I'm posting this because I voted on their website and I'm from Massachusetts
I doubt they actually count the votes. But they will make sure to get those 10+ minute songs on the list, the ones they play only on the Top 1,043 weekend. And make sure they still hit their 9-minute commercial breaks at :10 and :40 past each hour. Heck, they may even skip 50 songs or so during the overnight.I'm posting this because I voted on their website and I'm from Massachusetts
I doubt they actually count the votes. But they will make sure to get those 10+ minute songs on the list, the ones they play only on the Top 1,043 weekend. And make sure they still hit their 9-minute commercial breaks at :10 and :40 past each hour. Heck, they may even skip 50 songs or so during the overnight.
Theoretically, yes. I'm usually visiting my in-laws in north-central New Jersey on Thanksgiving and have on Q104.3 to listen to the countdown. On more than one occasion, I know that they were on, say #700 at 10 p.m., then the following morning at 8 a.m., they were on, say #500. Even with a lesser spot load overnight, there's no way they're playing 200 songs in a 10 hour period. I compared the "last songs played" to the countdown song list they post, and sure enough, they skipped 100 songs sometime in the 3 a.m. hour. They skipped what seemed to be another 50 songs the following night. This was a few years back, 2018 maybe, and their commercial breaks that year were particularly long. One I clocked at 12 minutes. It was unbearable, and I've been less interested in listening to the countdown since. I'm staying in Massachusetts this year, but may check in via the stream from time to time. I'm usually more curious about where the songs place from year to year anyway--I do have a Google Sheet with all of their countdowns and rankings since 2002. Yeah, I'm a nerd.Actually, in the overnight hours they play a few more songs in the hour than usual because they are few commercial breaks during the overnight