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   Just curious to know if anyone here knows what CD promo services (HitDisc, Chartbusters, etc.) KRBE and KHMX in Houston might have been using in the 1997-2001 time frame? I know they probably played regular promo CDs, too. 

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LunarLaugh Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 13 February 2020 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 137	Post Options Post Reply Quote LunarLaugh Thanks(0) Quote Reply Topic: OT: Radio sources Posted: 16 hours 53 minutes ago at 4:37pm
	Just curious to know if anyone here knows what CD promo services (HitDisc, Chartbusters, etc.) KRBE and KHMX in Houston might have been using in the 1997-2001 time frame? I know they probably played regular promo CDs, too.
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aaronk Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Admin Group Joined: 16 January 2005 Location: United States Status: Online Points: 372	Post Options Post Reply Quote aaronk Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 9 hours 38 minutes ago at 11:52pm
	Were major market stations using services like HitDisc? I always assumed stations in those markets had such great service they didn't need to pay for HitDisc or similar promo services. Medium and small market stations that didn't have top-tier label service might have benefited from TM and Hitmakers, though. We certainly used them at our small-market rural top 40 in northern Michigan.
	Aaron Kannowski Uptown Sound 91.9 The Peak - Classic Hip Hop

CountryPD Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Music Fan Joined: 29 July 2023 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 32	Post Options Post Reply Quote CountryPD Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 1 hour 30 minutes ago at 8:00am
	Agree with Aaron that most major market radio stations always received excellent service from record labels and had no need for other sources. Companies that compiled multiple new releases on a single CD were mostly for smaller market stations or club DJ's. CDX was a company specifically created for country releases. They provided free discs to the smaller country stations to save the major labels from doing so. CDX discs mostly included the radio versions/remixes/single edits. At the dawn of the CD era TM began to offer "oldie" music libraries on CD. A significant number of radio stations subscribed to them as many oldies were not yet commercially on compact disc. However many of the tracks were sourced from vinyl with noise reduction applied. Some also had inaudible "tones" embedded at the end of songs for automation systems.