merchant@dartvax.UUCP (Peter Merchant) (05/28/84)
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What is #1? Well, that all depends! From my brief time down at Boston
University, I discovered that WBCN seems to play more towards the collegiate
audience (Boston being a big "college town") and it may be #1 among college
students. The problem with many students, though, is that they forget
that there is a world outside their college dormitories.
As for the tight playlists, it all depends. As I said before, studies
show that the average person listens to the radio for about 20 minutes at
a stretch. In theory, they want to hear their favourite stuff during
those 20 minutes, no? Therefor, by keeping a tight playlist of all of
the average persons "favourite stuff" (ie, Hot 100 chart) when you tune
in for your 20 minute stay while getting dressed in the morning, you are
on odds on favourite to hear SOMETHING you like!
Students tend to hate it because students don't listen to the radio for
just 20 minutes in a row, they listen for three hours in a row while they
are typing that paper. And upon the third repetition of the typical Top 40
song, they are about ready to take a shoe and throw it through the radio.
As for the spill-over between Top 40 and Adult-Contemporary (refered to here
as "Easy Listening" and "Muzak"), some does exist. Though, not everything
is "Easy Listening". I heard Jimmy Buffett's "Brown Eyed Girl" on WROR
when I went down to Boston recently. It's fast, but it's not that loud.
You won't usually hear too much wild guitars on an AC station. That doesn't
make it muzak, either, though. Remember that as-of-late, The Alan Parsons
Project has been doing better on AC stations than on Top 40 stations or
Album Rock stations.
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"Everytime I hear the power in the radio wave, I turn it up all the way!" -- J.S.
Peter Merchantnessus@mit-eddie.UUCP (Doug Alan) (06/02/84)
I don't know where Gregbozo got his figures, but according to Wednesday's or Thursday's Boston Globe the Arbitron (or something like that) scale places WBCN at #1 and the one he claimed to be #1 at #6. Be Ye Moby, For Gregbozo Isn't -- -Doug Alan mit-eddie!nessus Nessus@MIT-MC "What does 'I' mean"?