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Stephen: >thing that won't go away in the near future. Airplay for other than >Industry-sponsored quasi-payola acts will then continue, but the small >stations, especially the college ones, can be a valuable market, because >play lists aren't controlled in the same manner. Mind you, the radio >station for a huge university might be the exception, but as far as I >remember even Syracuse University - whose communications school is run >by Newhouse - isn't confined to such closed-minded playlist antics. FWIW: the stations at Syracuse Univ. *are* confined to such close-minded playlist antics. I graduated from Newhouse in 1994, and worked at WAER. We late-night cats risked our jobs tossing our playlists into the recycle bin before the show. Must-Plays all over them. (A few of the old-timers did say it hadn't always been that way...) The other "college station" at SU was all strictly Top-40: a training ground for commercial radio land. I highly doubt it's improved since then. Poof, peter koniuto