Q&A 23/09/13

1) A stations music format is the type of music that a station plays, this includes:

• Top 40
• adult contemporary
• Soft Adult contemporary
• Hot Adult contemporary
• Classical
• indie/ aletnative
• rock
• classic hits
• contemporary asian

2) An A B C playlist is 3 groups of playlists that get different priorities over radio time, The A group gets 3-4 plays a day, the B playlist gets 2 plays a day and the C playlist plays once a day.

3) Music Scheduling is where a radio station queues up songs depending on what playlist they are on or from what the audience wants from phonecalls