MUSIC PROGRAMMING

1. What is the "Music programming for Radio?"
   When you choose specific songs to put on a playlist which plays on your radio station.
   
2. What is a station's "Music Format?"
   A radio station has to play a certain genre of music; "Hot Adult Contemporary" such as Smooth and Magic would play artists like Coldplay, Adele, Ed Sheeran, Bruno Mars ect. "Soft Adult Contemprary" such as Heart FM would play artists like Ronan Keating, Paloma Faith, Daniel Powter, Honey Rider ect. "Adult Contemporary" such as BBC Radio 2 would play artists like MIKA, Beach Boys, Pet Shop Boys ect.
   
3. What is an ABC Playlist?'A' playlist are songs that are most played and are popular, 'B' playlist are sometimes played but not very often and a 'C' playlist are that aren't played once in a while.
   
4. Explain how the choice of music would affect profits of a commercial radio station.If the same song/artist is playing on a regular basis, listeners will get bored and change channel to another station. Therefore the station will lose listeners and the commercials will lose money.
   
5. Explain some technicques in music programming to keep the listener interested?Main way to keep listeners entertained is to not play the same kind of music over and over because they'll go listen somewhere else. this is why radio stations use ABC playlists because it gives a wide variety of music to play to keep people listening to your radio station.