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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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Lights out at WCSY-AM South Haven, Mich.
The sound of its two 220-foot radio towers crashing to the ground was the final emission from WCSY-AM (940) South Haven, Mich. (serving Hartford, Mich.). Read More
R.I.P.: Wichita radio veteran Rick Gannon
Wichita, Kansas, radio mainstay Rick Gannon has died, reportedly from complications of heart surgery. His 45-year resume included stops at the market’s KLEO-AM, KICT-FM, KQAM-AM and most recently, Entercom’s classic hits KEYN-FM (103.7). Read More
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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Making Moves: Monday, January 30
Falen Bonsett joins the Dave Ryan Morning Show as co-host on Clear Channel CHR KDWB (101.3) Minneapolis, February 8. Falen segues from KWYL (Wild 102.9) Reno… Greg Dunkin and Syd Abel join Cortona's Spanish contemporary WYRE Annapolis, Md.
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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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Clear Channel San Antonio names Chase Murphy OM
Chase Murphy is moving to Texas, to oversee the Clear Channel stations at the company's home base in San Antonio. Murphy takes over for Tony Travatto, now the OM of Clear Channel's cluster in Columbus, Ohio.
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First Listen: WLGX Louisville's Gen-X-Mas
Two years ago, WLGX Louisville took its Adult Hits "Louie-FM" format a generation younger, becoming "Gen-X Radio" Its initial success spurred a format boomlet that would include not just sister Clear Channel stations, but also outlets from Citadel and Entercom (which had already launched a somewhat different '90s-format elsewhere). Now, Guns 'N' … Read More
The First Holiday Format Reader Poll
Since its launch 18 months ago, Radio-Info’s “25+” newsletter has been a place where AC programmers could discuss the all-Christmas format that has become such a significant part of the format. “25+” has been home to programmer discussion on the execution of AC radio, as well as innovative new approaches to all-Christmas radio, and even the …
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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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The All-Christmas Format: Warm (And Fuzzy) Memories
For roughly a decade, it’s been more noteworthy when a Mainstream AC in a major-market doesn’t go all-Christmas between Thanksgiving and the holiday itself. And yet, wall-to-wall holiday music was a radical gesture in the ’90s, first employed primarily on AM or by stations looking for an attention-getting format change stunt.
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Post-Thanksgiving Christmas flips in the Northeast
In Portland, Maine, WYNZ-FM (100.9) is putting aside "Big Hits" and playing Christmas music as "Portland's Home For the Holidays. Also in Maine, Blueberry Broadcasting's WQSS-FM (102.5) in Rockland and Cumulus-owned WEZQ-FM (92.9) in Bangor are now playing Christmas music ...
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The Hardest Working Act In Station Shows: 2011
Who is this fall’s “Hardest Working Act In Station Shows”? Here’s a hint: they come with their own transportation.Every year, we take a look at the roster of acts who are playing radio station holiday shows and other artist events, looking for the artists who are most actively making themselves available for those shows.
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First Listen: Christmas On KTWV (The Wave) Los Angeles
In a week full of holiday format flips, it was still front-page news when Smooth Jazz KTWV Los Angeles became “L.A.’s new Christmas station.” In doing so, The Wave got in ahead of the market’s traditional holiday station, AC KOST. (At this writing, on Monday morning, KOST is still in regular format.) Whenever one of the extant Smooth Jazz s…
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Flagstaff will have a new CHR on Monday
KFSZ Flagstaff, Arizona will flip to CHR as “Hits 106,” on Monday, Nov. 14. Read More
First Listen: U.K.'s Smooth Radio Christmas
You can’t deny the research behind it, but one of the disappointments of the holiday format as heard in on AC radio in the U.S. is how few R&B Christmas classics make the cut.
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Making Moves: Monday, November 7, 2011
Lincoln Financial Media in Miami promotes Stacy Del Valle to Local Sales Manager, overseeing WLYF-FM (101.5) ... Listener Driven Radio (LDR) has its latest affiliate: Bonneville AC "98,7 The Peak" KPKX in Phoenix, which will air the listener-controlled music programming at night for its feature named "You Pick It" ...Around Richmond, Indiana, WHON-…
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Philadelphia's "B-101" will flip to Christmas – but not yet
They're still playing music from Phil Collins, Bon Jovi and Sheryl Crow, but already the WBEB-FM (101.1) website is displaying the colors of Christmas, along with the banner proclaiming they are "Philadelphia's Christmas Station." Adding to the proof that "B-101" will eventually make the holiday flip, a Christmas music poll that asks listeners "wha…
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The Responsibility Of National Radio
In a perfect world, national radio would be a complement to local radio, not a replacement. National super-stations would create more listening by offering consumers more choices, and thus allow the radio industry to create jobs, not eliminate them.
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First Listen: Party 105.3 Long Island
About a decade ago, WKTU New York steered away from Top 40 sister WHTZ (Z100) by playing fewer dance currents and more of the dance classics that had once been the station’s calling card. That left Long Island’s WPTY (Party 105.3) to carry the torch for current dance music as it went through its various ups-and-downs throughout the last decade.…
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