I'd also argue that the majority of small market stations are most definitely not run that way. While KLMI may have the benefit of having Paul sitting in a station in a small hamlet in AK, with studios in the same building where he also resides (unless that's changed), with not much else to do but change the playlist when he gets an e-mail alert, that's a very unique set of circumstances to say the least. Most small market stations that are satellite-fed or voice tracked don't have the ability (much less care) to run that way. Most VT'd stations are voiced by a jock who usually does that work for multiple stations, at times to supplement their primary gig and income. Few are monitoring the stations they VT or watching for FB posts from listeners with requests.
Keep in mind as well that many smaller market stations run lean on staff, share an engineer with lots of other stations and as mentioned in handfuls of other discussion threads, may go for hours or days with malfunctioning automation or satellite equipment, poor audio quality or problems with their transmission system, and seemingly no one at the station is monitoring them, even on occasion, to ensure they're on the air and broadcasting as they should be. That in mind, I'm guessing that, outside of maybe mornings when they may have live on-air staff, the automation system runs the music as programmed. In the case of Top40 or even AC stations, chances are if someone makes a request, it's coming up at some point in the relatively near future, anyway. That was the case even when jocks were live 24/7.
