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| From | "Jaimie Vernon" <bullseyecanada@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Sad day for NYC radio |
| Date | Mon, 06 Jun 2005 00:18:10 -0400 |
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At Date: Sat, 4 Jun 2005 15:48:51 Will wrote:
>Is the Jack format anything like the Bob format...the "we play anything, as
>long as it's been played to death on some other station at some point"
>format...?
Not that it makes any difference....but BOB stands for "Best Of The Best" --
which was a decision by a bunch of suits in a Clear Channel office somewhere
who decided that playing the seventeen Top-40 hits by The Eagles was just
too damn time-consuming and taxing for their listeners....so the band's play
list gets narrowed down to their all-time *best* of 5 or 6 songs. Now, do
that to ALL acts with more than a dozen hits and you've got BOB in a
nutshell.
The JACK format, meanwhile, takes the premise that all the discarded Top40
by these acts *is* valid, as well as ALL the one-hit wonders, all the
incidental soundtrack songs, all the fluke novelty songs, mixed together
from three separate decades and totalling nearly 3500 songs should be set on
rinse and repeat until even these lesser-heard songs become quickly burned
out.
Jaimie Vernon,
President, Bullseye Records
"Not Suing Our Customers Since 1985!!"
http://www.bullseyecanada.com
Author, Canadian Pop Music Encyclopedia
http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/Pop_Encyclopedia/
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