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KIIS FM Keeps Playing the Same Songs

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Listening to KIIS on iHeart app and they keep playing the same songs over and over. Is this normal? I am hearing the same songs looped every hour and no different or new tracks.
 
Is it the entire hour? Is there imaging between the songs? If it's the stream it could be a spot break failed to rejoin and you're in some sort of fill song black hole. It happens from time to time.
 
So ... we have allegations in this thread that a major market CHR -- as heard on an app -- is (1) playing songs in the same order for hours and (2) playing individual songs over and over again. Can anyone who's in range of KIIS's analog FM signal confirm that this laughably amateurish programming is indeed going out over the airwaves?
 
cer1992 said:
Playing the same songs at least once an hour is what radio stations have been doing for decades. It's how the artists get paid and those specufiicsongs happen to be the most requested (at the moment) by listeners.
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Few high rotation formats (CHR, Churban, some urban formats) play songs that fast. Generally, only powers are played as often as every 90 minutes, with the rest of the currents being in several slightly slower rotations of two and three hours.

Historically, some Top 40’s might have played the #1 song each hour, but anything under about 90 minutes is rare.
 
KIIS must be doing something right, they've been around for a a long time, consistently in the top 10. I don't think they'll be changing their approach to CHR anytime soon.
 
davideduardo said:
Few high rotation formats (CHR, Churban, some urban formats) play songs that fast. Generally, only powers are played as often as every 90 minutes, with the rest of the currents being in several slightly slower rotations of two and three hours.

Historically, some Top 40’s might have played the #1 song each hour, but anything under about 90 minutes is rare.
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Wasn't Top 40 radio born out of somebody back in the 50s who had a station, and noticed that kids in a local malt shop kept playing the same songs over and over again on the jukebox? (Or something like this)
 
TomásEstefan said:
Wasn't Top 40 radio born out of somebody back in the 50s who had a station, and noticed that kids in a local malt shop kept playing the same songs over and over again on the jukebox? (Or something like this)
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Yes. It was the late station owner Todd Storz who made that observation. Here's the article on same at David's site:

KOWH Omaha: The birth of American's First Top 40 station

Todd Storz is credited with the creation of the Top 40 radio format in 1952 at KOWH in Omaha, Nebraska. This is the story of how Mr Storz created a new type of radio and it includes an audio history.
www.worldradiohistory.com
 
TomásEstefan said:
Wasn't Top 40 radio born out of somebody back in the 50s who had a station, and noticed that kids in a local malt shop kept playing the same songs over and over again on the jukebox? (Or something like this)
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Todd Storz, owner of a 500 watt daytimer in Omaha, went to a coffee shop with his PD quite often. They noted that the waitresses would often take a nickel out of their tips and play a song. Mostly the same songs until they got tired of them and started playing newer ones.

They converted that into fulltime Top 40, tabulating jukebox plays and record sales and playing the top songs over and over.

KOWH Omaha: The birth of American's First Top 40 station

Todd Storz is credited with the creation of the Top 40 radio format in 1952 at KOWH in Omaha, Nebraska. This is the story of how Mr Storz created a new type of radio and it includes an audio history.
www.worldradiohistory.com
 


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