Radio stations announcing song title/artist?

[crt89]

I know sometimes on morning shows I will hear the DJ/host of morning shows telling what song is coming up or maybe the preceding song if they're coming back from a break.

It seems to me that these days it's less common though since many stations are entirely automated and there may not even be an actual DJ present at certain times of day.

One station in my listening area has a female-sounding robotic voice that announces the singer and song title after each song ends. It's the only station that does that.

I also believe that these syndicated shows like the John Tesh Radio Show or Delilah that stations will often play in the evening hours have their own playlists. It may well be that segments of these shows are even pre recorded and just have segments swapped in and out and used over again in the future.

I have noticed that even on stations that show title/artist info via RDS, that this information does not show up during these syndicated sessions.

[Electronic M]

A lot of stations here don't anounce almost anything. Haven't owned anything with RDS, and it's been ages since I had a Rental with it.

There's a smartphone app called Shazam that will identify the vast majority of music out there by listening to it.

[Jeffhs]

Originally Posted by crt89

I know sometimes on morning shows I will hear the DJ/host of morning shows telling what song is coming up or maybe the preceding song if they're coming back from a break.

It seems to me that these days it's less common though since many stations are entirely automated and there may not even be an actual DJ present at certain times of day.

One station in my listening area has a female-sounding robotic voice that announces the singer and song title after each song ends. It's the only station that does that.

I also believe that these syndicated shows like the John Tesh Radio Show or Delilah that stations will often play in the evening hours have their own playlists. It may well be that segments of these shows are even pre recorded and just have segments swapped in and out and used over again in the future.

I have noticed that even on stations that show title/artist info via RDS, that this information does not show up during these syndicated sessions.

There are at least two FM stations in my area near Cleveland which operate without DJs. The only voice at all on one station will say "1065 The Lake. We play anything"; the station plays slightly dated former top-40 records. The other station, branded "Gold 93.7", plays all oldies (former top-40 hits of the 1950s-'70s) and is automated, with a former top-40 northeastern Ohio DJ making recorded announcements between every set of records, a "set" being anywhere from two to five records. (I seriously doubt the former DJ making these announcements is live on the station any longer, as the man was born in 1946, making him 76 years old; his voice may be on tape, with the man himself being tens or even hundreds of miles away.)

The announcements made between sets of songs aren't much to write home about, as they are just meant to identify the radio station itself. Some of these announcements are downright silly, IMHO, one being "And now, straight from the gold mine . . ." (the expression is broadcast with an unmistakable echo behind it); this one is normally played just before the radio station plays what used to be called "super oldies", songs which were top-40 hits on radio in Cleveland and elsewhere in the 1950s-'60s, mostly 1950s.

Those are about the only two FM stations in Cleveland I am aware of which are fully automated, although I have a feeling that at least one other local station gets its music from a computerized music service as well, since I almost never hear DJs between songs on that station. Another clue that the stations' programming is automated (or could be) is there are no periodic time checks, as top-40 DJs used to do in the '50s through maybe the end of the '70s.

AM radio in Cleveland is just about dead. Most AM stations in the area are syndicated talk and/or sports, with no local announcers or DJs to be heard anywhere or at any time. It is because of this that I no longer listen to AM radio these days.

I listen to both automated Cleveland stations I mentioned quite a bit since, having been born in the mid-'50s (I am just under 66 years of age as I write this), I like the oldies. I must say, IMO, that music makes a heck of a lot more sense to me than the garbage passing for music being played over the radio these days, except of course for stations which play oldies and even the occasional song from the 1940s.

I must say I like listening to the automated stations, having had my fill of listening to motormouth DJs (and there were more than a few of them on the rock and roll stations in Cleveland) when I was a kid growing up in the late 1960s-'70s. After all, I listen to radio for the music, not for the person playing that music.

Many DJs these days do not sound as if they belong on the radio, IMO, which is another reason I like the automated stations. How these people ever managed to get into radio in the first place is a mystery to me.

I believe computer automation of local radio stations may be the future of what used to be referred to as "top forty" radio, with live DJs slowly fading out of the picture--thank goodness. I say "thank goodness" because, as I mentioned earlier in this post, many DJs do not say much worth listening to between records these days.

IMO, automation is returning FM radio to what it used to be, and should have been all along, that is, as an old radio expression goes, "all music, all the time." The only other improvement I can see right now for FM radio would be a return to music which makes sense, not this loud, noisy rock stuff which would make Marconi turn over in his grave. What would he think, after all, if he could hear the noise and flat-out garbage that passes for music being played over the radio in the 21st century?

[colortrakker]

I wonder if stations rely more on online playlists for info like that. I know most of the jocks on the stations around here sound like they're just reading the title and artist off the screen and genuinely have no idea otherwise. RDS can be pretty useless. One station I know of uses it to advertise: "ALL NEW MIRAGE G4 JUST $9999" at whatever the Mitsubishi dealer is. I'll have to see if they remembered to change it.

[Colly0410]

A friend of mine was a presenter on a local community FM station, I loved listening to her & I'd send her facebook PM's saying I liked the song, moaning about the weather, what my brainless cat has been up too & other chit/chat & she'd read my comments on air. They laid her off & replaced her with an automated gubbins that you can't interact with. That station has lost me as a listener...

[centralradio]

Some stations do and some dont..Dont have an RDS radio here but know most of the tunes the stations I listen too since they are all oldies stations...

Very dangerous move to keep looking at the car radio with RDS..Wonder how many accidents that caused along with text messaging with cell phones..