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| Thread ID: 63443 | 2005-11-10 00:44:00 | radio airplay monitor | lance4k (4644) | PC World Chat |
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| 402990 | 2005-11-10 00:44:00 | does anyone know where to buy a radio airplay monitor from? The device that the nz chart people use to figure out the nz top 40 music chart.It measures airplay | lance4k (4644) | ||
| 402991 | 2005-11-10 01:09:00 | I doubt if such a "thing" exists. ;) When a radio station plays a tune, they write it down in a list. That's used to calculate how much they have to pay in royalties. (They can't just download MP3s and playe them). I guess the rating people just get a copy of the lists from each station. Real high technology :cool: |
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| 402992 | 2005-11-10 01:14:00 | Its more than just the software. You also need the multi-channel simultaneous reception capability of both AM and FM stations nationwide, which means a national networking backbone with regional monitoring outposts (for non-networked stations). Then the software to recognise the track and log the results. To set this up would probably require hundreds of thousands of dollars (or much more) I suspect. Only a few companies worldwide specialise in this as far as I know, and they sell the results to people who derive the top 40 from the outputs for their regions. It could also be done by getting access to all station logs (they must be kept for copyright payment I would think) and derive it from those. But they are "private property" and unlikely to be publically available Or did you have something totally different in mind? |
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