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Monday, February 6, 2012

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… Read More

Monday, January 30, 2012

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. Read More

Tuesday, January 17, 2012

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… Read More

Friday, January 13, 2012

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… Read More

Monday, January 9, 2012

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… Read More

Monday, December 12, 2011

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. Read More

Monday, December 5, 2011

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. Read More

Monday, November 21, 2011

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… Read More

Thursday, October 13, 2011

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. Read More

Monday, October 3, 2011

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. Read More

Saturday, September 24, 2011

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… Read More

Monday, September 19, 2011

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.… Read More

Thursday, September 1, 2011

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 lines ever: "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 quick… Read More

Wednesday, July 20, 2011

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). Read More

Tuesday, July 19, 2011

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 … Read More

Saturday, July 9, 2011

First Listen: AARP Internet Radio

You’re 48 years old. You loved Smooth Jazz, but it doesn’t exist in your market anymore. Read More

Tuesday, June 21, 2011

Fresh Listen: KNIN Wichita Falls, Texas

Since it was Townsquare Media's KNIN Wichita Falls, Texas, PD Chris Callaway whose complaints about the increased similarity between Mainstream and Rhythmic Top 40 prompted this week’s column on the Top 40 chart, and whether it's driven by reporting status or available product, it seemed like the time for a Fresh Listen to this heritage CHR.KNIN, a… Read More

Saturday, June 18, 2011

"Uptempo" The Format: Three Approaches

It's been one of the longtime contradictions of the Hot AC format: the station that "picks you up and makes you feel good," doesn't always, really. PDs really just took it for granted that listeners would understand that to mean "even when we play ballads, we still exude general positivity."But over the last year or so, the concept of stations base… Read More

Monday, June 13, 2011

The Radio-Info Interview: Michael Bolton

When Michael Bolton finally got a chance to sing with his hero Ray Charles, “the first words out of my mouth were ‘the student finally meets the master,’ and I saw him break into this ear-to-ear grin.” These days, Bolton is the one working with artists who “were hearing my hits when they were teenagers.” His new Sony Legacy duet album, “Gems,” in s… Read More

Monday, May 23, 2011

First Listen: WNNF (Journey 94.1) Cincinnati

One of the most interesting things about Cumulus’ new Journey 94.1 Cincinnati, the former WNNF (Frequency 94.1) is that it’s co-owned with successful Mainstream AC WRRM (Warm 98) and heritage Oldies/Greatest Hits outlet WGRR. That makes for a pretty tight landscape—with Oldies stations sounding a lot like ’70s-based AC these days, it’s not so eas… Read More

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