Requests and Shows
 

What happens to a request if a show gets in before the request does. For example, if I request a song, and before it plays, Extended Play comes on for three hours, does the request play sometime after Extended Play goes off? or does the request just get deleted?

Re: Requests and Shows
 

The request should be qued up after the show plays.

Tommy

true
 

last week it was a 7 hr difference!

If your request takes more than an hour to play, then one of these things happened:

- There are so many requests that there's just a backup

- The band you requested just played, and your request is being delayed.

- I've deleted the request because it's something that's requested every day multiple times.

- There's a show running, in which case, you could still run into a combo of the above reasons aside from teh show length.

Avian

What's an example of stuff you delete?

Anything requested by Yesspaz.:D

I wish I'd said that!

Mastermind - The Endless Enigma
Van Der Graaf Generator - La Rossa
Genesis - Do the Neurotic


It's seasonal - folks get on a new songs and start requesting it like crazy for awhile, then switch to another song and repeat the process.

In other words, a request driven station manages to fall into a Current/Recurrent/Oldie pattern, just like a commercial station. Perfect! Now it really is "radio."

Songs go in a bell curve:

New - rarely played
Semi-new - Played occasionally
Slightly known - played frequently
"Hit single" - Played all the freaking time
Starting to get old - played frequently
Getting really old - played occasionally
Old - rarely played



Perfect, I'd say let it regulate itself - unless someone has a crush on the same song every day for two weeks.

That's what I'm saying - they request teh same song every day for months.

The SAM software lets me set the playlist like that if I wanted to (based on formula), but it's truly random except for requests or actual DJing.

Avian

Hakuna Matata
 

I for one applaud the elimination of overrequested tunes.

unless it's yours, eh Rick!!!:D

no...
 

I just overpost!

I average about a request a week. As for this week's request, she's not here yet!