[BC] question for the braintrust

[David Lawrence]

On 1/20/06 5:20 PM, one JYRussell at academicplanet.com
<jyrussell at academicplanet.com> wrote:

 > There are consulting operations that hire people to sit and listen to the
 > radio.  Their hourly job is to sit and listen to a specific radio station
 > during specified hours and document what songs they hear, sending the
 > information in by internet back to the service, who posts it or sells it

There *were* services like that. They are no longer necessary, as all record
labels and all group owners have cooperated in fingerprinting the music, and
it's all done via computer, automatically. No humans are needed.

The old services also would timelapse 24 hours and have people determine
what songs were played from the snippets heard.

Certainly there are people that aircheck stations for competitive analysis
and to get a "feel" for the station they are listening to, but that's
separate from the old services that had live bodies listening

David
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