Ross On Radio is a twice-weekly analysis of radio programming and music from Sean Ross, who has the knowledge to relate the past, convey the present, and look to the future.
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Today’s ‘90s-Based Alternative Rockers: Lots of Critics... And One Happy PD • Why Are Labels Still Working To Halt Airplay? • Readers On Radio: Why Younger Country Cume Won’t Convert This Time
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Is Kenny Chesney Hearing More New Music Than Your Music Director? • First Listen: The ‘80s, ‘90s And Edmonton’s “Now 102.3” • Final Listen? The U.K.’s BBC 6Music • Radio's Best & Worst
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This Ain’t The Summer Of Garth: Why Increased Favorability For Country Isn’t (Yet) Growing The Core Audience • If Your Morning Team Stays, Can They Mention The Calls Occasionally? • Fresh Listen: L.A.’s Alternative Battle, KROQ vs. KYSR
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Pandora + Taylor Swift = New Country Format? • Industry Reaction To Pandora … Among Those Who Follow It • First Listen: KJTZ (Tejano Country) Abilene, Texas
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A “Music Discovery” Site Plays The Country Hits • Are Streaming Restrictions Taking Country Away From An International Audience? • The Jock Break That Made Two People Want To Get Into Radio
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First Listen: WENN Birmingham, Ala. • Readers On Radio: HD, Heftel, and “Double Lovin’” • Love and Theft and the Whole Damn Thing
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Bill Tanner Remembers Cecil Heftel • Fresh Listen: “Today’s Best Music”—The More Current But Not Quite Mainstream Top 40 WPLJ New York • First Listen: Blake Lawrence Really Chills Out With Chilltrax
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More than three years ago, I bought a $99 Radio Shack HD Radio. Like many people, I was taken aback at the slapdash nature of so many of the HD-2 and HD-3 multicast stations. At a time when stations barely had the resources to run their primary signals well, I thought it might make more sense to...
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Fire Up The Time Machine Again • Readers On Radio: On The Swift Proliferation Of Young Country, Bad Websites • Healing For Haiti • They Love L.A.
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Readers Say “Hallelujah” On Event Records • Readers On Radio II: What’s On Your Website? • Radio's Best and Worst
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A Better Way To Acknowledge Pop Culture • First Listen: Circle City Rock Radio • Monday The Webmaster Slept In
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First Listen: CBS’ Grammy Radio • Readers On Radio: A Version Therapy • As veteran morning teams continue to “disappear from the Website,” thoughts on talent in the PPM era • Songs That Changed The Radio In The 2000s
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First Listen: KZAL (Smooth 94.7) Wenatchee, Wash. • Readers On Radio: Riding The Wave • Off The Air, Everywhere
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First the good news, even though we devoted an entire column last week to library-driven radio stations that were intriguing in the previous decade, it wasn’t hard to find a like number of Intriguing Radio Stations of the ‘00s based in newer or emerging music. That said, while most of those gold-based stations are still among us, many of the Part II stations were intriguing more for their potential than their sustained success. At decade’s end, PPM (or just its specter, in many markets) has turned things upside down in a way that is far from shaking out. So expect the industry to find some lasting utility in some of the formats that programmers don’t consider viable this week.
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