Every programmer knows what the strongest songs are. Or at least they should. Turn-it-up songs guarantee a win in a button-punch comparison battle between two stations. But not every song is a mega-hit. Good programmers schedule these songs strategically and consistently when building programming clocks. The spoke theory of music programming is what holds stations together.

The Spoke Theory

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