Originally Posted by wckartist:
“Global may have some real good bean counters, but there is no one who has a comprehensive knowledge of music from down the decades,
You have so many millions of songs from down the years to pick from, yet choose so few........I personally would employ a consultant who was a PD at a big city station in the early days, has a 30 to 40 year career in music radio, and a superb track record........much better than asking Sharon and Tracy to rate a Take That song in a music testing survey...
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“Global may have some real good bean counters, but there is no one who has a comprehensive knowledge of music from down the decades,
You have so many millions of songs from down the years to pick from, yet choose so few........I personally would employ a consultant who was a PD at a big city station in the early days, has a 30 to 40 year career in music radio, and a superb track record........much better than asking Sharon and Tracy to rate a Take That song in a music testing survey...
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Thanks for a good laugh.
Firstly, no one who has a comprehensive music knowledge of the decades. What about Richard Park ? He's produced music logs for Top 40 stations since 1966. I would say he's got a pretty good music knowledge having worked in music for that long. Producing logs for Top 40 stations he knows all the big solid hits from everything to the mid 60's to today.
If you think Tony Blackburns music knowledge is good then i can sure bet that Parks is just as good if not better.
In response to the consultant bit, why ? Richard Park has the knowledge and skill to do it himself. Look at his past, Magic 105.4 the exact station Smooth is pretty much trying to be now. He was the guy who had the success of programming its winning format originally so theres no better person to do it. He has been in music radio for over 40 years working at not just a big city station but the ultimate big city station, Capital and not only that programmed Capital in what is regarded as the best ever sounding commercial station ever in the UK, the Music Power era.
EDIT: The post above has proved my point, Richard Park is the man for the job.





