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in the David Cavanagh book about Creation Records, there's loads of stuff about them trying to get their records played on daytime radio, because that's how you get people to buy your records.

But who listens to daytime radio? I mean, anyone other than housewives or doleies? and they're hardly a massive record buying market. or are they?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Saturday, 24 August 2002 10:41 (twenty-three years ago)

Robson and jerome to thread!

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Saturday, 24 August 2002 10:46 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know if 'daytime radio' means something special in the UK but if it means what it sounds like: office workers?

― Josh (Josh), Saturday, 24 August 2002 13:01 (twenty-three years ago)

or any other people who get to have a radio when they work

― Josh (Josh), Saturday, 24 August 2002 13:07 (twenty-three years ago)

XFM is often quite tolerable in the daytime hours

― blueski, Saturday, 24 August 2002 13:34 (twenty-three years ago)

I suspect the fact that getting played lots on daytime radio pretty much guarantees high chart positions suggests that there is some connection, and the companies pushing for their records to be on Radio 1's playlist (in the UK, it is Radio 1, not daytime radio in general) are not deluded, and that John Peel and Fabio won't have more of a sales effect. Loads of people listen to daytime Radio 1, that's why it has big audience figures.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Saturday, 24 August 2002 14:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Let's not forget kids out of school for the summer.

― Nate Patrin, Saturday, 24 August 2002 14:45 (twenty-three years ago)

but who are these people who listen to daytime radio? I mean, most workplaces do not encourage people to sit around with the radio on bopping away to the latest chart sounds. Or do they?

kids in the summer, not really relevant - isn't the summertime a traditional slump period for record sales?

― DV (dirtyvicar), Saturday, 24 August 2002 16:11 (twenty-three years ago)

re: workplaces - not really offices, but employees in shops, factories, warehouses etc often have radios. not everyone works in an office, you know

― michael (michael), Saturday, 24 August 2002 17:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Daytime Radio 2 = "Walking In Memphis" on a loop.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 24 August 2002 18:04 (twenty-three years ago)

In Which Dom Passantino Describes My Own Personal Hell.

― Nate Patrin, Saturday, 24 August 2002 20:50 (twenty-three years ago)

I think they're going for the taxi driver market, the only people who can listen to the radio all day and stop off at a record shop whenever they feel like it (passengers permitting).

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Sunday, 25 August 2002 09:21 (twenty-three years ago)

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