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The 25+ Road Trip, Part II
Generally, you remember a radio road trip by the current song that you hear punching from station to station. (The exception was in the early '90s when Top 40 was on the wane and Oldies stations were popping up everywhere; on one road trip, the two combined and the most-heard song was "Unchained Melody.") When you undertake an AC/Hot AC road trip (… Read More
The 25+ Road Trip, Part I
It’s been 15 years since it was necessary to actually go on a driving trip to listen to out-of-the-market radio. Almost everything is available on-line, but if you use radio online the way I do (monitoring whichever client I need to hear, whoever has just launched, and then maybe some exotic stations for fun), it’s possible to lose the sense of mar…
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Pop PDs’ Adventures In Country
For most AC readers, it’s hard to imagine a format where last week’s No. 1 song is no longer among their most played.
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On Valentine’s Day, Stations Heart Listeners
For AC and Hot AC stations, Valentine’s Day is at least the second most wonderful time of year. It’s a holiday with a natural association with AC radio.
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The Softest Songs On AC Radio
What are the softest songs on AC?A few weeks ago, we sought out the hardest-rocking songs at Mainstream AC, a format whose always-brightening feel and increasing emphasis on the '80s is allowing even Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Relax" and Loverboy's "Lovin' Every Minute Of It" to play on some stations' all-'80s weekends. The flipside of the format…
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Jay Michaels Mixes Up KDMX, Khloe Kardashian Helps
When Jay Michaels landed the PD post five months ago at Clear Channel’s KDMX (Mix 102.9) Dallas, his mandate was to make the longtime Hot AC more than a female-friendly background companion. Instead, he aimed to make the station a lifestyle.Mix is already trending up in PPM, up 3.6–3.7–4.0 in the Holiday PPM report.
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The Hardest Rockin’ Songs At AC
From “In The Air Tonight” to “I Gotta Feeling,” Mainstream AC stations have always played records that seemed dauntingly edgy as currents. It’s the nature of a format that brings new listeners into its target audience.And yet some Mainstream AC stations still have the power to surprise, throwing in rock titles that aren’t much “harder” than “In The…
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Fresh Listen: WROZ (The Rose) Lancaster, Pa.
Hall Communications’ WROZ (The Rose) Lancaster, Pa., isn’t only the surprise winner in the Small Market AC category of Radio-Info.com/25+’s first Holiday Format Reader’s Poll, it’s also a different sounding AC station. As heard on several occasions since coming out of holiday music, The Rose sounds comfortably planted in the bright AC posit…
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B101, K-EZ, KFKF Top Holiday Format Reader Poll Winners
Heritage Mainstream AC outlets WBEB (B101) Philadelphia and KESZ (K-EZ) Phoenix are among the major honorees in this year’s first Holiday Radio Readers’ Poll from Radio-Info.com and its AC newsletter, 25+. The year’s top non-AC prize went to KFKF (Country 94.1) Kansas City.B101, a longtime AC powerhouse, was the winner of Best Mainstream FM A…
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Holiday Format Reader Poll Nominations Announced
Nearly 100 stations have been nominated in the first Radio-Info.com Holiday Format Reader Poll. Stations are nominated in eight categories and include stations on FM, AM, satellite radio and on new platforms, as well as in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.
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Is Hot AC's Balance Shifting Again?
A year ago, the CHR success of “Turbo-Pop” and an ever increasing amount of Rhythmic Pop lured Hot AC closer to Mainstream Top 40’s orbit. Now, there are signs of the Adult Top 40 format moving back to its traditional pop/rock/singer-songwriter sound of the last 15 years.
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Fresh Listen: WOXL (Mix 96.5) Asheville, N.C.
When “25+” took its recent look at being “Under 30 And In AC Radio,” one of the readers who responded was Josh Strickland, PD of Saga’s “bright AC”/Triple-A combo WOXL (Mix 96.5)/W251AO (98.1 The River) Asheville, N.C. Mix 96.5 celebrates its third birthday as an AC station in December, following a long stint in Oldies and Classic Hit…
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Who Owns The ’80s In Your Market?
The ’80s have been a factor recently for almost every format on the adult radio landscape. Hot ACs are deciding whether to ankle them altogether.
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Flashback Listen: Four Legendary AC Stations
If you want to raise eyebrows with how much AC radio has changed, you only have to go back a year or two. So imagine what turning the radio back 30 years looks like.
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Fresh Listen: New York’s AC/Hot AC Battle
CHR wars may get all the attention, but at the moment, a lot of the excitement in New York radio is the jockeying for position between the market’s Mainstream and Hot ACs. In fact, in many ways, the relationship between those three stations recalls an ’80s CHR battle.In recent months:CBS Radio’s WWFS (Fresh 102.7) has taken up the rapidly pro…
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Where Should AC Get Its Music? And When?
It’s an interesting contradiction:Rihanna’s “Every Girl (In The World)” was a hit song that many successful Mainstream ACs acknowledged, even when doing so was a sonic stretch. Like Usher’s “DJ Got Us Falling In Love,” it was more aggressive than the rest of the music on most ACs, but it was also too popular with adult women for many PDs to ignore.…
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First Listen: CFLZ (Ed FM) St. Catharines, Ontario
In the history of the Adult Hits format, CIXL (The Giant) St. Catharines, Ontario, had the distinction of one of the best positioning linesever: "If it was big then, its Giant now." But the Giant was also one of the few Canadian stations during the mid-'00s Bob- and Jack-FM blitz that never gained even momentary traction, segueing relatively quickl…
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Alan Burns: “Online music streamers are not eroding radio usage"
Alan Burns & Associates is ready to present the results of its second annual survey of female listeners to AC and CHR. Burns is offering the first of four free webinars tomorrow (7/21).
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Rad Messick will program Citadel Media's "Classic Hits" format
Messick programmed in markets such as Tampa, Orlando, West Palm Beach, Jacksonville and Cincinnati, and was most recently Senior VP at Broadcast Architecture. Citadel Media's Senior VP of Programming and Distribution Carl Anderson says "Rad brings unparalleled expertise and a strategic understanding of adult formats to our Classic Hits brand...the …
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First Listen: AARP Internet Radio
You’re 48 years old. You loved Smooth Jazz, but it doesn’t exist in your market anymore.
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