Re: Automation At Its Finest! -- American Top 40: The Countdown of the Century

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Date Posted: 23:41:46 11/17/02 Sun
Author: Helmut Brandstetter
Subject: Re: Automation At Its Finest!
In reply to: Scott Lakefield 's message, "Re: Automation At Its Finest!" on 19:23:44 11/16/02 Sat

>While I've never heard quite so extreme an example of
>high-ranking songs in the countdown being played
>shortly after the countdown ends, this has happened
>plenty on Z100 in NYC. They often would play one of
>the songs in the top 5 or 6 of "Casey's Top 40" (and
>later AT40) within about a half hour of the show
>ending.
>
>I think what happens is it is a matter of playlists.
>The station has their set playlists, which they
>temporarily suspend to play the countdown. Then, when
>the countdown is over, they resume the playlist from
>the point that they broke off it to play the
>countdown. So, they'd stand a pretty good chance of
>repeating a high-ranking countdown song soon after the
>countdown ended.
>
>However, playing the #1 song immediately following the
>countdown is one I haven't heard of before! But
>perhaps it was a statistical inevitability?
>
>Just some thoughts...
>
>Scott :)

Have simular experiences with almost every station I had listen to CT40/AT40/AT20 during the past 2 decades. It was the same with streaming stations from the US or Canada as well as stations from Europe.
The closest repeats I've heard recently might be the N�2 song right after the show or N�1 as second play after the show.
I've also recognized songs played right before the show and again in the lower part of the Top 40.

This all seems to be a problem especially since computers took over in the mid 90's and place the songs in order for
airplay.
Others than that nobody at a station cares what's in the Countdown Show in detail. It's just a programme block they use ... we all know about mixing up segments or hours.
Most times the air personal or technical engineer is changing during the 4 hour run of the show. So host of the following programme has no idea what was played 30 minutes before, since he just came in.

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