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The Year Without R&R
It’s been a year since the last issue of Radio & Records, a realization that comes as almost as much of a surprise as the sudden closing of the publication itself. R&R was a big part of my education in the radio business. Read More
How To A&R Your New American Idol
Some random thoughts after last night’s “American Idol” final about the chart prospects of this year’s idols.
For starters, “American Idol” as a springboard to a hit is no longer guaranteed.
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Indie Corner: South by Southwest Music and Media Conference 2010
South by Southwest has long served as a barometer for what’s simmering in the music industry, long before artists make the charts and airwaves. It’s also where some of the biggest bands around pop in to make the scene, or reenter it. Read More
What Is The "Right" Version Of A Hit Song? Readers Respond
Anybody who has ever worked with an Oldies/Greatest Hits or Classic Rock station will tell you that having the “right” versions of songs is an ongoing challenge. The version of a song on the CD reissue is sometimes neither the single nor the album version that was heard in the vinyl era. Read More
First Listen: Jhani Kaye's KTWV (The Wave) Los Angeles
We wrote last Thursday that we were looking forward to hearing what KRTH (K-Earth 101) Los Angeles programmer Jhani Kaye did with his additional responsibilities at Smooth Jazz sister and format pioneer, KTWV (the Wave). It didn’t take long. Within days, listeners on the Radio-Info.com discussion boards were chronicling the changes: the term “smoot…
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Final Listen: B94 Pittsburgh
We’ve said goodbye to legendary Top 40 B94 Pittsburgh once before. In 2004, the original WBZZ (B94) became one of the more prominent casualties of Clear Channel’s “fast on Rhythm, slow on Rock” Midwestern Top 40s, specifically WKST (Kiss FM)—ironically, a descendent of WXKX (96KX), the station that B94 ran out of the format in the early ’80s by be…
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Intriguing Radio Stations Of The ’00s Part II - Into the New
First the good news, if it’s possible to devote an entire column to library-driven radio stations that were intriguing in the ’90s, it wasn’t hard to find a like number of Intriguing Radio Stations of the ’00s based in newer or emerging music. Now the bad news, most of those gold-based stations are still among us. Read More
Intriguing Radio Stations Of The ’00s – Part I: The Celestial Jukebox
If you’re writing an article about intriguing radio stations of the ’00s, there’s no getting around it. A lot of the creativity of that decade went into finding new and better ways to program old records – whether from the ’70s or the ’90s; whether Classic Country or Old-School Hip-Hop. Read More
The Most Intriguing Radio Stations Of 2009
This should not have been an easy article to write. We began 2009 with format change activity slowed to a crawl by the economic gales of Sept. Read More
Fifteen Songs That Changed The Radio In The 2000s
If the “Songs That Made A Difference In 2009” show a softening of the pop music epicenter, looking at “Fifteen Songs That Changed The Radio In The 2000s” makes the pattern even clearer. A decade that began under the sway of Rap/Rock gently strums its way to the finish line. Read More
Songs That Made A Difference In 2009
Usually, when we take our year-end look at the songs that changed the radio in the previous year, the key songs are those that made mainstream radio edgier. Hey, look, there’s “P.I.M.P.” by 50 Cent at Mainstream Top 40 at 10 a.m. Read More
Four Christmases V: KOIT, WBEB, XmasMelody, SomaFM
After a few weeks of checking out the more eclectic offerings from the all-holiday world, I was planning for this final installment of “Four Christmases” to return to the genre’s holiday HQ and focus entirely on Mainstream ACs and their execution of the format.
Then RadioTime released their list of users' favorite holiday music stations.
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Nothing But A Heartache: Readers Respond
*For the last six months, Radio-Info’s Ross On Radio column has forthrightly faced down the challenges of our industry – seeking to engage readers in constructive dialogue. And what was it that was really on people’s minds?
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30 Under 30 … 18 Months Later, Part II
We’re following up with the thirty young broadcasters who were named Edison Research’s “30 Under 30” for 2008 to see how they’ve weathered a particularly tumultuous 18 months. The first five profiles can be found here. Read More
PUNCH WARS #2: WDOD vs. WKXJ Chattanooga, Tenn.
Chattanooga, Tenn., is one of those markets that has, over the last 20 years, managed to have two Top 40 stations or, just as often, none. Bahakel’s WDOD (96.5 The Mountain) made an unusual Triple-A to Top 40 segue when Clear Channel’s WKXJ (Kiss-FM) was out of commission. Read More
Broadcasters Urged To Clear Rights ‘Whenever, Wherever and However’ They Use Music
You may think you have the rights to use a piece of music on your station, but when it comes to certain uses you may have to think again. Attorney panelists stressed this point over and over at the provocatively titled session “The Day The Music Died? Read More
The Summer Song Of 2009: Readers Respond
On Sept. 8, Radio-Info.com’s Sean Ross chose the Black Eyed Peas’ “Boom Boom Pow” as “The Summer Song of 2009.” By the author’s own admission, it was a summer with a lot of evenly matched contenders.
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A Labor Day Trio Of Format Change First Listens
When radio revenue and the national economy both nosedived last September, the normal format change activity that precedes the fall ratings book ground to a halt. At that time, it was typical to hear from group owners and GMs that even improved ratings weren’t likely to improve their available revenue – so why go through the expense of a format … Read More
The ’90s Format Finally Finds A Foothold
The idea of a format based in the pop music of the ’90s has always had its challenges, among them a Top 40 format that went through at least five musical changes in 10 years and was often represented by low-rated stations (or no stations) in many markets. The Alternative titles of the ’90s endured – and were generally stronger than anything toda… Read More
Goom Radio: The Radio-Info Interview
After four months of heavy publicity, the U.S. version of Goom Radio arrived in late July. Read More
