cb@hlwpc.UUCP (Carl Blesch) (07/16/85)
> > I heard one of the local DJs mention that all their music was really on > > cartridges, no "Discs" at all. How common is this becomming? > > The amount of music put on "carts" is determined by how tight their > play list is. If they are playing mostly new "hits" then each song > is probably sitting in an auto-cueing loop cartridge (cart). *** REPLACE THIS record WITH YOUR cartridge *** A relative who worked at a radio station told me that the choice was often dictated by the labor union situation at the radio station. At heavily unionized stations, you needed three people if you were going to spin records -- a d.j. to spin the records, an announcer to announce the tunes, and an engineer to do cartridges (for commercials, station i.d.'s, and everything else an engineer does). To eliminate one body, these heavily unionized stations put all their music on carts, which the engineer handles, and presto -- two bodies -- announcer and engineer. At less heavily unionized stations or non-union stations, the announcer could spin the discs. Carl Blesch