From: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com (edheads-digest) To: edheads-digest@smoe.org Subject: edheads-digest V2 #116 Reply-To: edheads@efohio.com Sender: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Errors-To: owner-edheads-digest@efohio.com Precedence: bulk edheads-digest Wednesday, June 30 1999 Volume 02 : Number 116 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: EFO: radio airplay [Nicole Carlson ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 28 Jun 1999 23:04:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Nicole Carlson Subject: Re: EFO: radio airplay On Mon, 28 Jun 1999, Berkeley Bush wrote: > When I got a boardtape of Woman of Faith I played it on air when I worked > at a station. Call & request it b/c it does make a difference. Most > stations rate that kind of thing. Doesn't this assume that the stations have the album/single in question? As I understand it (read: probably not well, so the deejays in the crowd (Berkeley, Cos...) are welcome to jump in and set me straight), record labels send out advance copies of albums/singles/promos/whatever to radio stations. But EFO are self-published and probably can't afford to send albums to all estimated 80 gazillion radio stations in North America, or even to X percent of them. The only station I listen to (and the only station YOU would listen to, if you lived in the godforsaken radio wasteland[1] of California's Central Valley), KDVS (90.3 FM, 5000 watts of free-form alternative radio broadcasting out of Davis), has _Big Noise_ and nothing else[2]. All the other self-published bands I can think of offhand (The Paperboys, Annwn, Susan Werner, Rockapella...) have similar rates of representation in KDVS's archives. My point--and I do have one--is that, as I see it, calling up radio stations to request songs probably does little good unless the station has the album. Smaller radio stations probably can't afford to purchase random stuff, and larger radio stations probably get too many requests for them to fulfill all of them. - --nicole the "Hey, Mr. DJ, I thought you said we had a deal!" wonder nerd [1] Three formats: urban/hip-hop, talk, and Spanish language. EFO loves to taunt us every time they tour here by telling us how great the stations on the coast are, but those signals don't make it over the mountains. [2] I've determined this by a crafty stratagem of requesting stuff and seeing what gets played. [3] [3] I think they're starting to recognize me by now. *** "A billion here, a billion there... pretty soon you're talking about real money!"--my software engineering professor, on cost control Visit Nicolopolis! http://wwwcsif.cs.ucdavis.edu/~carlsonn nmcarlson@ucdavis.edu ana.ng@tmbg.org ncarlson@mail.arc.nasa.gov ------------------------------ End of edheads-digest V2 #116 *****************************