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what would be the future of broadcast radio
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I know what I would do...it's an idea I've had rolling around in my head for years.
Now, the premise of this is IF I owned a radio station, which I don't, and from what I've seen of broadcast ownership I don't want to...
I would hire the brightest musician/computer guru/programmer I could sign to a contract to work for me on a one-time basis for a set fee. I would have that person build a semi-intuitive, AI-controlled system to create high-quality, digitally-synthesized music with a random selection of instrumentation, rhythm and meter, which borrows melody and harmony structures from music samples recorded in a database.
Starting with an empty database, I then proceed to fill it with any and all public-domain recordings that I can find either on the internet or from pre-recorded vinyl or shellac sources. I'm talking about all of the old stuff...age doesn't matter, but the source material being in the public domain is crucial.
With a sufficient amount of source material in the database, we instruct the system to generate instrumental selections with lengths between 2:30 and 4:15. When about 2,000 compositions have been generated, I would auditorium test them with an audience of 18-54 females and keep the 1000 best-testing compositions.
I would then set up my own independent publishing house with no relationship to ASCAP, BMI, RIAA or any other such group, through which I would then copyright the compositions.
As a finishing touch, I would add a vocal tag at the end of each composition with an identifying number.
This, then, would be the database from which I would program the station's music. The station would be automated at first, and the system would be structured so that listener requests would be handled automatically by calling the request line and entering the song number. The system would then schedule that song for air, with a minimum song-to-song separation sufficient to keep punch-monkeys from ruining the music flow.
As I fine-tuned the music, I would add personalities solely to provide conversation. They would talk about weather, community events, news, sports, etc...but never about the music. Just let the hows and whys of the music remain a mystique for the audience.
The goal of doing this would be to provide good, audience-attracting music without incurring the regular fees that publishers and artists are demanding. The music would be vaguely familiar, but different enough to hopefully keep listeners tuned in.
There would be a bit of start-up expense, but once on-air, the only music-related expenses would be to produce and test about 400 songs a year, with 200 of those added each year. Every 5 years or so, the whole on-air library would be tested again, with the top 1,000 of those being retained while the process begins again.
Anyway, that's what I would do...and hope that it becomes a monster hit. If 200-300 stations copied the concept, we would see a new diversity in music on the radio and the artists who are pushing the royalty tax would REALLY starve to death!
Later....
Matt Smith
WGSR-TV
Now, the premise of this is IF I owned a radio station, which I don't, and from what I've seen of broadcast ownership I don't want to...
I would hire the brightest musician/computer guru/programmer I could sign to a contract to work for me on a one-time basis for a set fee. I would have that person build a semi-intuitive, AI-controlled system to create high-quality, digitally-synthesized music with a random selection of instrumentation, rhythm and meter, which borrows melody and harmony structures from music samples recorded in a database.
Starting with an empty database, I then proceed to fill it with any and all public-domain recordings that I can find either on the internet or from pre-recorded vinyl or shellac sources. I'm talking about all of the old stuff...age doesn't matter, but the source material being in the public domain is crucial.
With a sufficient amount of source material in the database, we instruct the system to generate instrumental selections with lengths between 2:30 and 4:15. When about 2,000 compositions have been generated, I would auditorium test them with an audience of 18-54 females and keep the 1000 best-testing compositions.
I would then set up my own independent publishing house with no relationship to ASCAP, BMI, RIAA or any other such group, through which I would then copyright the compositions.
As a finishing touch, I would add a vocal tag at the end of each composition with an identifying number.
This, then, would be the database from which I would program the station's music. The station would be automated at first, and the system would be structured so that listener requests would be handled automatically by calling the request line and entering the song number. The system would then schedule that song for air, with a minimum song-to-song separation sufficient to keep punch-monkeys from ruining the music flow.
As I fine-tuned the music, I would add personalities solely to provide conversation. They would talk about weather, community events, news, sports, etc...but never about the music. Just let the hows and whys of the music remain a mystique for the audience.
The goal of doing this would be to provide good, audience-attracting music without incurring the regular fees that publishers and artists are demanding. The music would be vaguely familiar, but different enough to hopefully keep listeners tuned in.
There would be a bit of start-up expense, but once on-air, the only music-related expenses would be to produce and test about 400 songs a year, with 200 of those added each year. Every 5 years or so, the whole on-air library would be tested again, with the top 1,000 of those being retained while the process begins again.
Anyway, that's what I would do...and hope that it becomes a monster hit. If 200-300 stations copied the concept, we would see a new diversity in music on the radio and the artists who are pushing the royalty tax would REALLY starve to death!
Later....
Matt Smith
WGSR-TV
that's a very interesting idea, i have listen to internet radio for sometime where i can hear music they used to play on the radio and some songs that never did played that sounds good. i listen to classic rock and some classic pop from 50's to 80's, very little of 90's. classic country from 50's to 80's.
Matt Smith said:
The idea is at least novel until you got to the music testing part... you can't test unknown music... if you could, record companies would not release 10 to 20 stiffs for every hit.
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dbdigital
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I was talking to a friend of mine who works for a major radio conglomerate cluster ("clear jazeera" he calls it) about the matter of radio stations possibly paying performance royalties and he was telling me that the topic was briefly discussed at a meeting he attended. The solution, if it came about, was to simply pass the costs on to advertisers along with a slightly heavier spot load and possibly adding more news (which, of course, means fewer songs per hour). Apparently adlets (those :05 or less spots) are doing well for them and they may add more of those.
But, according to Mercury Research, radio audiences are turned off by advertising, so will a heavier spot load cause more listeners to turn off "free" terrestrial radio and turn on satellite or web radio? Only time will tell.
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But, according to Mercury Research, radio audiences are turned off by advertising, so will a heavier spot load cause more listeners to turn off "free" terrestrial radio and turn on satellite or web radio? Only time will tell.
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