Binnie Media launched Soft Oldies "99.3 The Wave" WBQQ Kennebunk ME today. As first indicated in our 11/19 Domain Insight, the station, which had been simulcasting Country "99.9 The Wolf" ...
Editor's note: I first wrote this story five years ago, already after the Marvin Gaye estate had already won a judgment against "Blurred Lines." I'm republishing it now that the ...
For the last 15 years, working extensively in the Classic Hits format has meant two things. Hurriedly scheduling in more music by artists after the news of their passing, as ...
Beginning with its title, the new Paramount+ documentary, Sometimes When We Touch: The Reign, Ruin, and Resurrection of Soft Rock is built around a timeline where an entire genre became ...
After closing on the $301,000 purchase of 93.7 WKEY-FM Key West at the start of the month, William ‘Buddy Shula’ Ostrander’s Radio One Key West flipped the station to Mellow ...
WLML (Legends 100.3) West Palm Beach was one of my Intriguing Stations of 2014, not the least for launching an Adult Standards station in 2014, particularly one that concentrated on ...
When there wasn’t actually an FM broadcast station called KNX-FM Los Angeles, there was KNXfm93.com. It was one of two different online tribute stations to the long-defunct “Mellow Rock” KNX-FM ...
Three years ago, Ultimate Classic Rock’s Matt Wardlaw and Cleveland Scene’s Jeff Niesel wrote an extensive oral history for that publication of legendary rock (and, for a while, top 40) ...
When I asked readers for their top five favorites among our Lost Factor leaders, some stuck mostly with songs from their favorite era; a few had a spread from the ...
Throughout our year of Lost Factor calculations, it has generally been easy to say why some big or almost-big hits are missing from the radio now. Some genres — female ...