Word: promos
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...answer to that,” he says, visibly annoyed, “is that firstly, 60 percent of the music I play is on acetate; it’s not even on promo. The other 40 percent I play is on promo. None of it is on American radio. If no one has access to the music commercially, then that is underground.” Besides the fact that America’s got too short an attention span for dance music on the radio, Oakenfold neglects to point out that as one of the world?...
...watched the pairs figure-skating finals last Monday learned the outcome of another NBC nail biter during a commercial break: Friends would be back for a ninth season. The matter was resolved after a brief negotiation, in sharp contrast to the acrimony and waffling of two years ago. The promo announcing the show's return aired only hours after the new contracts had been signed, an indication of how much the network relies on the show to carry its prime time. But it is really the FRIENDS who should take a victory lap. Each cast member will earn $1 million...
...NASCAR will certainly wish it had him and his hirsute grin to do commercials on its new network home, and keep the old school alive. It will mourn Dale Earnhardt, and miss him. But he did the promo of a lifetime Sunday when he hit that wall between the third and fourth turn...
Burns is a historian working on film, however, not a prophet. Despite the huge number of jazz reissues carrying the series' imprimatur that are currently weighing down the record racks, neither is he a promo guy flacking for the future. His object is not to move CDs, but hearts. He means to reinvigorate the American imagination with the glories of this music, and at the same time, to remind and warn viewers that jazz was born out of a fierce challenge to the abiding shame of American racism. If that means looking back longer than looking forward, then that...
...promise that surrounded Fyvush Finkel's return to network television was too much to resist. Somehow, the promo in which he said, "Look at my knockers!" only got funnier each time I saw it. So I watched...