Radio and Televison Research

How to Create a Radio Playlist.

A playlist is a list of recordings which will be played throughout a duration of time (radio show). The playlist can hold up to hundreds of songs on one playlist. The songs held on the playlist can be played more than once depending on how popular the song is. Each radio stations are diffrent depending on what type of station it is, For example radio 1 and Galaxy will have very simular songs played throughout the show becuase of the style and popularity of the show and they are chart shows so they will play what songs are in the charts. However radio stations like bbc 4 and bbc wm will be more older and  wider range of music as they are less popular and also for an older audience.

Commerical radio stations hold a typical playlist of about 400-500 tracks and more smaller stations have around 200 tracks which are played. The bbcs local radio sations have typical of a big 900 tracks on their playlists which is a huge number of songs that would be played. This number kind of shows how popular the BBCs radio stations are that they need 900 songs and they believe they wont a variety of tracks to keep the ranges of audiences intregued.
To creat a playlist you will need to choose what songs you want to broadcast on the show. You would then need to download them tracks and import them onto myriad which then can be sorted into an order of when they would be played. Writing down the order of the songs b efore arranging them would be a clever as it wouldnt waste any time and would be done quie quickly.