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- The Birth of Urban EMO
- MDNA: 53 Is The New 42
- Digital Marketing Campaigns that Inspire
- Eric Church Reflects On A Whirlwind Year, And What's Next
- Cincinnati: Bill Cunningham Taking TV Show National on the CW
- Findlay, OH: WKXA Going Country Just in Time for Valentine's Day
- Jackson Dell Weaver Gets GM Nod at KGY/Olympia, WA.
- "WOW" Veteran Des Moines Morning Talents Lou & Heather Resign from KWQW
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Some Stations Catch Super Bowl Fever, While Others Will Sit Out The Big Game
Excitement for this weekend’s Super Bowl is rising, and radio stations are helping raise the heat with a variety of fun promotions and events centered around the big game. But not every station is staging an event this year. Dozens report they’re doing nothing at all. For some, it’s because the NFL makes it difficult to promote. Others say the current trend has fans favoring smaller house parties over large viewing events, and they’re planning accordingly.
Backseat Songwriters Have Their Say
Is there a country song you think could have been just a teeny bit better if the writers would have only changed one word, or tweaked a phrase? It seems almost everybody has a pet peeve lyric or two, often involving songs that were some of the format’s biggest hits. We took the question to Facebook, and got back some colorful—and some curious—responses.
KFKF Kansas City’s All-Christmas Format Experiment Pays Off In A Big Way
When the all-Christmas field in Kansas City suddenly became wide open, KFKF jumped in and tried it last fall. The results were huge in both ratings and revenue. The station turned in what PD Dale Carter calls a “dominating performance,” which made a believer out of a skeptic. “I think Christmas fits country,” Carter now says. “I buy into that now more than I did before.” But the trick will be keeping some of those new listeners.
Anatomy Of A Hit: Eric Church’s First No. 1
For the EMI Records Nashville team, the title of Eric Church’s current tour is appropriate, since it took them plenty of “blood, sweat and beers”—not to mention six years—to land Church his first No. 1, as they worked to overcome concerns that his music was a little too edgy for the format. But with his newest single, EMI VP of promotion Angela Lange says, radio “wanted it as bad as we did.”
After A Surprising Layoff, Becky Brenner Now Controls Her Own Destiny
Armed with 35 years of experience in radio, Becky Brenner embarked on a new adventure this month as VP/consulting partner at Albright & O’Malley Consulting. The move follows a painful layoff last summer—the first job loss of her remarkable career. In our Stark Country Interview, Brenner shares her thoughts on the state of the industry, and extols the joys of now having control over her own destiny, and being part of a “hot new trio.”
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