The MAPL Test
6/2/202640 min
Canada reshaped its music industry with a quirky radio rule that changed who got heard.
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First 90 secondsAlan Cross· Soundbite0:00
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Speaker 20:28
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Speaker 30:33
You hold my hand.
Speaker 20:35
Woo!
Speaker 30:35
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Chris Berube· Host0:46
This is 99% Invisible. I'm Chris Berube, sitting in for Roman Mars. [upbeat music] Back in January, about 10 million people tuned into the hockey romance series Heated Rivalry. Even I watched it, because the show is made in Canada by Canadians, and I'm Canadian. And the Canadian-ness, it's kinda everywhere. The main characters in the show go to a cottage at one point, not a cabin. One of the hockey studs has an interview with a journalist in pretty passable high school French. Winnipeg is mentioned. Look, it's all there in the text.
Max Collins1:22
But if you ask me, the most Canadian part of the series is the music.
Chris Berube· Host1:26
That's producer and fellow Canuck, Max Collins.