As a kid I used to think radio stations just slammed the disc album into the reader and played the music they needed, but now as an adult and as most music releasing digitally I don’t think they just play Spotify songs
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There was a time, surprisingly not that long ago, when there were people that sat in a room with two turntables and thousands of records or albums. Those are the black discs that you may have seen at “vinyl” shops. The person (DJ) would actually put the record on a turntable and play it, one at a time, until their shift was over, then rinse and repeat.
ASCAP has always been in the position to collect the royalties for any music played by a radio station. The stations would keep up with the number of times that any song was played and then paid ASCAP accordingly.
These days the DJ’s, if there are any, can voice track their entire show using the software mentioned by others here so that means all their talking is done in 45 minutes to an hour, depending on the length of their shift, and the music with the DJ segues inserted is programmed to play automatically from the files.
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