That's the magic number
La Presse reporter Emilie Coté has touched on the newest pay-for-play
payola scam in the U.S. (a repeat of
the 1950s mess), and looked at how a new tune finds airtime on the Montreal FM radio waves. Each week, stations like
CKOI,
Energie,
Rythme FM and
RockDetente add two songs or, at most, three, to their playlists. And that's it. Now you know why commercial radio is impossible to listen to for more than five minutes at a time.