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No Hits, All the Time


Re: What does "hits" mean? It's no more hits now!!!

Your idea of a hit isn't the same as music radio's idea of a hit. That's the whole point. You might find a lot more "hits" on WFUV than on commercial music radio, if that's the way you see things. A hit on radio is one that demonstrates audience popularity as opposed to esthetic power.

That's the irony about mass-market music radio: it's hardly about music at all, anymore! It's primarily about advertising dollars, with music just a tool to achieve that goal.

-- Dan Krimm
posted 5/4/99