WOLF music

[yoyo205]

Has anyone ever heard of stations uping the tempo of their songs to fit more songs in each hour?  I was listening to the wolf, and the majority of their songs seem sped up.  Some songs more obvious than others...

[airwaver]

Yeah, but they'll never play or speed up THIS one:

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[D7]

Yeah, but they'll never play or speed up THIS one:

Thank goodness.  That was some uninspired tripe for certain. 

[WarpFactor]

That was a couple of minutes I'll never get back.

[ThinLizzyRocks]

In the 80s I worked at KRPM.  They pitched all their music up 2%.  As I understood it, the purpose was not to fit more songs in, rather to make the station sound more up beat than the competition.

I've noticed from time to time that KJR-FM seems play the shortest version possible of some songs - I've wondered if they make their own edits for air-play.

[xmtrland]

Speeding up the music is an old radio trick to get more songs an hour. Gannet did this when they bought KHIT back in the 80’s.

[magic john]

Most current based stations speed up thier music 2% to sound more up tempo..Hoping thier competition doesn't do it so thier music sounds like it is slower!!!

[LITTLEBOYBLUE]

I've noticed from time to time that KJR-FM seems play the shortest version possible of some songs - I've wondered if they make their own edits for air-play.

Ironically when KJR-FM came back as 70's again (just around the time of C/Channel takeover), one thing I really liked was that they played some special versions of the songs (longer not shorter).  KING, when doing Top-40 in the 70's,  used to try to find unique ways of standing out ... and would often opt for album versions of songs instead of AM edits so it sounded a BIT edgier (kind of funny to say because in reality any real HIP people had long gravitated to KZOK, KISW anyway!). 

That whole "art" of finding interesting things to do with songs seems to have disappeared long ago.  Sometimes stations would do custom edits or remixes, sometimes drop special jingles over intros, or all kinds of creative staging that made the way they "presented" a song much different than all the competitors playing the same song.  Today, we call all that "clutter" ... bummer.

[TakeItFromMe]

WOLF does many remixes and we also speed up the music as do most stations to add tempo and pop.  WOLF also has some of the best processing in town in my opinion.   Virtually all Entercom, Clear Channel and Infiinity stations jack up the speed about 3-5%.  With today technology it is virtually unnoticed.  The only stations in town that don't are the soft stations like JAZZ or WARM and KMTT, which make sense.   KPLZ doesn't, but they don't process either, really stupid for a HOT/AC.  Their engineer must be running the show or the PD is deaf. Their concept is to make the music sound just like it is on the CD...DUMB!  If you wanted a CD, you'd buy it and listen to it.  You listen to radio for pop and sizzle.