Seattle observations

[davideduardo]

I don't think most listeners care about artist seperation with parts of other artist songs. 99.9% don't care. The .01 are proberly working or have worked in radio, or extreme listeners. Radio people falsely think listeners care about such things. They don't.

The reason for artist protection is that artists each have a style and sound, and having too many very similar songs close together is perceived as "repetition" and I have seen that over and over in one-on-one perceptual research.

In fact, is a particular artist is not a listener´s favorite, playing them too close is often perceived as "repeat the same song way to often".

 

[Kelly A]

The reason for artist protection is that artists each have a style and sound, and having too many very similar songs close together is perceived as "repetition" and I have seen that over and over in one-on-one perceptual research.

In fact, is a particular artist is not a listener´s favorite, playing them too close is often perceived as "repeat the same song way to often".

Yeah Seatown's comment surprised me, considering he programmed a couple stations back in the day.

 

[seatownmedia]

While my percentages were exxagerated, I stand by my post. My feeling on this has evolved since I programmed stations. Of course you do artist seperation because that makes a station sound even. My point is most listeners don't care. And by most, it could 55-45%, or 65-35%.

 

[davideduardo]

While my percentages were exxagerated, I stand by my post. My feeling on this has evolved since I programmed stations. Of course you do artist seperation because that makes a station sound even. My point is most listeners don't care. And by most, it could 55-45%, or 65-35%.

This is similar to the "they play the songs too often" comment which actually means "I hear songs I don't like".

In some current formats, the way new songs are "dropped"... sometimes one a month... stations have trouble avoiding three or four an hour, particularly if you include collaboration songs. If a listener is not a huge partisan of an artist that gets lots of plays, this is very dangerous and reduces TSL.

This particularly effects hip hop, urban, CHR and the Hispanic equivalents.

 

[Rock 100.7]

I'm wondering of Bob is the guy programming that station in Eastern WA that I heard last week.

Not to divert the thread, but do you remember what town you were driving through?

Kelly, I was listening to streams. I believe it was either in Wenatchee or Walla Walla

 

[seatownmedia]

Wenatchee, Walla Walla. Two great city names coming from Native American tribes. But totally different. Wenatchee is the furthest WA City that still connects with western WA. Walla Walla tends to connect more with eastern Oregon, though their media is from Washington as most in Tricities signals.