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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…

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,…

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…

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…

In early 2007, Top 40 was on a rebound and WHTZ (Z100) New York was again one of the most influential stations in America. That was in part because, since the early ‘00s, Z100 had been…

What did Country radio do right in its last peak year? Recently, Country Aircheck spotlighted PPM figures from Jon Miller at Nielsen Audio showing that Country shares shot up in…

I would have posted this article an hour ago. But I kept going back to KDRI (The Drive) Tucson, Ariz., veteran programmer Bobby Rich’s take on the soft oldies format, because I wanted to…