John Willkie pointed out: Commercial audio pays their salary (Station GMs)and the last spot sold in a quarter probably goes directly to their bonus. Engineers care most about quality; GMs care most about sales. No doubt about that! However I have noticed the stations with the higher ratings usually have better control over commercial loudness. It's kind of a conundrum. Balancing pleasing the ad agencies vs driving away viewers. One of the fist things I was told on my first job in Radio was to never confuse my personal taste with what works in Radio!! Tony ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.