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Hey all, Fume. Arg. Spit. Gurgle. The music radio stations here do what they call "45-minute music sets", where they play 45 minutes of music followe dby 15 minutes (!) of commercials. Now, while the DJ will never cut in to tell you what you've been (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yes, and Yes. Been that way for 20 years in some markets. (...) c /fooz/fus/ and it's not a mean-time to be playing fusball, it's a joyous-time. I have a table at home and so does my brother-in-law. Are you any good? I have a ferocious 5 man (...) (25 years ago, 9-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Larry Pieniazek wrote:c /fooz/fus/ and it's not a mean-time to be playing fusball, it's a (...) I'd *love* to see you try that on me;-) I grew up with a table and am not to shabby myself. Used to just shoot for hours, working on my push and pulls. (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Had the same experience with a song a while ago. Catchy tune. Had to call the DJ after I'd heard parts of it 4 times. I could only remember one catch phrase "I'm all out of faith....lying naked on the floor"-- he had no idea what I was (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Uh, Mr. Sproat.. your mic is on. :) (...) Gak! Sounds like the corporate newbies have taken over (again). While a certain amount of predictability is nice for listeners, who knows if they'll tune back in once the commercial stopset is over? It (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Natalie Imbruglia, "Torn." Oddly enough, even though it's only been out for the last year, people are already calling her a "One-Hit Wonder." See Entertainment Weekly's top-100 moments in music issue--this is the same poll page that claims (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Tom McDonald wrote in message ... (...) My "ad breaks" consist largely of "WinAmp - it really whips the llamas ass" "DJ no ego - back to the music" and "RDU - a radio station". All of which are MP3s that I've scrounged or recorded for my own (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Dang. I was reading about this stuff, just the other week. Seems like it all boiled down to this: if they announce the songs ahead of time, that gives the listener the power to change the station if they aren't interested. And announcements (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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I'm sensing we need to play sometime this week or next before I leave MSP for good. So far I have not found any good places to play, though. Let's talk offline. (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Tom McDonald wrote: <snip. I love it when an expert gets wound up on stuff, you learn a lot of neat stuff about the ins and outs of a particular biz. Thanks, Tom!> (...) Is that a word? (URL) up short. But it suggests fume, came, come, and cute (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Sorry. It kinda was a bitch and moan session, but not above everyone's heads I think. I've been noticing that websites are a lot like radio stations. Maybe I should have posted to off-topic.geek - that could include radio geeks, right? I'll (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) <snip> (...) Those that hate dj talking consider all of it boring, so radio folks have no remedy for that. But for someone who didn't catch the name of a song at its beginning and liked it, back announcing is very useful. Optimally, all new (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Even worse is watching an opera on BRAVO cable network. In most cases, they do not identify the production, cast, conductor or even opera house. I took me 2 months to determine this basic info on a performance of Rossini's L'Italiana in (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Once upon a time, (on Thu, 10 Jun 1999 04:46:34 GMT, to be precise!), John Neal uttered the following profundities.... (...) Yet another former "Neighbours" star trying their hand at pop stardom. (25 years ago, 10-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Huh? She can "act", too?! <drool> ;-) Does she have a website as well? -John (...) (25 years ago, 10-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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John Neal wrote (...) That's "can't act either". HTH. Moz (25 years ago, 11-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) That would be annoying. For serious art (as opposed to pop music), I'd expect this information would be very important to a large number of viewers. Weird. Steve (25 years ago, 11-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Once upon a time, (on Thu, 10 Jun 1999 22:57:50 GMT, to be precise!), John Neal uttered the following profundities.... (...) First off, I said she was a star, not that she could act. :o) Didn't watch "Neighbours" much during that time, as I believe (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Thanks for the pointer, I'm sure it will help mine. Now, I will say this to all you detractors. Who cares if she can act OR sing. She's easy on the eyes and that's all that matters. Besides she sings well enough for a pop star. Better than any (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Her CD has some macromedia junk on it that really pushes to have you install AOL (yeah, right). But here are the website addresses: (URL) this one. Its OK. www.bmg-backstage.co.uk/natalie <-- this one is a dead link. Using: (...) (25 years ago, 11-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) BMG has always had a bad online presence. Evidence for the prosecution: In 1995, they had a presence on CompuServe. The customer service contact 'interface' consisted of a line-based text entry system. The customer was responsible for entering (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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Follow-up: I am starting to buy in to the market experiment argument. Up until about a week ago, all the on-air contests were of the "caller number seven" nature. Now all of a sudden, at least five or six radio stations have switched to another (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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(...) Yup. Know your audience before they listen, know your customers before they walk in. "Sign up to win (and see a lot of ads in the process) from your more music, less privacy station, Y104.3! Fill out our entry form (which includes yielding (...) (25 years ago, 14-Jun-99, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
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