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First Listen: WQBW (97.3 Radio Now) Milwaukee
I’ve always been a big fan of Entercom’s WXSS (Kiss 103.7) Milwaukee. PD Brian Kelly isn’t afraid to find his own records; (Kiss broke 3Oh!3’S “Don’t Touch Me” as a Top 40 single and is actually playing their “Alice In Wonderland” single, “Follow Me Down.”) He’s had a similar template as Clear Channel’s large-market fast-on-rhythm/slow-on-rock…
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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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First Listen: Livio Car Internet Radio
For the last five months, my most used iPhone app has easily been stream aggregator WunderRadio, which has emerged as the preferred way to stream a lot of different radio stations on-the-go. I’ve downloaded the various free apps offered by the broadcast groups, but I usually gravitate to WunderRadio for its one-stop shopping.
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Radio's Best & Worst, May 13
Highlights from the author’s week of (always decidedly random) listening and the week’s radio headlines, ending May 13, 2010. Stations I’ve worked with recently in my Edison Research capacity (or another) are asterisked. Read More
Radio's Best & Worst, May 6, 2010
Highlights from the author’s week of (always decidedly random) listening and the week’s radio headlines, ending May 6, 2010. Stations I’ve worked with recently in my Edison Research capacity are asterisked. Read More
Radio's Best & Worst: April 29, 2010
Highlights from the author’s week of (always decidedly random) listening and the week’s radio headlines, ending April 29, 2010. Stations I’ve worked with recently in my Edison Research capacity are asterisked.
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Fresh Listen: 95.8 Capital FM London
In the late ’90s, London’s Capital FM was an international CHR powerhouse. Like most of its U.S.
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Radio's Best & Worst, April 22, 2010
Highlights from the author’s week of (always decidedly random) listening and the week’s radio headlines, ending April 22, 2010. Stations I’ve worked with recently in my Edison Research capacity are asterisked. Read More
First Listen: WMXB (The River) Richmond, Va.
Other trades have called it “Adult Alternative.” The station’s own slogan is “Richmond’s Best Alternative.” But “The River,” Cox’s new format for the former Hot AC “Mix 103.7” WMXB, is more interesting and complicated. It’s Cox’s second unusual hybrid in a few weeks' time after San Antonio’s X106.7.
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Radio's Best & Worst, April 15, 2010
Highlights from the author’s week of (always decidedly random) listening and the week’s radio headlines, ending April 15, 2010. Stations I’ve worked with recently in my Edison Research capacity are asterisked. Read More
First Listen: Glee FM
There have been online-only radio stations devoted to TV shows before; (“Life On Mars” offered its version of “1973 Radio” last year). But on Monday, Canada’s Global TV took over a terrestrial station, CIRR (103.9 Proud FM), Toronto’s gay-themed pop/dance outlet, rebranding it “Glee FM” to tie in with the show’s second suite of new episod…
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Radio's Best & Worst: April 8, 2010
Highlights from the author’s week of (always decidedly random) listening and the week’s radio headlines, ending April 8, 2010. Stations I’ve worked with recently in my Edison Research capacity are asterisked. Read More
Coast To Coast With Canadian Top 40 Part IV: Edmonton to Vancouver
Read Part I: St. John’s to Ottawa and Part II: Toronto to Winnipeg and Part III: Saskatoon to Calgary Okay, so we were supposed to finish up our virtual Canadian CHR roadtrip three weeks ago in time for Canadian Music Week. Read More
Seattle's Kiss 106.1 Is Feeling A Little Punk These Days
So here’s a story you rarely get to tell about a major-market Top 40 station these days.
The sixth most played record at Clear Channel’s KBKS (106.1 Kiss FM) Seattle, according to BDSRadio, is This Providence’s “Letdown,” a nine-month-old song by a local band that is not on any other CHR stations.
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Punch Wars #4: Augusta Ga.'s WHHD (HD98.3) vs. WIBL (Y102.3)
It’s a big week in Augusta, Ga. And not only because there’s suddenly yet another CHR battle in a market where nobody wanted to do CHR for a while, but also because there’s apparently a golf tournament in town and some guy named Tiger Woods, who’s been getting a lot of press lately. Read More
First Listen: KOCD (CD103.7) Chills Out
A few weeks ago, Broadcast Architecture’s Allen Kepler announced the March 29 launch of the Chill Out Radio Network which, we observed from a sample hour, sounded a lot like where people expected the Smooth Jazz format to land – a mix of quality vocals with maybe a few megahit instrumentals – but without the encumbrance of the Smooth Jazz name or…
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Hell Is In The Details: Does The Manual Still Matter? Readers Respond
When I was in college radio, one of the programmers who I used to talk to passed along a booklet called “The Secrets of Programming Power” by Pat “Martin” Lopeman, now the owner of WMOM Ludington, Mich. That booklet was the first time I’d seen so much radio programming theory in one place—I’d been piecing it together from trade publication articles… Read More
Coast To Coast With Canadian Top 40 – Part III: Saskatoon & Calgary
Read Part I: St. John’s to Ottawa and Part II: Toronto to Winnipeg We started working our way across Canada’s large-market Top 40s more than a week ago in honor of Canadian Music Week. Read More
Punk Rock Radio: Then And Now
A few weeks ago, Clear Channel launched CBGB Radio—an Internet-only channel mixing ‘70s and '80s punk and new wave with today’s indie rock. Even the press release quote from Seymour Stein couldn’t help comment on the irony of a commercial entity devoted to what radio viewed as the least mainstream music of its time.
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PUNCH WARS #3: KUDD (Mix 107.9) vs. KZHT Salt Lake City
KZHT Salt Lake City was always something of a pop-leaning outlier among Clear Channel. It was the station that generally started not Hip-Hop crossovers but straight-ahead pop records. Read More
