The Stream Girls
Music industry veterans and streaming innovators Sandy Shore + Donna K. Phillips spill the tea, shape the narrative and shoot straight on this modern music industry podcast. This isn’t just a look back at how the SmoothJazz.com Global founders got here — it’s a roadmap for where things are going. It will serve to advise independents to understand the shifts, avoid the traps, embrace the tools, and build sustainable careers in a world where the rules change constantly. Sandy and Donna lived the past, and they're shaping the present, and ready to guide artists into the future.
Episodes
In the 1990s, a single consultancy held the keys to several dozen Smooth Jazz stations nationwide — and they used that power to shrink playlists, edit singles, cut solos, and reshape careers. In this episode, The Stream Girls pull back the curtain on the radio firm that reduced a 2,000–3,000 song ecosystem into a 300‑song carousel and told artists to edit themselves or get left off the air.We revisit a tour bus moment w...
This episode dives into the underbelly of commercial radio in the '80's and '90s — the promoters, the labels, the consultants, the pressure, and the payola‑adjacent culture that shaped what listeners heard on the air.
At 19, Sandy was a music director and on‑air talent at a Top 40 radio station, getting offered everything from shoes to gear to “favors” in exchange for early music adds.
The title of this episode co...
In Episode 2 of The Stream Girls, Sandy takes us back to the 1990s — a decade when Smooth Jazz was thriving, audiences were loyal, and terrestrial radio was supposed to be the heartbeat of every community. Instead, it became a revolving door of broken promises, format flips, and corporate chaos. And after living through four station flips, Sandy finally said the words that would change everything: Radio Sucks.That was the mom...
Only in the music business can you be locked out of a radio station one night and nearly become Clint Eastwood’s business partner the next — and that’s exactly the kind of unpredictable, unbelievable real life situations that Sandy Shore and Donna K. Phillips recount.
The pilot episode sets the tone for a podcast built on decades of lived experience, hard‑won lessons, and a front‑row seat to the evolution of moder...
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