Sean’s Top 100 Songs of 2023
My personal No. 1 song of 2023 won’t be hard for Ross on Radio readers or friends to guess. I...
Read moreSean Ross is a radio business researcher, programming consultant, conference speaker, and a veteran of radio trade journalism at Billboard, Radio & Records, M Street Journal, and others. For more than a decade, his weekly writings have been collected in the Ross On Radio newsletter; subscribe for free here. https://tinyurl.com/mhcnx4u
My personal No. 1 song of 2023 won’t be hard for Ross on Radio readers or friends to guess. I...
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Read moreIn 2023, I had a lot of long-held beliefs that were shaken, if not completely sunk. One was that a...
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Read moreI couldn’t stop listening to R&B Oldies WXBS-HD3 (Foxy 106.9) St. Louis last week. There’s a station like that once...
Read moreI could have waited for the “Intriguing Stations of 2023” article, coming to Ross On Radio in early January. But...
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Read moreIn March, Clarke Ingram wrote me (and then told Facebook friends) that he was officially “unretired” from radio. Ingram had...
Read moreI’ve been spending more time with airchecks of classic radio lately. It’s not just radio geekery, although I’ve got nothing...
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