Unless you’re native, you’ve figured out that “Listener advisory panels” and “request lines” have almost nothing to do with what music you hear on the radio.\u00a0\u00a0 The local program director maintains a playlist of “allowed” songs – perhaps mandated to him by “corporate”.<\/p>\n
Part of the reason for this was the “Payola” problem.\u00a0\u00a0 Record companies would provide money, drugs, prostitutues, etc…\u00a0 to get a program director or disk jockey to play their songs.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Taking away that freedom blocks that incentive [right, sure it does!]<\/p>\n
What if the listeners to a music radio station were able to pick the music being played on their station – a “tug of war” done in real time with listeners fighting for which songs would play next (from a big play list).<\/p>\n
Jelli<\/a>\u00a0 is a mobile device app that is trying to find out.\u00a0\u00a0 The company that makes Jelli owns a radio station in Las Vegas (maybe some others).\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Users of their “App” choose which songs play (the songs have to be within the genre, but the database of available songs is pretty big)<\/p>\n So it looks like maybe 1 or 2 people use the app \ud83d\ude42\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 I definitely don’t understand the business model here.\u00a0\u00a0 There are no ads in the stream.<\/p>\n My guess is if this was widely used, radio stations would tend to the eccentric – the people with “no life” who would spend all day playing tug of war would skew the playlist to the stuff nobody but them wants to hear.\u00a0\u00a0 But I could be wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Unless you’re native, you’ve figured out that “Listener advisory panels” and “request lines” have almost nothing to do with what music you hear on the radio.\u00a0\u00a0 The local program director maintains a playlist of “allowed” songs – perhaps mandated to … Continue reading