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MikeShannon914
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Boy, that didn't take very long. Tuned in in the middle of a stopset today. At least Jack gave time for listeners to warm up to it before putting commercials in the mix.
Are we seeing a pattern here? Stations that have a "national" format are cheap to run (a single national PD decides what's played, and sends the list down to the stations,) no jocks (a $6 an hour board op is cheaper than a $15/hour jock,) and probably saves money on music (simply call up TM Century and order X amount of identical discs to outfit each station...surely getting a price break in the process.) And if you invent the format internally, there's no license fee (like with Jack.)
So is this the future? Or just CBS? And, in the process of making things cheap, why aren't they voicetracking the jocked stations?
Are we seeing a pattern here? Stations that have a "national" format are cheap to run (a single national PD decides what's played, and sends the list down to the stations,) no jocks (a $6 an hour board op is cheaper than a $15/hour jock,) and probably saves money on music (simply call up TM Century and order X amount of identical discs to outfit each station...surely getting a price break in the process.) And if you invent the format internally, there's no license fee (like with Jack.)
So is this the future? Or just CBS? And, in the process of making things cheap, why aren't they voicetracking the jocked stations?