Greetings from the BBM Radio Team! Welcome to our December 2006 Newsletter! Listen Live Now:http://www.live365.com/stations/dampierIn this issue:- -December listening hours almost doubled since re-launch!
- -13 new tracks added on 12/21!
- -Vote for your favorite songs!
- -To shuffle or not to shuffle?
- -Your Recommendations
December listening hours As of December 20th, we have logged a total of
966:58 listening hours, compared to November, where we only had a total of 880:24 listening hours for the entire month!
Yee-Haw! Great Job everybody! Keep on listening, and tell all of your friends and on-line buddies to check out the station. Word of mouth is our best advertising. A big thank you to everybody from the BBM Radio Team! We hope you are enjoying the station and will continue to update the play lists based on your suggestions and feedback!
13 new tracks added on 12/21 Yes, that’s right folks. 13 additional songs added on 12/21. New songs from:
George Strait,
K.D. Lang,
Nickelback,
Rascal Flatts,
Trisha Yearwood,
John Michael Montgomery, a new
Gustavo Santaolalla track from the new Babel soundtrack, and yes, even
“Babs” has made our play list!
Ooooooh-Weeeee! Yeah! This brings our total play list to 165 tracks running at 9 hours and 36 minutes of pure BBM music pleasure! There’s probably a song or two you haven’t heard! Tune in today and hear what you’re missing!
Vote “Thumbs Up” or “Thumbs Down” Did you know you can ‘rate’ each track in the play list? When listening to BBM Radio, the tuner window displays the artist and title of the song that’s playing. Next to that are a
“thumbs up” and a
“thumbs down” icon. You can give the track “Thumbs Up” if you like it, or “Thumbs down” if you don’t by clicking on the appropriate icon. We get a detailed analyzed report of all the votes, and we can see which tracks are well-liked, and which ones aren’t. We are going to use this information going forward to cycle out some of the less-liked songs, and replace them with new tracks.
So it’s important you vote for the songs you like and the songs you don’t. You might think your vote in November doesn’t always count, but your vote on BBM radio sure does! As they say in Chicago, “vote early, and vote often”. It’s real easy. Even LaShawn can do it!
Now for the fun stuff!:
As of December 20th, here are the TOP TEN HIGHEST Rated Tracks :
Gustavo Santaolalla – Horse Love 2 (Second Night In The Tent)
Boy Howdy – Cowboy’s Born With A Broken Heart
Willie Nelson – Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond Of Each Other
Gustavo Santaolalla – The Wings Remix (Manny Lehman, Tony Moran, Warren Rigg)
Steve Earle – Devil’s Right Hand
21 Grams – Did This Really Happen (Second Night In The Tent)
John Debney – Ben Asks Pop For Help
Howie Day – Collide
Heather Nova – Heart & Shoulder
Gustavo Santaolalla – Riding HorsesAnd landing just outside the top ten is:
Willie Nelson – Always On My MindAgree or disagree with these? Tune in and vote today! You don’t gotta stand it, because you can fix it!
Ok, and now, as of Dec. 20th, here are the top ten LOWEST RATED TRACKS: Snow Patrol – Chasing Cars
Gustavo Santaolalla – The Wings Remix (Gabriel & Dresden’s)
Heather Nova – All I Need
Coldplay – I Bloom Baum
Celine Dion – A New Day Has Come
Hammock – Hammock 1
Blue – Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word
Gustavo Santaolalla – Camp
Linda Ronstadt – It’s So Easy
Pat Matheny – A Map 2Agree or disagree that these should be the LOWEST RATED tracks? Tune in and vote today! You don’t gotta stand it, because you can fix it!
PS: The tracks with the lowest ratings will be the ones for the chopping block in January.To Shuffle or not to Shuffle?Currently, as of 12/21, the play list is in RANDOM SHUFFLE mode. This means any of the 165 tracks could pop up at any time in any random order. At the beginning of the re-launch on 12/01, the tracks were in a pre-arranged order (mix tape style). Both styles have their benefits: Having the tracks pre-arranged can allow for control of the moods and flows of the songs and segments. The down side, is you’ll begin to learn the play list order, and it might become stale after a while. Having the tracks on Random Shuffle can be exciting, as you never know what you’re going to hear next.
However, sometimes the songs don’t “go together” back to back. We also run the risk of going almost 18 hours without your favorite song being played, and then as the play list restarts itself, the same song can be played twice within a half an hour. I’ve also heard it play the two station identification announcements back to back.
So which do you prefer? Random Shuffle or Pre Arranged Program? Vote here:http://bettermost.net/forum/index.php?topic=6965.0(The play list will be on Random Shuffle through the end of December.)Your Recommendations Thank you to those who have written in with their recommendations for songs for BBM Radio. Keep the suggestions coming in!
PM sfericsf with your suggestions, and include a reason as to why the song relates to BBM. Also, in January we are going to be going through and reviewing the “Songs that makes me think of BBM” & “Songs related to Brokeback” threads and adding titles from those suggestions as well!
We hope you have enjoyed this edition of the BBM Radio Newsletter. Your ideas and input are highly valued and appreciated. This is YOUR radio station. Please tell us how we can keep you listening longer, and keep Jack & Ennis in our hearts and in our dreams.
Happy Holidays! -The BBM Radio Team
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