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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
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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Handicapping The Summer Song Of 2010
In recent years, the summer songs derby has become a big part of labels’ marketing plans. Since March, there’s been a new candidate popping up in my inbox every few days—often tagged in the e-mail as “the summer song of 2010.” That parade of major artist releases continues—a new T.I.
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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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Rep-Rep-Repetition In Pop And R&B: Readers Respond
Throughout the history of pop music, internal repetition—the repetition of a word or phrase in the middle of a sentence—has been virtually a guarantee that I will like a song, from “pretty, pretty, pretty, pretty Peggy Sue” to the Supremes’ “baby, baby/baby don’t leave me”to “I can’t get no/I can’t get no/no satisfaction/no satisfaction” to “Little… 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
"K2" gets more to do at Clear Channel Chicago
Clear Channel’s WGCI Chicago MD Kenard “K2” Karter adds the same duties for co-owned top 40 “Kiss FM” WKSC (103.5). He’ll hold down both jobs simultaneously. 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
Coast To Coast With Canadian Top 40 – Part II: Toronto to Winnipeg
Read Part I: St. John’s, Newfoundland to Ottawa If you just go by the chart reporting panel, Toronto has four Top 40 stations: CIDC (Z103.5), CKFM (9-9-9 Virgin Radio), the new CKIS (Kiss 92.5), and CFXJ (the Flow). Read More
Coast to Coast With Canadian Top 40 – Part I: St. John's to Ottawa
Canada’s Top 40 format has had an interesting journey in recent years. Stations like CKMM (Hot 103) Winnipeg, CHUM-FM Toronto (an Adult Top 40 reporter, but effectively Top 40 these days), CIBK (the Vibe) Calgary, Alberta, and CFBT (the Beat) Vancouver, B.C., managed to put together boxcar 12-plus numbers even before the format pendulum had complet… Read More
