OK, I admit defeat. cridders put up a much better revue of the recent radio reborn conference than i could have conjured up. so all i will do is pick up on one of the slides from the RCS pres. It was a pic of the now playing data being fed through to a billboard. It took me back to a possibly apocryphal story about the first instance of “now playing” data being publicly displayed in the UK. I heard that Heart hired out a huge billboard on the entry to the A40 westway out of london and had a live feed of tracks playing being displayed. How did they do this before the very clever GIMP from VirginRadio (which i launched <cough>)? well, as far as i recall, they had a couple of work experience boys encamped inside the hoardings with a radio and a playlist tapping in the tracks as they appeared. unethical? almost certainly. creative? without doubt.
can anyone confirm or correct this (very possibly) urban myth?
Some work experience, huh. I’d love to know if that was true, too. I guess sometimes you have to prove a concept with massive manual labour.