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The Next Big Format: Recurrents
Over the last few years, we've seen new radio formats start to coalesce around something beyond musical genres. First there was tempo. Then there was discovery. Read More
Wilhite Joins Entercom K.C. Production Staff
Afternoon driver Darren Wilhite exits Eagle Communications' Hot AC KKJO St Joseph, Mo., today, and on Monday starts a new job at Entercom's Kansas City stations doing production under cluster production director Mark Groves. He had been part of the KKJO airstaff since May 2011.
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The "Almost 40" Station
One of the interesting aspects of our recent "Virtual Road Trip" listening has been the increased profile of the "Almost 40 Station" in the Adult Top 40 world. The line between Adult and Mainstream Top 40 is, of course, always fluid.
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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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Fresh Listen: KLCK (Click 98.9) Seattle
When KSCF (Sophie 103.7) San Diego was launched in 2007, it seemed like a new-generation take on the Modern ACs of ten years earlier. The late ’00s had their own mini-boomlet in female acoustic singer-songwriters, but Sophie also began with a teen pop/punk aspect as well.
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Modern AC's Time Is When?
Among its many other accomplishments, Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill" did a lot to propel the nascent Modern AC format into existence. Morissette wasn't just a core artist, she was also a strong female P.O.V., which, along with an overall proliferation of female singer-songwriters, helped spur a format where women were on hand in mornings …
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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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Fresh Listen: Happy Birthday, Bob FM
When CFWM (Bob 99.9) Winnipeg, Manitoba launched on March 4, 2002, playing “’80s, ’90s, and whatever,” Oldies stations were still trying to figure out how to play the ’70s, while Classic Rock stations were reluctant to move too heavily into Foreigner, Journey, Pat Benatar, or any of that late ’70s/early ’80s corporate rock that many PDs of a certai…
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Final Listen: WABB
WABB Mobile, Ala., doesn’t quite go all the way back to the beginning of the rock era as a Top 40 station. As we discovered while researching the CHR format’s longest running stations last year, there was a period where WABB-AM had dropped Top 40 and WABB-FM had not yet segued away from AOR.
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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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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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Holiday 2011 PPM: The Hot AC National Recaps
WKRQ Cincinnati tops the Hot AC list for the third survey this year. It’s evident to see how challenging the Holiday book is for the format when you consider that WKRQ also had the largest increase in the nation among Hot ACs with a rise of just half a share.HOLIDAY BOOK’S TOP 10 PPM SHARES – Hot AC
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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December 2011 PPM: The Hot AC National Recaps
WRMF West Palm Beach tops all Hot ACs for only the second time this year.DECEMBER’S TOP 10 PPM SHARES – Hot AC
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
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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With Lyrical Edits, The Logic Is Obscured
Three months ago, a reporter for all-News KYW Philadelphia called with an interesting question: why was there such inconsistency in the way that radio stations edited current hits? My best guess at the time was that as AC and Hot AC stations started to take more of their product from Mainstream CHR, there were more hits with potential lyric issues …
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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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