Quoting a previous Steve Leyland contribution:-

Do you mean those restrictions that don't currently work if a listener
wants some diversity and result in legal stations playing the same 300
pop songs over and over?

This 300 songs on rotation thing:

I'm confused by all this. We the anoraks say it's wrong. We also scream and shout about how safe and boring the 300 songs actually are. Don't get me wrong, I am also one of the 'we', BUT, the facts are that 300 boring songs on rotation seems to make for good RAJAR. Indeed, when in London I've noticed more and more places like cafes, market stalls, shops, etc., seem to have mainly Magic, secondly Smooth, and thirdly Heart on. It's very rare to hear Capital, Kiss, or any BBC station. Now, me frequenting these places is not really a scientific study, of course, but it does seem that something is attracting people to listen to stations playing 300 boringly safe songs.

So, one could argue that WE are the ones out of step with 'the people' by saying that 300 songs on rotation is wrong. In the days of Laser or Nova or Atlantic we didn't complain and thought it was wonderful.

So, I'm confused as to why we now think it's wrong as a radio format, and yet the public clearly don't.
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* Christopher England just said that *