We’ve now ironed out the gremlins in the playout system, and from tonight will start experimenting with a ‘proper’ schedule which varies during the day. It’ll go something like this -
0600 – 1800: – very diverse music, no preference for any genre, no A/B/C playlist rubbish.
1800 – 2300: themed, genre-specific music, for extended periods: a chunk of Metal, some Electronica, a pile of rock, some jazz, stuff like that. Not aiming to be all formal, ‘an hour of this then an hour of that’, but trying to put similar styles of music next to each other for however long seems sensible.
2300 – 0100: Ambient. You might even hear some birdsong.
0100 – 0600: All kinds of everything, no restrictions, sometimes a bit wild. (Wee small hours radio listeners are workers, not people falling asleep!).
As usual, this is just an idea, and an experiment. Please tell me if you think this approach is wrong, and what you’d prefer. Once we get it right, we’ll start to introduce more voices – I think, only in the evening, all the feedback has suggested you don’t want DJs during the day – and then we’ll open all music selection up to interactivity, as all our systems should be in place and tested by then.
