As I mentioned in the previous post, never judge Day One too harshly, and I personally have not put much ears on Beats One yet (just two partial songs), but I am fascinated by all the talk about it.
In the link below, the author brings up an interesting conundrum:
He plugged an upcoming show from St. Vincent, saying that it would be on “tonight” and in a few hours. It might be on for someone “tonight” and yesterday it was truly a few hours away. But this morning the replay of St. Vincent was actually just one hour away.
Source: If Beats 1 is live global radio, why is it broadcasting replays already? | The Verge
So yeah, as I mentioned in that last post, that stuff drives me nuts. However, I can tell you that having done national radio for over a decade, the time zone thing becomes quite annoying. For years Mad Dog Russo started his shows with “Good afternoon everybody….” except his satellite show starts at 11am Pacific, so he had changed it to “Good Day Everybody” which never ever ever sounded cool nor “right” to my ears. (No idea what he does these days.)
I struggled with when to schedule shows. It made sense for me to put Jim Breuer in afternoon drive on Raw Dog, but that was East Coast. What about the Pacifics, don’t they deserve a PM show. Should we just replay the thing? But then you have 6 hours in a row of the same thing? So I can only imagine the challenge of trying to perfectly slot everything worldwide (or at least London to LA) without having some of your stars buried at 4am Pacific time. Not easy without replays or a second feed (Beats Two, let’s do it!)
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While I’m on the Apple kick, has anyone heard who the curators of the other stations are? I am not saying they are bad or unworthy, but with other services I will see announcements that Company X hired away someone who is experienced at a format, and I haven’t seen any such releases about the other Apple curated stations. Again, just curious and not rock throwing.
