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Remembering Full-Service AC
I wasn't supposed to find full-service AC. It was never for a 13-year-old. Read More
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
WLTW NYC hires Jillian Kempton as APD
Clear Channel’s perennial No. 1 New York station AC WLTW (106.7 Lite FM) hires Jillian Kempton as the station’s new APD.
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American AC Modernizes In Real Time
Recent stats from Nielsen BDSRadio prepared for the Canadian Music Week conference showed that Canada's Mainstream AC stations had become considerably more contemporary since 2007. Some stations, like powerhouse CHFI Toronto, had moved their average era up 11 years in just five years' time.Anecdotally, it seems like America's Mainstream AC stations…
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Tom Kent Radio Network tallies another 10 affiliates
Tom Kent Radio Network has picked up another 10 affiliates for his posse of syndicated programs. They are Garris Communications AC WORG (100.3) Columbia, S.C., (“Lovin’ Life, Livin the 80s”), Stephens Media AC WVLF-FM Watertown, N.Y.
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Canadian AC: Moving In Double Time
How much has Mainstream AC modernized in recent years? In Canada, where the format is slightly more musically aggressive than its U.S.
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Hot ACs and ACs That Intrigued
Recently, Radio-Info.com’s Ross On Radio newsletter has been looking back at the stations that made its annual list of the year’s most intriguing new (or relaunched) stations. As a format constantly in a state of reinvention, AC and Hot AC (as well as the gold-based formats that splintered from them) were an ongoing presence on that list.
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Cleveland Radio Vet Collier Posthumously Gets A Street Named In His Honor
A street in the Cleveland area is being ceremonially re-christened "Chuck Collier Blvd." in honor of the WGAR and WMJI personality who passed away last September. Oak Tree Hill in Independence, Ohio, gets the new name, and is also where the studios of WGAR, WMJI and sister station WTAM are located.
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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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What Happens When A Market Loses Mainstream AC?
When the only Mainstream AC in the market goes away, who benefits?That’s not a question that most programmers would have expected to be confronted with a few years ago. But it has become an issue in several markets over the past few years, most notably in the midwest where longtime AC WLTE (Lite 102.9) Minneapolis, recently became “Buz’n Country”…
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Lineup Changes At Cleveland's WMJI, WGAR
The Cleveland Board of Radio-Info.com is talking these moves, here. Two of Clear Channel's Cleveland stations have added air personalities. Read More
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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Tias Schuster shifts from Entercom-Norfolk to Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C.
Tias Schuster takes on OM/PD duties next month at Entercom top 40 WFBC (B93.7) and AC WSPA (Magic 98.9) Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C., moving from sister rhythmic CHR WNVZ (Z104) Norfolk, where he was PD, Digital Content Director and afternoon personality. Schuster replaces Chase Murphy, who segued to Clear Channel San Antonio as FM Operations Manag…
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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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Liz Cavanaugh Exits Curb Records After 20 Years
Liz Cavanaugh has exited Curb Records after more than 20 years with the label. Her job as VP of promotion/media relations has been eliminated, and the publicity end outsourced to a Nashville firm.
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November 2011 PPM: The AC and Hot AC National Recaps
Mainstream ACWRCH Hartford retains the national AC crown for the third straight month, and the seventh month overall for the year. Pittsburgh’s WSHH makes the biggest jump into the top ten with a 6.8–7.7 move.NOVEMBER’S TOP 10 PPM SHARES – Adult Contemporary
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' Ro… 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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