oldies76 said:
What about the songs that WCBS plays at times during the day, all 7 days, during popular dayparts, that are not part of the "regular" playlist and are not part of specialty shows & countdowns.. These are the "above & beyond" songs I'm talking about....the extras. Browsing through CBS's "songs played list", you'll see a quite a few of those everyday, especially afternoons and evenings. How do we count and categorize those songs?? If they are counted, then CBS's total playlist is either equal to KRTH's or even slightly more, weekly.
You do not get that I took every single song played by each station all week. Every one of them, by hour and minute from the real time log on MediaBase, and then I removed all the songs in the specialty show hours so what I have is every song played outside the specialty shows.
You don't understand the terms very well, so here goes: Library is every song eligible to play sometime. The library is organized in categories. Categories are put on clocks. The regular play categories play all week except specialty shows. The specialty show categories do not play in the day in and day out regular clocks. Some regular category songs are dayparted, and may not play in certain hours due to tempo, age, etc.
MediaBase has an aural fingerprint of nearly every song that could be played on the radio. Their receivers listen 24/7 to nearly 2000 stations and they match the songs on the radio with the fingerprint, so the can tell instantly the exact name and title of nearly every song.
As I said, I took the MediaBase lists for KRTH and WCBS and stripped the specialty hours. I then sorted by artist and title and removed duplicats. I ended up with the non-specialty show regular play songs for a week for each.
And remember too David, since WCBS does air more specials daily and on weekends than KRTH, the actual airtime availability for these playlisted songs would be less than KRTH. So that gives KRTH an unfair advantage to the actual total count of playlisted songs.
The average CBS song plays 3.3 times a week. If it misses another spin in the specialty show shifts, it still got played several other times. A third of the regular category library´plays 4 to 6 times a week on CBS, so all that the specialty shows do is slow down the rotations a bit.
So yes, KRTH may rotate more (non-specialty) songs than WCBS. This is because, KRTH has more time weekly, to air them in the first place, since they have very little specialty shows.
It does not work that way. Most of the songs on both stations get over 3 spins, so the specialty shows just slow the rotations a bit.
Just as an example, I work with 10 classic hits stations, and there is not a song in the regular categories (11 categories, by the way) that does not spin twice a week, even though our base library is over 900 songs... not including specialty shows and fill songs.
