[James2001]

Reminds me of the Music:Fun:Life era of the TLRC stations where on the ‘Workday Text and Request’ you could choose ANY song you wanted (via premium rate text) and it’d get played, but only if it it had already coincidentally been scheduled on the log in advance.

Cue lots of annoyed listeners running up their phone bills trying to request songs that weren’t amongst the 200 or so in rotation, and so would never get played.

Reminds me of a time in the mid-00s where our local station had a feature on their website where you could choose to "request" a song, only the choice of songs was a quite small list- quite clearly those that had already been playlisted for that day. The illusion of choice, eh? At least there weren't premium rate texts or phone calls involved.