Listeners Irate - Can you beleive this?

[DanStat]

"Angry calls flooded a Charlotte, N.C., radio station after it played "Another One Bites the Dust" following a report on the recent sniper killing of a bus driver. The executive producer of WRFX-FM's "John Boy & Billy" said the unfortunate choice of songs was unintentional. . . . Jeannette Walls The Scoop in MSNBC Living." - TV SPY

Can you beleive this? I don't beleive this was unintentional!

How insensitive!

 

[Fievel]

Originally posted by disneyprep50321
"Angry calls flooded a Charlotte, N.C., radio station after it played "Another One Bites the Dust" following a report on the recent sniper killing of a bus driver. The executive producer of WRFX-FM's "John Boy & Billy" said the unfortunate choice of songs was unintentional. . . . Jeannette Walls The Scoop in MSNBC Living." - TV SPY

Can you beleive this? I don't beleive this was unintentional!

How insensitive!

I"m probably sure it was....most radio stations set up computers with play lists for hours in advance. (ever wonder why that request takes so long to get played?) It probably was the next song up.

 

[DMC-12]

Re: Re: Listeners Irate - Can you beleive this?

Originally posted by Fievel
I"m probably sure it was....most radio stations set up computers with play lists for hours in advance. (ever wonder why that request takes so long to get played?) It probably was the next song up.

Fievel is Right.. go to www.scottstudios.com and that is a system that is used thru out the industry...I was forced to learn to use that automation.... the play lists are done at least 24hrs in advance now...then the songs are merged with the commericals...then it is all uploaded to the on air studio.

 

[Yellow Shoes]

Forget what you saw on WKRP in Cincinnati .

Those days are over. DJ's do not program their own music.

 

[DanStat]

1.) I'm not old enough to remember WKRP.

2.) Wouldn't the DJ on then see the song on the logs, and opt to skip it?...if they use that computer system?

 

[DMC-12]

Originally posted by disneyprep50321
1.) I'm not old enough to remember WKRP.

2.) Wouldn't the DJ on then see the song on the logs, and opt to skip it?...if they use that computer system?

Well...they are not really supposed to mess with the line up...and change the programing....Technically yes.... You can drop that song and replace it with another...if the program director has not disabled that option on the system.... who knows....sounds like it was not caught in time

 

[SpongeScott]

it was an unintentional accident (was that redundant?). the play list on the computer was programmed days before and it was coincidence. The station evidently received a lot of calls about it. I got this info a few days ago from The Drudge Report.

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/4346581.htm

 

[prberk]

John Boy and Billy

Unfortunately, most of the posts on this thread are right. Many stations today use computers for the playlists. Often the stations are also unmanned.

The John Boy and Billy show is especially interesting here, because they are syndicated in at least two formats, as I understand things: country and classic rock. Their banter is equally suitable to both. So, I have read that some markets hear JB&B with country music or Southern rock, while others hear classic rock. The banter and features in between are either timed or recorded, with the music selected and timed to fit! It's crazy.

If you are lucky, you live in a town that still has at least a few locally-produced, DJ-run shows. Sometimes they are on AM now, and if you give them a chance (and the music suits your taste) you will fall in love with radio again. Often these stations will introduce you to something that hasn't been programmed on the computer and played 400 times already this week.

If you like live, acoustic, and traditional country music, for example, you may want to try my favorite: WSM, AM 650, out of Nashville. It can be heard in most of the Eastern USA after dark, especially in winter. It is the station that put Nashville and country on the map (the one that introduced the world to Hank Williams, and who still hosts the Grand Ole Opry every Friday and Saturday night LIVE), and it is definitely a breath of fresh air from the computer-driven stations. They have a computer, but the DJs tell it what to do, and don't mind changing things around and even letting artists drop in to play live in studio. [You can listen live, if you wish, at www.wsmonline.com .] I have no affiliation with them. I just feel strongly about what has happened to commercial radio.

So, you were right to notice the mistake, but JB&B probably didn't even know what was being played, and that is a shame. Please write your station. Also, try out some smaller, more or independent stations. It will continue to be this way unless we support real radio, or voice our opinions.

 

[JuniorTOT]

Most radio stations actually use the same playlist for quite a few days out of the week, with just a few songs varied, so this was probably unintentional, plus, a professional station would hardly want to stop the song even if they realized the connection with the song and the crash.

 

[Wilson]

The John Boy and Billy show is especially interesting here, because they are syndicated in at least two formats, as I understand things: country and classic rock. Their banter is equally suitable to both. So, I have read that some markets hear JB&B with country music or Southern rock, while others hear classic rock.

In my area, we get John Boy & Billy on the Oldies station. It just doesn't quite fit.

 

[MobileBadBoy]

Oh no, let's shut down the airwaves!

The station here that runs JB&B plays that song all the time.

It's like when they tried to pull 100's of songs after 9/11, because the song might mention something with the slightest relation to war, or political issues (ie: pulling every Rage Against The Machine song). People need to quit being so freakin sensitive.

 

[DanStat]

Originally posted by MobileBadBoy
Oh no, let's shut down the airwaves!

The station here that runs JB&B plays that song all the time.

It's like when they tried to pull 100's of songs after 9/11, because the song might mention something with the slightest relation to war, or political issues (ie: pulling every Rage Against The Machine song). People need to quit being so freakin sensitive.

First off, no one was suggesting shutting down the air waves. I don't appreciate your sarcastic comments, and I don't think they're funny!

Let's say one of your family members was shot by the sniper. I'm sure you'd be estatic to hear "Another One Bites the Dust". Have some sort of compassion.

You're right, perberk...the computer selects songs of equal length to fill the breaks inbetween JB&B.

 

[Fievel]

I agree....at times people get overly sensitive. I personally didn't agree with the pulling of certain songs after 9/11 just because they had words like "airplane" "speed" or anything to do with death or dying.

I can agree that it's an unfortunate circumstance and once the radio station noticed their mistake and admitted it, then I think it should be the end of the discussion. Was anybody permanently scarred by this? Probably not.

Maybe it's the fact that people have stopped thinking for themselves and let outside variables (like songs) dictate their lives. Sad in a way, yes, but it's true. The same media wouldn't play "Leaving on a jet plane" but they would give grizzly accounts of the actual events. I think this whole "over-sensitivity" thing has gone over the top and needs to stop.

 

[The Mom]

I can understand the listeners' initial reaction. I also would have thought that someone had purposely chosen that particular song. I suspect that most people who got upset did not hear the apology and explanation.

Is this any worse than jumping to the conclusion that the woman who was burned by the McDonald's coffee was some sort of idiot who was just looking for quick money because of a little sunburn type injury? Most people only heard the initial story...not the actual trial report. Do I think the people who formed that opinion are insensitive or silly? Of course not! They just reacted to the information they had on hand...just like the radio listeners.

I know that I've often been guilty of forming an opinion with limited information...it's a very human thing to do. I also know that I can become hypersensitive about things that are affecting me personally, and overeact to innocent comments. We all do.

 

[DanStat]

Hey Marica, this thread is in my "message".

 

[MobileBadBoy]

Originally posted by disneyprep50321
First off, no one was suggesting shutting down the air waves. I don't appreciate your sarcastic comments, and I don't think they're funny!

Let's say one of your family members was shot by the sniper. I'm sure you'd be estatic to hear "Another One Bites the Dust". Have some sort of compassion.

Sorry, a song that came out decades before this sniper started shooting people is not going to effect me, regardless if someone I know got shot or not. Had the song been composed after this had happened, I'd have a different opinion.

And no one said I was referring to your comment, I could have been commenting on the little TV-SPY piece you spoke of. Again, so sensitive. It's a song.