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During Top 40’s worst moments—the time before “Sucker” by the Jonas Brothers—you could look at the monthly PPM ratings and occasionally see some of the market’s powerhouses start to look a…

The HD Radio ads started nearly 15 years ago. They were hard to miss for a while, even when only broadcasters themselves and the most dedicated hobbyists owned an HD radio. The ads tried…

Guest Post by Tony Lorino: As broadcasters, we tend to have a lot more memories about exactly where we were when major news events happened, based on the city we lived in or the station…

For a decade, after the 1983 Motown 25 special and the release of The Big Chill six months later, ‘60s Motown was one of the safest, most mass-appeal things an AC or Oldies station could…

I’ve been giving a lot of thought to current music rotations and the role of callout research vs. other metrics. When pop music was at its worst last year, callout couldn’t do much for…

During the morass of Top 40 product in 2018—the lack of tempo, the repetitiveness of the music, the chopped-up vocal samples, the overall claustrophobia of “trap pop”—there was, in…

I already loved KMJQ (Majic 102.1) Houston. I listened yesterday afternoon, for the first time in a while, and I heard gold that isn’t on every major Adult R&B station—Dazz Band,…

Here’s something you haven’t read in the radio trade publications much recently. “Active Rock is having a moment.” That was Radioinsight publisher Lance Venta’s characterization of the…

There have been stops and starts, but the ‘90s format has now existed on the FM dial a few months longer than the decade itself did. KBZC (The Buzz) Sacramento, Calif., launched…

There was no mention of its significance on the air, but at 12:33 this afternoon, KFOG San Francisco played the current Triple-A hit/Alternative chart record “When Am I Gonna Lose You” by…

Here’s what legendary program director Ron Jacobs wants you to do during a ratings period. Winning, he writes, depends on:“Selling the contest and back-plugging the winners!…

After two to three years in which listeners somehow suffered through the doldrums and the extremes simultaneously, hit music was clearly cycling upwards when we forecast the Summer…