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Handicapping the Summer Song of 2019
Typically, I try to come to the Memorial Day preview of the year’s Song of Summer candidates with as definitive a list as possible. I reach out to radio programmers to ask what has…
Fresh Listen: KOKY Little Rock
In my effort to cover as much turf as possible, there are radio stations that I don’t find the time or remember to listen to enough.
They’re the stations that I always enjoy when I hear…
Radio Dream Teams, “The Night Shift,” And Scritti Politti: Craig Allen and Anne Gress On Radio
There are no two people more enthusiastic about radio than those at the helm of “The Night Shift with Craig Allen,” the new Classic Hits evening show from Compass Media that…
Number One For New Country? Here’s Three That Aren’t
If the proliferation of Soft AC pop formats says something about the music available to Top 40 radio, it probably also means something that two different friends of Ross On Radio sent links…
What I Learned Scheduling Hot AC
Over the last decade, I’ve mostly scheduled Classic Hits stations. I was excited when an opportunity to fill in at a Hot AC for a few months came along. Readers know I’ve been critical of…
HD Radio – Too Much, Too Little, Too Late?
It’s been well over a decade since the first HD Radio receivers went on sale to consumers in the United States, and we have come a long way with the variety and availability of receivers -…
Decoding The FCC’s New Translator Rules
For owners of FM translators - and the consultants like me who specialize in helping them - the FCC's rules about determining whether or not a translator is causing interference have long…
Five Powers And What They Say About Today’s Hits
It’s been a while since CHR radio played more than 4-5 powers (if that), and yet even filling those slots has been legitimately hard for most programmers during the format’s recent travails.…
First Listen: Sirius XM’s Pandora Now
One fascinating aspect in the merger of SiriusXM and Pandora, and one surprisingly not covered elsewhere, is how different their programming profiles were. Pandora was conceived in music…
Stiffs on a Plane (And Elsewhere)
Appropriately enough, my plane was taxiing to the gate when I found myself tagged in a post about another airplane ride. Radio promotions veteran Paige Nienaber was talking about the ‘80s…
First Listen: Country Hits Radio
Country radio is a puzzle at the moment for a lot of U.S. programmers. “New Country” is still the dominant positioner, but there’s a clear lack of excitement among listeners and broadcasters…
Fresh Listen: WGRR and WRIT
I’ve devoted a lot of column inches to those Classic Hits stations that are aggressively pushing into the ‘90s and 2000s—WCBS-FM New York, KRTH (K-Earth 101) Los Angeles, and especially KOLA…
