{"id":1664,"date":"2006-09-18T17:48:02","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T17:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/2006\/09\/digital_music_a\/"},"modified":"2006-09-18T17:48:02","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T17:48:02","slug":"digital_music_a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/digital_music_a\/","title":{"rendered":"Digital Music Awards &#8211; Vote Rigging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Digital Music Awards are now a fixture in the world of radio, and each year they canvas for votes from the public to pick their favourites in various categories, including &#8220;Best Radio Station&#8221;. The only problem with that is that the most popular seems certain to win. And when I say &#8220;popular&#8221; I mean, the most listened to station wins.<br \/>\nSo all the competing stations do everything they can to get people to vote for them.<br \/>\nThis year the shortlisted stations are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pulserated.com\/\">Pulse Rated<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/6music\/\">BBC 6 Music<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gaydarradio.com\/\">Gaydar Radio<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ministryofsound.com\/radio\">Ministry of Sound Radio<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/uk.music.yahoo.com\/launchcast\/\">Launchcast<\/a>. On all those sites (except Launchcast), you&#8217;ll find a highly visible pink logo linking to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.btyahoo.com\/dma06\/best_radio\">this page<\/a> where you can vote for a station.<br \/>\nSo, in effect, the award is basically a measure of which station can mobilise the most listeners into visiting the DMA website. That&#8217;s another kind of competition altogether. This is a commercially run competition complete with sponsors. And I know that BBC 6 Music at least, has run on-air trails to get listeners to go online and vote.<br \/>\nSomehow, I prefer a judged competition, even if that kind of competition has its own shortcomings, with judges probably only hearing a one hour CD of the station rather than settling to down to actually listen.<br \/>\nOh, and before anyone says anything, my employer has been nominated for this award in the past and has put links on our website and in our newsletter. I do believe we stopped short of canvassing for votes on-air though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Digital Music Awards are now a fixture in the world of radio, and each year they canvas for votes from the public to pick their favourites in various categories, including &#8220;Best Radio Station&#8221;. The only problem with that is that the most popular seems certain to win. And when I say &#8220;popular&#8221; I mean, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.adambowie.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}