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Radio Stations - a bit of a rant

Does Radio stations have a very small playlist or are they just trying to promote certain songs? I must have heard the same track at least 4 times during the day and it's boring listening to the same track all the time.

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  • Where I work Smooth radio is on all day everyday.
    It really is Ground hog day a my place.
  • fatkit
    fatkit Posts: 294
    most of UK commercial radio is shite.....Internet stations offer more choice
  • DiscoCAFC
    DiscoCAFC Posts: 1,762
    fatkit said:

    most of UK commercial radio is shite.....Internet stations offer more choice

    Yeah.

    I listen to a station on the internet called heartbeat fm. No talking - just music and the playlist is huge!
  • BIG_ROB
    BIG_ROB Posts: 5,274
    Magic FM killed I Wanna Go Home by Michael Bubble
  • Bedsaddick
    Bedsaddick Posts: 24,769
    Heart - probebly the worst radio station I have ever heard.
  • Absurdistan
    Absurdistan Posts: 8,024
    does or do?
  • buckshee
    buckshee Posts: 7,868
    Fella I work with listens to crapitol in his van. Last summer I had to work with him for a week. Made me remember how bad that station is , they played that Robin Thick song TWICE in the same show!
  • We only have one english language radio station out here........and its wank.
    Think yourselves lucky.
  • Listen to absolute...no repeated songs from 10-5...decent tunes too
  • We only have one english language radio station out here........and its wank.
    Think yourselves lucky.

    Is that wank fm or wank am?

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  • McBobbin
    McBobbin Posts: 12,052
    6 music is quite varied if up its own aris at times
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757

    Heart - probebly the worst radio station I have ever heard.

    Heart is to radio what MK Dons is to football

  • EastTerrace
    EastTerrace Posts: 3,961

    Listen to absolute...no repeated songs from 10-5...decent tunes too

    We listen in work sometimes, trouble is they play all the same stuff the next day. Also the demographic is 40-60 year old men (which I am, but listening to Paul Weller and Nickelback cock rock isn't really me).
  • Salad
    Salad Posts: 10,189
    Absolute play virtually the same stuff every day.
    6 music is the most varied, although they do have playlists too.
  • RedPanda
    RedPanda Posts: 4,990
    In my last job I was plagued by poor music on repeat. On one day I heard Adele 11 times.

    Absolute Radio have a 'no repeat guarantee' but they play the same songs each day. With them you can at least switch between 60s, 80s, classic rock, etc. The best of a bad bunch.
  • Rizzo
    Rizzo Posts: 6,435
    The missus listens to Heart, with their slogan "More music variety". Well if variety consists of playing Robin Thicke, Daft Punk, Gary Barlow, Olly Murs and Katy Perry on a continuous loop then I guess that's accurate.

    I genuinely laughed the other day when they played their More Music Variety jingle after back to back songs by Gary Barlow, Robbie Williams and Take That...

    I listen to Absolute Classic Rock most of the time. Okay you do hear the same songs a lot but at least you don't hear them 7 times a day!
  • Valiantphil
    Valiantphil Posts: 6,411
    Why do radio stations and certain DJ's constantly repeat the name of the radio station ?

    Do thy think we all have goldfish memories ?

    Absolute are the worst offender.
  • It's an Ofcom requirement, usually 15 or 20 minutes.
  • man_at_milletts
    man_at_milletts Posts: 5,620
    edited January 2014
    DiscoCAFC said:

    Does Radio stations have a very small playlist or are they just trying to promote certain songs? I must have heard the same track at least 4 times during the day and it's boring listening to the same track all the time.

    Money, usually. Some stations operate pay to play from musicians/management, while others let their presenters do their own thing. IMO the latter are usually the better stations, but most of the bigger stations will have a playlist the presenters have to adhere to, including ad breaks etc.
  • PopIcon
    PopIcon Posts: 5,970
    Very, very few DJs are allowed to pick their own songs. Literally only a handful on the entire UK network. With the exception of specialist shows.

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  • cafcfan
    cafcfan Posts: 11,201
    edited January 2014

    We only have one english language radio station out here........and its wank.
    Think yourselves lucky.

    Is that wank fm or wank am?
    That does sound like it could be an American radio call sign doesn't it? I've now got a yank DJ's voice in my head saying 'Good Morning from Duhb-uhl-yoo Ay En Kay, Albuquerque's No 1 News Station'

    Anyway surely it would be Wank DAB rather than AM/FM.....
  • golfaddick
    golfaddick Posts: 33,684
    Radio 2 for me - although I usually have to change stations or turn off between 12 & 2 when Jeremy Vine is on as I want to listen to music & not to discussions.

    when Absolute Radio first launched as Virgin in the early 1990's their mantra was that they would play classic album tracks and was a station for 30+ year olds who didn't want to listen to the new stuff being released - but that all changed when they became Absolute
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,438
    Radio stations don't exist to do anything other than play the music they're incentivised to. Since the birth of 'pop' music, there have been radio stations to perpetuate and popularise dross.

    I have never listened to the radio for music and never will.
  • Just listen to radio 4 all the time. Although the Archers get right up my nose.
  • And any questions/answers.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167

    Radio stations don't exist to do anything other than play the music they're incentivised to. Since the birth of 'pop' music, there have been radio stations to perpetuate and popularise dross.

    I have never listened to the radio for music and never will.

    Never?
  • PL54
    PL54 Posts: 10,757

    Radio stations don't exist to do anything other than play the music they're incentivised to. Since the birth of 'pop' music, there have been radio stations to perpetuate and popularise dross.

    I have never listened to the radio for music and never will.

    How do you know if you never listen to them (and never have) ?
  • suzisausage
    suzisausage Posts: 11,502
    edited January 2014
    he said 'for music' he may or may not listen to a radio show for the discussion, news, travel, shipping forecast, a quiz etc, but not specifically for the music.
    I think that's what he means. I get it.
  • Riviera
    Riviera Posts: 8,167
    But before the days of the internet how would you know about new music? NME?

    Radio1 and Capital Radio in the 70's both had excellent DJ's who championed new music and acts. People like Roger Scott, Nicky Horne, John Peel, Andy Peebles and RIchard Skinner to name just a few. Radio was massive in the 70's and 80's before it all went wet. Anyone who has any interest in music must have listened unless they are very young and I think Leroy is at least 40.
  • Leroy Ambrose
    Leroy Ambrose Posts: 14,438
    Ignoring the stupid sniping, clearly 'never listened' was said with some artistic license. If I've been somewhere and the radio has been playing, clearly I don't stick my fingers in my ears, or demand it is turned off. Similarly, I was aware from an early age what radio stations were, and that the music they played was shite. I don't need to constantly listen to them to reaffirm that opinion.

    Why would anyone listen to the music a radio station tells me to listen to, when I can listen to my own music?