70s on 7 (and others?) speed up their songs??

[kryptonite]

I wonder who else does it. Heck, FM in the 90s probably did this.

Go to the 2nd page. As of very recently, it was still going on.

XM Sirius 70's on 7 playing music speeded up (not tempo)

http://boards.radio-info.com/smf/index.php/topic,115149.0.html Post 1 from that forum: For the last two days, I swear that some of the songs they...

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[sadchild]

I remember it in the 80s/90s on pop stations. Like when Kiss 108 was forced to play something hard rockin' for example. I always figured it was to get more commercials in.

 

[Channel98]

When KHJ in Los Angeles switched from adult contemporary to top-40 in 1965, they began speeding up every song by 3%. Then when we bought our favorite songs at the local record store and played them at home, they sounded slow. KHJ's jingles proclaimed "More music!" and speeding up the songs allowed the station to play 19 songs in an hour instead of 18. Did they think we were counting the number of songs played each hour? Program director Ron Jacobs insisted the only reason the songs were sped up was to make them sound "brighter."

Here is another discussion on the topic:

Does your hit radio station 'speed up' songs? | Pulse Music Board

My hit radio station 95 triple x speeds up songs. I can honestly tell. Everything sounds so much better on radio to me. I called in one night being really bored i asked them if it was true. The guy

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[scotchandcigar]

I remember in the 70s, the big mainstream rock radio stations in NYC always had call-in shows on Sunday nights. Every so often, a caller would start rambling about sped up music, and he'd be cut-off.

It's to squeeze more commercials per hour, and make more revenue.