in a different song than on the playlist to finish out the hour is one thing, but changing an entire hour to collaborate with the enemy? I smell a radio nerd wives tail.
It's right up there about the good ol' days when jocks picked their own music for an entire shift.
Not sure if one can say Mix (AC) and The Rock (classic rock) are competing stations. They may share some audience, but probably not at the same time. We're talking about one of the most popular, best testing songs in its genre. As I said, the song was used in Miami Vice, which was one of the most popular TV shows at the time. It was also a core song at MTV. And it was the inspiration to a recent country hit, written by an artist in his 30s. So that explains why its popular in these two formats that aim at people in that demographic. Coincidence? Yes.
iheart has four carts. They are willing too splurge for that? Tonight, I heard two commercials, one attempt at the TOH news playing AND the actual TOH all at once. Top that with your dreams of hearing Phil Collins Triplets. You get that kinda speeding your way through a radio hour up Norf, BigA? They literally covered all five breaks in less than five minutes. That's one way to stop those 20 minute stopsets.
I never hear this problem with anyone else's automation. Only iHeart.
1200 in the Boston area seems to be notorious for this, along with running days-old weather.
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