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Sunday, May 13, 2012

Remembering Full-Service AC

I wasn't supposed to find full-service AC. It was never for a 13-year-old. Read More

Sunday, April 29, 2012

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

Tuesday, April 24, 2012

WLTW NYC hires Jillian Kempton as APD

WLTW Clear Channel’s perennial No. 1 New York station AC WLTW (106.7 Lite FM) hires Jillian Kempton as the station’s new APD. Read More

Monday, April 9, 2012

American AC Modernizes In Real Time

WLTW 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… Read More

Friday, March 30, 2012

Tom Kent Radio Network tallies another 10 affiliates

Tom Kent 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. Read More

Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Canadian AC: Moving In Double Time

Nielson How much has Mainstream AC modernized in recent years? In Canada, where the format is slightly more musically aggressive than its U.S. Read More

Monday, March 26, 2012

Hot ACs and ACs That Intrigued

KBFF (Live 95.5) Portland, Oregon logo 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. Read More

Thursday, March 1, 2012

Cleveland Radio Vet Collier Posthumously Gets A Street Named In His Honor

Chuck Collier 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. Read More

Sunday, February 26, 2012

Pop PDs’ Adventures In Country

Country Radio Seminar generic logo 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. Read More

Monday, February 13, 2012

On Valentine’s Day, Stations Heart Listeners

WTMX 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. Read More

Monday, February 6, 2012

The Softest Songs On AC Radio

Chris DeBurgh 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 23, 2012

What Happens When A Market Loses Mainstream AC?

WLTE-FM 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”… Read More

Monday, January 23, 2012

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

Friday, January 13, 2012

Fresh Listen: WROZ (The Rose) Lancaster, Pa.

WROZ FM 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

Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Tias Schuster shifts from Entercom-Norfolk to Greenville-Spartanburg, S.C.

Entercom logo 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… Read More

Monday, January 9, 2012

B101, K-EZ, KFKF Top Holiday Format Reader Poll Winners

WBEB 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, January 2, 2012

Liz Cavanaugh Exits Curb Records After 20 Years

Liz Cavanaugh 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. Read More

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

November 2011 PPM: The AC and Hot AC National Recaps

25+ 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 OCT NOV Calls Market OCT NOV 1 1 WRCH-FM Hartford 10.9 11.6 … Read More

Monday, December 5, 2011

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

Monday, December 5, 2011

The First Holiday Format Reader Poll

25+ Present 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 … Read More

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