Recently I spoke to the broadcasters who attended my teaching seminar at the Conclave in Minneapolis that young listeners want to hear new music -- and that they wished that djs would play their own music.
This corporate record list stuff -- the fabric that runs through all of us -- is overrated.
We know what's best, right?
The playlist must be controlled by a program director. After all, ratings are a factor, aren't they? And what insures against payola like a program director in charge of the playlist?
While radio was out regionalizing and nationalizing its music, the next generation won control of today's&hellip
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