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During the Thanksgiving day Beatles A-Z on WSCA 106.1
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20101123-ENTERTAIN-101129913
the radio host said, "coming up we'll hear What You’re Doing, When I Get Home, When I’m Sixty-Four, While My Guitar Gently Weeps, Why Don’t We Do it in the Road, Wild Honey Pie, With a Little Help From My Friends, Within You Without You, Words of Love and then we'll get into the Y's."
No complaints here, but how common is it for a host to read, not a played list, but a list of songs coming up.
 
a comprehensive list like that? Only a non-comm like WSCA would do something like that, you tend to loose listeners with naming that many songs in one breath, most would only hear a bunch of words strung together. I would mention 2 or 3 songs coming up, and never the 2 or 3 directly coming up that you're going to play (only front cell the one you're about to play)
 
I recently left a part-time gig in the Boston market (2 1/2 years) for a full time gig in NH but while in Boston, I learned a great technique about broadcasting. My program director, who is simply brilliant, explained to me the reasons why you should NOT mention songs coming up. The number one reason to NOT mention songs coming up is because if it's a song that a listener doesn't like, that listener is GONE!!! I think this is especially important in markets that now use PPM. I used to use that as a crutch all the time when looking for something to say for a quick break but that is NOT compelling content whatsoever. If anything, it alienates a segment of your audience when it's a song they don't like. I have to admit though, now that I've left that Boston station, I have found myself doing it at the NH station. I have to be a little more disciplined when it comes to that.
 
I wouldn't mention too many songs coming up, but I certainly don't shy away from it altogether. Presumably, your listeners like the music you play (overall).
If you're afraid your audience will bail out at the mere mention of the Rolling Stones, should you be playing them?
 
Backselling the last music set is one thing, but running down a long list of songs coming up is definitely overkill. Floyd Wright at WDRC-FM in Hartford, CT is consistently creative at teasing the next song by giving an interesting little fact about it going into a spot break. He doesn't mention the title/artist and gives the listener another reason to stay tuned and find out what song or artist he's talking about. It puts a new spin on a song you may have heard dozens of times before.
 
I thought there was a provision in the DMCA that prevented disclosing the names of specific songs " coming up next". I have not heard specific songs mentioned in forever, just artists.
If they stream, they are subject to DCMA right?

"DJs are now prohibited from forwardly announcing song titles, broadcasting more than three songs from the same album or four songs from the same artist in a three−hour period, making archived webcasts of their shows available online for longer than two weeks and making those webcasts available for download"
 
MRBIboredop said:
"DJs are now prohibited from forwardly announcing song titles, broadcasting more than three songs from the same album or four songs from the same artist in a three−hour period
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This is usually avoided on the commercial stations by the music scheduler, as for the DMCA, doesn't it also state whoever's streaming must provide a "buy it now" kind of option for the person listening to buy the album/song they're listening to, and also the stream must show artist/song/album info...
 
One of the best lines in radio was Bwana Johnny on WWDJ just outside NYC in the early 70's - "Coming up next hour - 60 minutes!"
 
on-air-in-NH said:
I recently left a part-time gig in the Boston market (2 1/2 years) for a full time gig in NH but while in Boston, I learned a great technique about broadcasting. My program director, who is simply brilliant, explained to me the reasons why you should NOT mention songs coming up. The number one reason to NOT mention songs coming up is because if it's a song that a listener doesn't like, that listener is GONE!!!
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What program director said this?
 
At the college station where I am in the Boston area our webstream does have a buy it now option for songs etc

As for
>>teasing the next song by giving an interesting little fact about it going into a spot break

that sure sounds like what Casey Kasem would do on American Top 40: "Coming up, we'll have
the new hit song by an artist who quit his job as a police officer, but wait till you hear why he
quit. Details, coming up!" (jingle: "The hits from coast to coast!")
 
raccoonradio said:
At the college station where I am in the Boston area our webstream does have a buy it now option for songs etc

As for
>>teasing the next song by giving an interesting little fact about it going into a spot break

that sure sounds like what Casey Kasem would do on American Top 40: "Coming up, we'll have
the new hit song by an artist who quit his job as a police officer, but wait till you hear why he
quit. Details, coming up!" (jingle: "The hits from coast to coast!")
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Exactly. It's not that hard to do. Just takes a little effort, (i.e., show prep) and thinking ahead.
 
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