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More survey comments from the 2004 KZION listener survey.

My work situation was/is pretty bad. My co-workers had decided to make my life as difficult as possible. This was based on one of their hatred for Mormons…I HAD to do something, and using headphones and appropriate volume allows me to hear the music more and them less…I’m 46, a widower, and feel very much alone in the world just now. KZION is helping me to cope. God bless you for your efforts.

I love the detailed song information, (especially the detailed list of recently played songs), the fact that we can request our favorite songs, the increasing amount of music that you have available, the fact that you play only sabbath appropriate music on Sunday, the new website with so many good features (hotlist, requested songs, a timer letting me know how much time until I can request again, links to artist homepages, etc) and the fact that it is commercial free, continuously playing beautiful music. I listen to it every night as I write in my journal or when I am studying my scriptures.

It’s loaded – you get everything here. I love the album cover pics, the album information, the fact that I can buy it. The site is interactive- it’s genius.

Well, if you say so.

Nothing against the station personally, we probably just need more LDS artists that produce something other than inspirational music. I think the proportions of music should be more mixed. With the majority of the music falling in the inspirational category, and not much rock/contemporary to balance it, I hear more ‘sappy’ music during the week than I would prefer. This is the reason my wife prefers not to listen to KZION.

I agree. I would love to have more contemporary LDS music but it is difficult to find. Those that create music outside the inspirational genre typically do not market themselves or their music as “LDS”. They are looking for a wide range of listeners and so a lot of them do not submit their music to KZION.

Some of the music is just a little too contemporary/rock for my liking.

It’s give and take. There are occasional songs that I don’t really care for but KZION is no different then any other radio station you listen to. There are always some songs that you wish would end early.

Not being able to request an artist because they have played recently—think we should be able to play a repeat artist (not repeating the same song is ok).

If you request three songs in a row from the same artist there are going to be listeners that do not like that artists music. They may sit through one of their songs, but not three in a row. One thing I have learned in the four years of running KZION. If requests are not limited, chaos will result. If you request your favorite artist on Tuesday’s you’ll get two in a row.

I don’t like to see or read rude or negative comments about a song or artist. Constructive comments are fine. I just expect people to be more polite and courteous in sharing comments.

Randomize on the playlists does not work correctly

KZION does not use a random playlist. I use a complicated set of rules that determine rotation based on the weight of the song. I go into detail in an interview I did with A Motley Vision.