How does the power of TRL jive with the record companies objectives?
The only stuff that we ever make the decisions about are what videos are going to be premiered on TRL. Every week we premiere a number of videos that we deem appropriate for TRL. … Sometimes a band’ll premiere a video and it won’t show up again. The fans vote. The fans can go online or the fans call up and we tally all those votes. Sometimes we use the votes in the studio audience as well. We usually have them fill out a form. Sometimes we even take votes down on the street, compile all that information together and that’s where we get the top ten. And it’s ten-to-one. Number one was the most popular, got the most votes, all the way down to number ten. …. And then there’s been times the other way. A video that we were sort of surprised about, “Oh, is this really popular? Wow. Okay.” And before you know it, it’s been on every day for three or four weeks. So the record companies don’t try to pressure you? No. As far as to the Ten Play list. We’re not picking them and they know it. So
