ed@DAS.LLNL.GOV (Edward J. Suranyi) (04/24/91)
Today I went to that radio focus group I told you about a couple of weeks ago. I didn't get to personally tell a radio programmer to play more Kate, but it was interesting anyway. First, we filled out a survey about which radio stations we listened to, and what we want from radio stations. Then came the meat: We listened to ten-second snatches of 350 different songs, and rated them on how familiar they were and how much we liked them. This survey was clearly sponsored by KITS; nearly all the songs were ones I'd heard on that station. Yes, they did include Kate: "Running Up That Hill" and "Love And Anger". I gave them both a score of 6 (meaning I was familiar with the song, and it was a favorite). There was a girl sitting next to me, and we got to talking afterwards. Her tastes and mine seemed vaguely similar, so I made the key remark: "I was really glad they included some Kate Bush in this." And she said -- "Yeah! Every time she came up, I wrote '6' right away!" Turned out she's a Kate fan! She said that she's never met a guy who's a Kate fan before! All the other Kate fans she knows (of which there are very few, apparently) are girls. So I said I know lots of guys who are, and I told her about Katemas, and about my enormous collection, and she seemed VERY interested. So we exchanged telephone numbers and, well, things are looking great! I'm SO happy!!!!!!!!!! Ed ed@das.llnl.gov =