Radio mix-show format (Hot Mix 5 model)

CTL-E-0625 · Technology · 1981–1988

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WBMX's Hot Mix 5 turned the radio mix show — live DJ blends on 'Saturday Night Live Ain't No Jive' — into a broadcast technology for breaking house records. The mix-show format let producers test records on air before pressing, collapsing the distance between club play and broadcast — a Chicago-specific feedback loop.

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Merged into canonical KG 2026-10-03 from MUSIC-001; source entity IDs: CTL-DR-MUSIC-001:music-001-node-080; source research type(s): technology. Description completed 2026-10-03 from the source research record (claims) during the KG completion pass.

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http://music.hyperreal.org/library/sample_and_hold.html

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