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The Sound Offering Listeners a Chance to be a Deejay

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The Sound is offering its listeners two chances to be a deejay for an one-hour show in December, and apparently the rules entail sending a tape or CD of ten songs you would play, but it's unknown if your voice for the songs and commercials in-between will mean much of anything in this contest.

What do you think, bad idea, good idea?
 
emailfailed said:
The Sound is offering its listeners two chances to be a deejay for an one-hour show in December, and apparently the rules entail sending a tape or CD of ten songs you would play, but it's unknown if your voice for the songs and commercials in-between will mean much of anything in this contest.

What do you think, bad idea, good idea?
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The more Cars, Boston, Police, and U2 you can get in your set, the better your chances of winning! And don't go all deep cuts on them, they're looking for "My Best Friends Girl", "Rock 'n' Roll Band", "Every Breath You Take" and "In the Name of Love". Good luck!
 
FM 94/9 in San Diego does something like this every year. They dedicate an entire weekend to have listeners come into the studio and play whatever they want. It's called the "Coup d'etat" weekend. I'm sure it would be an interesting addition as a weekend special, as long as the songs fit the playlist of couse.
 
A Classic Rock station in the Bay Area did a similar thing for a couple of years. I guess it wasn't too memorable, because I can't remember which station. IIRC, the chosen listener of the day pre-recorded his/her intro to 4 or 5 songs, which sometimes included a brief statement about why the song was one of his/her favorites. My memory is that all songs had to be from the station's play list.
 
Lkeller said:
A Classic Rock station in the Bay Area did a similar thing for a couple of years. I guess it wasn't too memorable, because I can't remember which station. IIRC, the chosen listener of the day pre-recorded his/her intro to 4 or 5 songs, which sometimes included a brief statement about why the song was one of his/her favorites. My memory is that all songs had to be from the station's play list.
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Which is exactly why it isn't memorable. Nobody cares why "Every Breath You Take" was the theme of listener X's whirlwind romance 28 years ago and why it will forever hold a special place in his heart, as he spins another disc from the station's 1000 song playlist that everybody knows. They call it Amateur Hour for a reason.

What would be far more interesting is hearing songs that are not on the station's playlist, where the person listening has a chance to get turned onto something cool they didn't know of, or perhaps had forgotten about and rediscovered, by listening to a fellow listener turn them onto it. Now you have one listener creating a positive listening experience for another listener, and both feel a greater appreciation to the station and builds station loyalty from both.

Either way, the program should be on late on a Sunday night where it can't do damage to the station's overall ratings.
 
ChannelFlipper said:

What would be far more interesting is hearing songs that are not on the station's playlist, where the person listening has a chance to get turned onto something cool they didn't know of, or perhaps had forgotten about and rediscovered, by listening to a fellow listener turn them onto it. Now you have one listener creating a positive listening experience for another listener, and both feel a greater appreciation to the station and builds station loyalty from both.
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I guess the conventional wisdom is that anything not on the play list causes people to change stations. Personally, it would encourage me to listen. In the 90s, I used to tune in an otherwise forgettable DJ on KFRC (Oldies) precisely to hear their once an hour feature - a certified hit from the past that was not on the regular play list. Even when it was some rancid old tune (Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks comes to mind), it was fun hearing something different, and recalling the memory. And this was in weekday afternoon drive.
 
ChannelFlipper said:
Either way, the program should be on late on a Sunday night where it can't do damage to the station's overall ratings.
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Lkeller said:
Even when it was some rancid old tune (Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks comes to mind), it was fun hearing something different, and recalling the memory. And this was in weekday afternoon drive.
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So, this is the issue - Sunday evenings for three hours, or 15 minutes a day at 4:30 in the afternoon?

Entertaining people and making money is hard to do, apparently. ::)
 
I mentioned earlier that we did it at KZAP as the Amateur Hour. Cool thing about it was, the host got to pick their own music. It just had to come from the control room library. Not a problem there as we had a large library of rocks greatest albums, lots to choose from and you ended up with an hour that really did not sound like the normal format.
 
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