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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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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…
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Girls With Guitars: From Country To Pop And Back
In 1994, a few things happened that shifted the balance of power between Country and Top 40 radio. Country, concerned about the possible opportunity for a more gold-based format, started digging deeper in its library again, thus disenfranchising some of the listeners who hadn’t been around long enough to know those songs.
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Under 30 And In AC Radio
If you’re under 30 and working in AC or Hot AC radio, you may be one of those rare broadcasters who gravitated to the format at an early age, when your peers were still listening to Top 40 or Alternative. Or you might be there because that’s where the opportunity was—gamely trying to learn the music and relate to a demo that is at least a few years…
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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.
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Ross On Records: We've Got More Soul
James Morrison must be watching Adele’s U.S. success with interest.
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Fresh Listen: KMXB (Mix 94.1) Las Vegas
The ramp-up to a major station concert isn’t always a guaranteed ratings winner. Sometimes the boost comes afterwards when the programming goes back to normal.
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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.
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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…
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"Hit Music Now" Takes over WGMY in Tallahassee
In Tallahassee, Clear Channel has flipped Hot AC WGMY “My 107.1” to CHR, and is calling it “Hit Music Now.” It will continue to run the syndicated Elvis Duran in morning drive, but also adds the voice tracking talents of JJ from co-owned WHTZ “Z100” New York, in afternoon drive. At night, Billy The Kidd is piped in from KHKS Dallas. Read More
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.…
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August 2011 PPM: Hot AC and AC National Recaps
The nation’s top three ACs remain the same from last month. Entering the top ten at number four is Miami’s WLYF, which had its best book in over a year.AUGUST’S TOP 10 PPM SHARES – Adult Contemporary
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