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273 ➡ ALIVE : Pearl Jam
282 ➡ KNOCKIN DA BOOTS: H-Town
301 ➡ LOW: Cracker
016 ➡ SEX AND CANDY: Marcy Playground
732 ➡ PLOWED: Sponge
Got a request? Call 1-900-THE-BOX1!
Miami residents, call (305) BOX-RQST or 269-7778.
(18 or younger, ask for parent permission before you call!)
This is The Box: Music You Can Control.
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MIAMI, FLORIDA 1990S
Jobs weren't supposed to be fun...or so Rease Renault thought.
About seven months ago, Rease had gone from a waitressing job at a local Denny's to working request hotlines at The Box, a music choice channel centered in the heart of Miami.
The Box had recently gone nationwide from its small home front; despite its bootleg looks, it differed from MTV in the way that viewers can call in requests for any song at any time...as many times as they wanted.
As far as anyone was concerned, The Box was going to shape how America saw music in an innovative manner.
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At the Miami office, 11 AM was usually regarded as a slower time request wise. Sometimes, the song menu would stay up for 15 minutes; today had been one of those days, but in the last 20 minutes, multiple requests had been fulfilled, keeping the menu off the channel.
Rease, along with her friends Bianca Neidermeyer and Hope Epstein, were in charge of phone requests. As they took the requests, it was up to Foster Floyd to log the request, as well as enter payments. (Payments, depending on how "hot" the song requested was doing, varied from 99 cents to $2.99.)
As Marcy Playground's Sex and Candy wrapped up, Rease's phone rang.
"This is The Box, music you can control. What song are you requesting today?"
"Uh, number 273, please." A young male voice piped up.
Rease looked down at the week's list. "You're looking at number 273, Alive by Pearl Jam?"
"Yeah. I just can't get enough of it on the radio." The guy chuckled, "So, I had to request it on TV too."
"Never can get enough of Mr. Vedder. That would be $1.99." Rease said.
