10 Minute Questions

1. What is Music Programming? - Music programming is the deliberate planning of songs to play for a specific audience on the radio.
2. What is a station Format? - Station Format is the genre of the music the station plays.
3. Please give an example of 2 Radio stations. the format and an example of 2 tracks - Heart Hot Adult Contempory; Adele Someone like you & Phil Collins In the air tonight, Gold Classic Hits; Beach boys Wouldn't it be nice & Small faces Itchycoo park
4. An ABC playlist? - An ABC playlist is a Primary playlist and two back up playlists created in order of popularity; A would be the primary with the most popular songs, B would be a back up with less popular songs and C would have the least popular songs/artists on it.
5. Explain how the choice of music would affect profits of a commercial radio station? - If a commercial radio decided to play something that wasn't popular with their audience it could lose them a lot of listeners and would cause them to lose profit.
6. Explain some techniques in music - Producers use many techniques to keep their listeners interested; One of them is called 'Hammocking' this just they put a solid hit either side of a new song , they do this to make sure the new song is heard and their listeners won't get bored and turn off the station. Another technique is called 'Segue', this is when tracks are played back-to-back with no interruptions.