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[Carl Edlund Anderson]

>>>> I used to request "The Red and The Black".  After a few calls the DJ
>>>> told me that they were not going to play it because "it was not a radio
>>>> song".  I asked him what the hell that meant, but he couldn't give me a
>>>> good answer.
>>>
>>> It likely was supposed to mean something like "nobody cares about
>>> that song except BOC fans"... :-o
>
> Which also means, "we only take requests of songs that have been played
> regularly on the radio in the past, because our listeners would never
> want to listen to something 'original'".

I would have assumed it meant: "That's not our approved list of what
we're supposed to play."  I have always assumed -- probably naively and
idealistically -- that DJs are often pretty cool music fans and
accordingly frustrated with the lameness of the format programming that
they get stiffed with (but that having a job toeing the line as a
corporate stooge DJ beats being a penniless deadbeat booted off the
station for playing anything unauthorized).

But then that may just be my naïveté and idealism shining through :)

Cheers,
Carl

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Carl Edlund Anderson
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