It is an odd change. Not that I listen to KFSR all the time, but from everything I've heard...it seems like they're trying to put some rules in place to give things a more professional feel, and that's good. I remember when I was a DJ, and this was years ago, we had a schedule of what to play. There was a certain number of new track, a certain number of heavy rotation tracks, local stuff, etc, that we had to play every hour. And that's acceptable, I think. But it's important that the station keeps that low-fi feel, that's college radio's trademark. And I have heard Frank on the air talking about how KFSR is 'better' that those 'other guys.' A reference to 104, I'm sure.
Yeah yeah. What you just described was always the basic structure up till now. Three from the massive rack, three from the heavy rack, and one or more local artist every hour. Assuming a song is usually 3-4 minutes long, that's about thirty minutes of 'required' material...making a good down the middle split, where the other half an hours worth of stuff is DJ choice or requests. That worked just dandy, and allowing the personal tastes of each DJ to seep into the playlist was essential to keeping up the practice of giving listeners an eclectic variety that isn't found elsewhere. Otherwise, every DJ is essentially playing the same set, ala "real" radio. The measly 5% that they're giving us now is obviously just a courtesy thing. It says they'd like to get rid of the old system COMPLETELY but don't want everybody to go totally apeshit and quit. They've been real smooth about easing into this gradually, hoping we won't notice. Now they've finally put things into high gear though, and the shift is no longer vague
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