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Originally Posted by JonInMiddleGA
Nah, the station library is simply being rotated in a fashion that's pretty common these days.
Most only now use a fraction of their library at a time, intentionally. They'll make sure you hear the same couple hundred songs a time or two, then move on to another segment, putting the previous batch on hiatus. Over the course of however long the batch is active, it'll play several times in each daypart so that "everybody gets to hear it". Have to do that since the TSL (time spent listening) is at all-time lows these days.
There's no "rights to a song" if it's under BMI/ASCAP btw. Stations pay them, they pay the writers. If you have an agreement with them, it covers every song in existence (basically)
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Is there some other advantage? I feel like "so everybody gets to hear it" is a pretty lame reason. This happens to me despite being in the car like 15-20 minutes at most any given day (and other days I'm not in the car at all). So the people listening for several hours a day must be really suffering. It's frustrating to hear that a station could have a good mix of whatever, but intentionally choose not to. Why does everybody need to hear Night Moves *right now*? They've heard it before, and they'll hear it again.