Regarding your playlist software, is that the reason why KZEP and Tragic 105.3 play the same few tired songs from artists, who usually have several just as great songs on the same album? I am not in the radio business, so pardon my ignorance, but I do know that stations, like clubs, have to purchase catalogs from recording companies. How do these catalogs work? Do they only contain a certain number of 'approved' songs from each artist or the entire album,(or CD or whatever they are called now)? As I mentioned previously, there are sometimes a few other songs on the album, besides 'the hit' that gets worn out. These songs never get aired, unless the station plays the entire album late at night, like KZEP. In my experience and opinion, some of these 'non-hits' are much better than 'the hit' that was selected to be 'the hit'. And just who decides and selects those 'hits', usually even before they are even aired, similar to all those one episode sit-coms that come out in the fall, claiming to be 'a hit with audiences', only never to be seen again? How can it already be 'a hit with audiences' if it hasn't even aired yet? Anyway, what happens when a listener calls in a request for one of these 'non-hits'? I think that free, over the air, analog radio would be much more enjoyable, listenable and maybe even profitable, if they played more variety, in their respective formats, instead of relying on the corporate, cookie-cutter, one size fits all, bean-rationing selections with the arrogant business philosophy 'that they'll have to listen and have to like whatever we decide play!'
