From: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org (basia-digest) To: basia-digest@smoe.org Subject: basia-digest V4 #164 Reply-To: basia@smoe.org Sender: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-basia-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "basia-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. basia-digest Friday, August 13 1999 Volume 04 : Number 164 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Spirit of Radio (was Watch out, a newbie) ["Brian Cundieff" Subject: Re: Spirit of Radio (was Watch out, a newbie) From: Leslie Brown Date: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 2:21 AM >> I wish they'd let the DJs program their own music. >> We'd get better variety. > >There was a commercial station out here a few years >ago that was like that...which was sweet as hell >because one DJ was a Basia fan who went in deep on the >albums and played some Matt Bianco cuts (!!!) I was a volunteer DJ at my first college's radio station for about six months. Except for the broad category of the shift (Jazz, Alternative, World-Beat, etc.) we all had pretty much total creative control over our own time. I don't know if this is standard practice, but at WFIT all of our CD cases had a little chart on them showing which tracks had been played, when, and how many times. It was always kind of a special thrill for me to find some great piece of music that had been overlooked for five years. Almost every week, I'd play something that had never been heard on that station before. Naturally, it was easy to do with Basia/Matt Bianco. >R.I.P.! Figures. Did it go out of business or change format? That's what I really hate. Why can't a good business (radio station, TV series, whatever) be happy with its own niche? It's better to be number five or six in a market (as long as you're in the black) than to try to be number one and end up dead. >You should here the sound bites they play on the >station here (Detroit) of people gushing about the >so-called smooth jazz they hear on 98.7. Makes a great >laxative. A few months ago, I saw a commercial with Teri Garr promoting one of my home town's "Light Rock" stations. God, I hope I never get that lame. - -Brian* ------------------------------ End of basia-digest V4 #164 ***************************