- Tim Martz' Radio Power is asked by the FCC about a Milwaukee translator move-in
- 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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Radio’s Best & Worst: February 8, 2012
In this week’s dial scan, NBC’s “Smash” gets its own online radio station. The late Don Cornelius gets a tribute from hometown WVAZ (V103) Chicago. Laser hair removal spots are everywhere. Morning-after pills are in vending machines. A convenience store has your back, pal. And only one station dares acknowledge “Groundhog Day” twice. It’s “Radio’s Best & Worst.”
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Fresh Listen: Canada’s Border Blasters
Before Detroit's short-lived Alt-rocker “The Bone” went away, it took an unusual swing at rival CIMX (89X), a Canadian licensed station playing 20% government-mandated Canadian music. In doing so, it was probably the first American broadcaster to even think about Cancon as a competitive disadvantage since the ’70s Top 40 heyday of CKLW. So it seemed like a good time for a Fresh Listen to 89X and Top 40 CFLZ (Z101) Buffalo, N.Y., as well as take a look at the current availability of Cancon.
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MDNA: 53 Is The New 42
With Madonna poised for a sales and airplay come back with “Give Me All Your Luvin’,” a reader asks, “How many other 53-year-olds have gotten airplay on CHR radio the way Madonna’s new single looks to be tracking to get?” The answer is that it has happened before—but not very often. And even some of the artists that we think of as particularly enduring started to hit a brick wall at Top 40 in their early 40s. So clearly 53 is the new 42.
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Madonna’s performance was “most-watched Super Bowl entertainment ever”
Madonna may not have rolled around the Super Bowl XLVI stage in a wedding dress, a la the 1984 MTV Video Awards, but she was still belle of the ball during Sunday’s match between the New York Giants and New England Patriots.
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Radio’s Best & Worst: February 2, 2012
In this week’s dial scan: Oldies radio finally makes good in Columbus, Ohio; the cyber-battle for New York Country listeners ends; Frankie Goes To Hollywood’s “Relax” makes it to the Mainstream AC format, while the Talking Heads’ “Psycho Killer” makes it to Oldies. There’s a tornado shelter giveaway and anti-Ryan-Seacrest promos in this week’s “Radio’s Best & Worst.”
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