In uk.music.charts on Sun, 25 Nov 2007, Col  
wrote :
>>
>>>People should be allowed to listen to what *they* want to listen
>>>to, not what some radio station *thinks* they should be listening to.
>>
>> Isn't that an argument for all-request radio stations?
>
>If you took it to it's logical extremes, then yes.
>
>What I don't want to see is radio stations rejecting perfectly
>good music that their listeners will probably want to hear, on
>the grounds that it's not British.

I'm not talking about perfectly good music - I'm talking about rap. :)
>
>Didn't the French try this kind of thing some years ago, perhaps they
>still do. In an attempt to boost French culture against the American
>onslaught
>a certain percentage of tracks played on French radio had to be in French.
>What actually happened of course was that the demand for US music
>was still high and the French stuff ended up being relagated to late night
>slots were audience figures were low anyway.

Of course, the language issue wouldn't apply in my scenario.

It's all moot though, except in the extremely unlikely event of the BNP 
winning a GE, and banning all non-white music, full stop.
>
>> Girls Aloud are a good example - they've never missed the top 10 with 16
>> singles, yet they get nothing like the airplay their chart success
>> deserves.
>
>Even on Radio One?

They don't get the airplay you'd expect for a group with 17 successive 
top 10 singles.

R1 actually played Cascada's new single, amazingly enough.
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Paul Hyett, Cheltenham (change 'invalid83261' to 'blueyonder' to email me)