Funny But True...Canada lol

[SoDarkTheCon]

CRTC study concludes Classic Rock stations don't play new music Wednesday, 27 February 2008 A study conducted by the Canadian Radio and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), entitled "Emerging Canadian Artists on Commercial Radio" was released today.

The purpose of the study was to determine how much time commercial radio stations devote to playing music by "emerging Canadian musical artists who are not yet familiar to most radio listeners and consumers of recorded music."

The major finding of the government study: Canadian Classic Hit radio stations in Canada don't play music from emerging artists! It's unclear why the commission believed Classic hits station would be playing songs that are not yet familiar (i.e./ songs that weren’t hits) to most radio listeners but the commission now has empirical evidence to prove what Canadians listening to Classic Hits stations across the country already know.

To arrive at its conclusions, the commission reviewed the playlists of 20 French-language and 85 English-language commercial radio stations for the week of April 15th, 2007. The stations represented fourteen different musical formats and included stations in markets within 6 population groupings, ranging from markets with more than 2,000,000 inhabitants to markets with fewer than 50,000 residents.

From the playlists of the 105 stations chosen, the commission staff concluded that 574 emerging artists (410 English and 164 French) had their music played during week. The CRTC then went on and determined what percentage of air time was devoted to emerging artists within each format.

After its analysis, the CRTC concluded that "English-language stations describing themselves as 'Classic Rock' or 'Classic Hits' played essentially no music by emerging artists that week". The commission also noted that "this was also the case for French-language stations using descriptions such as 'Boom,' 'Souvenirs retro,' 'Rock classique,' and 'Succès classique.'



If you can't see why this is funny then its a shame...for everyone else...Pretty dumb huh. Seems to me the goverment that complains of no money sure can throw money around at stupid non relevant or for that matter cared about topics.

[gooly]

this is a great read, does anybody know the taxpayers cost for this study?

[Olds355]

Tip of the iceberg on what a government spends on stupid studies.
But this was funny.
Thanks sodarkthecon.

[joeeking]

They Don"t play the Music cause there a Classic music station . Not New Music ! How Can New Music made by anyone be Classic when no one has heard of it ?

[SoDarkTheCon]

Originally Posted by joeeking

They Don"t play the Music cause there a Classic music station . Not New Music ! How Can New Music made by anyone be Classic when no one has heard of it ?

Thats the whole point on why its funny man...Studies by the goverment are just cash cows for the companies that sit around get baked, and then make up random info.