How many songs does the average radio station play a day?

Question

And if you don't know that: how many minutes of commercials do radio stations play a day?

Answer 1

if your talking about Chicago country music station they play Only The Top 40 They Play About Maybe about 100 songs ALL OVER PLAYED as for Commercials the run about 20 minutes worth an hour

Answer 2

uh 250 i think.. im actually clueless.. maybe 200 or 400.. how about google it?

Answer 3

As most people agree it's about 200 songs total a day but probably only about 60 or so that are different with less on top 40 stations.

The time frame on commercials the others said is about right with mornings I know on a major market morning radio show pegged at close to 30 minutes given to local affliates for news/traffic and spots as well as music with them estimating time for music at 14 minutes and traffic/spots at 11 minutes

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Answer 4

As someone who worked many years in commercial radio, I've only seen two places where jocks selected the songs they wanted to play (and that was nearly 20 years ago). Everything today is done via playlists.

As far as commercials, most stations shoot for spot breaks around :15, :30 and :45 and they vary from 2:30 to 3:30 in length depending on sales and daypart. That averages to about 9-10 minutes per hour for a station and show that are doing well. During overnights (12a - 6a) you might only hear two or three minutes of commercials per hour.

Because of dayparting the amount of songs played per daypart will vary. Morning drive, on a typical station, has "a show" where they take calls, joke around and entertain -- as well as deliver the news and weather more often. When I did mornings it was rare to play more than 9 or 10 songs per hour (8 was probably the norm). Once you hit middays (10a-2p) it's mostly music and you're back to about 43-45 minutes of space you can fill with music... meaning you can play roughly 11 or 12 songs per hour.

In total there are maybe 250ish songs played per day but it depends on the format of the station too and whether you're counting repeated songs or not..

a Top 40 format will repeat those songs depending on the category they've placed the song under. A Recurrent song will play less often in a week while a hot, new song might be heard once every three hours.

Answer 5

I would say 175.

Answer 6

150 or more

just a radom guess

Answer 7

I'd say 200 or more.

ET

Answer 8

listen then mark down or .....................well...it depends on what time the talk show on the station comes on but if it isn't a talk show on there then maybe about 300-350songs a day or you can just multiply 3x24 to get your exact answer.

Answer 9

We used to have in-house contests to see how many we could play in an hour. The jox would pick a day and then spend hours researching the shortest songs available that fit the programming and were on the playlist. Then we'd finagle them into one hour trying to win an after-hours beer from our jock-mates.

Generally, if you really try hard,  you can get about 12-13 songs per hour (plus commercials and promos) at a station that airs 8-10 minutes of commercials per hour.

So, that would be 156 from 6A-6P; plus 84 from 6P-12Mid; plus 90 from midnight to 6AM. Or approximately 330 songs per day. That's with everything pre-planned to shoot for the max by all the jox - on that particular day.

You wouldn't be able to include "Freebird,: nor "Stairway to Heaven," "Hey Jude," etc. But you would have  lot of mid-60s top-40 songs ;<)

In real life, it's a lot less. I think  managed to get 18 into one hour once during a slow advertising day.

-a guy named duh

Answer 10

250-300 songs

Answer 11

Hi! Do you mean different ones or repeats of the same some but different times durning the day.

I would think 250 to 300 songs.