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In article <259@imagen.UUCP>, jay@imagen.UUCP (Jay Jaeckel) writes:
> > How about asshole DJ's who yammer into the beginning of a
> > song and start talking again before the song is over.
> > 
> > Tom Frye

  Even more offensive to me are the DJ's who talk up a song but have never
heard it before (and don't have enough sense to check out new music in
advance of their shows) and so don't know how long to talk and find themselves
in the middle of a sentence when the artist starts singing.

> 
> I always thought they did this on purpose so you can't record the record
> off the air so you have to go out and buy it yourself if you want a clean
> copy.  I assume that record companies give (rather than sell) a copy of
> their records to the radio stations to play, so listeners will hear them
> and go out and buy them.  In other words, every record you hear on the radio
> (especially on rock stations) is just an advertisement to go out and buy it.
> 
>                                               -- Jay Jaeckel
>                                               ...{ucbvax,decwrl}!imagen!jay

  Actually, no, they do this to maintain the "rock" sound, or the "am" sound,
or whatever it's being called nowadays, in other words the sound of hype
and action and no dead air.  Sickening, if you ask me (and I've been a DJ).

  Stations USED to get free copies of records and play them for free, but
nowadays they have to pay a fee for playing each record (I think they still
get free copies, but I've been out of the business a while...)  This also
makes me sick, as I've always felt that the artists were the primary
beneficiaries of the extensive airplay, and it doesn't make sense that
the stations should have to PAY for that..... <grumble, grouse>


       Robert Bickford     (rab@well.uucp)
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