Country vs. CHR: It Starts with The Chart
January is typically a month of ratings rebounds for any format that is not Mainstream AC. But in Nielsen’s PPM...
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January is typically a month of ratings rebounds for any format that is not Mainstream AC. But in Nielsen’s PPM...
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Read moreThat Thing With Rich Appel, the weekly syndicated show targeted to ’60s/’70s Oldies stations, does a lot of countdowns, including...
Read more“It read like the sort of thing that I should be implacably against,” wrote industry observer James Cridland about Futuri...
Read more(This story was updated on Feb. 27, to reflect my listening to Spotify's DJ.) Last Tuesday, YouTube Music announced the...
Read moreWhen January PPM ratings were released, Classic Rock WAXQ (Q104.3) New York was second in the market, up 5.1-5.9 6-plus....
Read moreFor Oldies programmers, the ’60s and ’70s were very much not the same era. As a lifelong listener of the...
Read moreLast week, I asked readers to suggest international stations to check out for World Radio Day on Monday, February 13....
Read moreWhen Hubbard’s KPNW Seattle flipped from Country KNUC to Triple-A on Feb. 14 at 9 a.m., crosstown non-comm KEXP’s morning...
Read moreI heard from several friends who were experimenting with ChatGPT over the weekend. A buddy of mine asked ChatGPT to...
Read moreI always enjoy Rubber City Radio’s Country WQMX Akron, Ohio, when I hear it. This time when I listened, for...
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