Top 15 builder section:
https://www.radiocaroline.co.uk/top15_builder_4/
If you check important guidelines it includes appealing to our main audience, rationing songs in Top 15's such as Stairway to Heaven to once a month and no more than two of the same artist.
Your suggestions says "Please remember that the Top 15's need to appeal to our normal daytime audience and should represent the kind of music the Album Channel plays."
I'd suggest editing the important guideline section to say normal daytime audience and restrict Top 15 selections to one per artist.
I'm sure like me there are artists/bands and genres of music Caroline plays I'm often not that keen on particularly if a Top 15 includes a longer track.
The Radio Caroline Playlists website I linked to on Ian's post about identifying a track includes some Top 30 playlists. One of them has 5 Bob Dylan songs on it including the top 3. I'm a long time Dylan fan but know other's prefer cover versions of his songs as they don't rate his vocals.
I'd be happy to restrict songs like Stairway to Heaven to every couple of months as well.
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A friend of my daughter(30ish) 'discovered' this new station called Radio Caroline because she was told of this great top15 programme every day. The show does appeal to a new audience. Previous Message
Well, deciding ways of making it better might alter the basin format of the programme which is maybe a main factor for attracting the faithful, thus making it the most popular programme numbers wise. You could change the format to my Top 15 Caroline Classics and provided a pick list of a couple of thousand songs that are radio friendly.
By dropping it you remove that risk and ensure that important hour following Breakfast is musically strong enough to retain numbers throughout the day.
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Hello all,
Just to be clear, the Top 15 programme is the most popular programme on Caroline. Our graph ' sort of ' levels out during the night, starts to rise from 4am and rises more sharply when the early breakfast show starts, followed by Tony Paul.
But at 9am there is no doubt that people tune in to hear the Top 15 selection, which is why I want it to be as good as possible.
At 10am the graph peaks and no presenter who follows on retains every listener. Depending on who is on air the graph may fall a bit or more than a bit.
Obviously we have no intention of dropping the most popular show, but only devising ways to make it better.
Total listening hours creep up little by little as time goes by. While staying within the terms that got us our licences in the first place, we must be doing something right I guess.
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Peter Said
No Stephen,
I am not ' wrong ' about the Cranberries just that you have a different view to mine.
Yes obviously, Said purely in jest, as if I was talking in a pub, just a little more difficult to articulate on a forum.
The term ' good ' means to me known popular tacks associated with radio Caroline.
You offer to create another Top 15 but give notice that you would not select my preferred choices. Also you intend to include tracks that are rarely played. Just now we undertake within reason to air any Top 15 supplied.
But... We may please you as you hear your choices, but I don't want to see my graph collapse as hundreds of listener ask ' what the feck is this ? and switch off, thus damaging the whole day.
And quite right too. I believe the last one had a song removed and as a reasonable regular listener I know what maybe should/would please the majority of the audience.
Now I see the conversation has moved on and good to see a lively debate here. I am a fan of the Top 15, being a music fan and freely admitting to Caroline being part of my musical education. I find the top 15 can be a way of finding a track that is well known, but for some reason missed by the commercial broadcasters and then I'll slip it into my music streaming provider of choice.
Dave Richards said
A Top 15, is a personal IPad shuffle, why inflict it on the listening public?
I disagree Dave, the top15 gives the audience a choice of their 15 (60) minutes of fame and also I like listening to hear a snapshot of their life and Caroline experiences, with the knowledge that a producer may have to eliminate the odd track for swearing, totally inappropriate for the station audience.
I should also add I'm a big fan of desert Island Disc.
Finally Paul Rusling said
Im more interested in the quality o the tunes , and their presentation. The bits between the tracks, the info and other stuff chucked in. Presentation is vital as it should be part of the entertainment and most of all, the company.
Spot on Paul, with this in mind I seek out some presenters more than other, Chris Pearson, Gary Ziepe, Rob Ashard, Mike Brill. Loved hearing Bob Lawerence back on Caroline. Although I preferred his presentational style and musical choice when he was on UDJ and the perfect programme he had when he was on Sunshine with a split programme between the more commercial stuff and the the Album Collection.
Like all of us here I have an affection for Caroline, it being part of my formative and adult years and the current output and presentation although not perfect IMHO, it is great to have around and a genuine alternative to the big stations available in my area. Long may it continue.
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