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Emergency Coverage: We Can’t Afford It?
Back in late October, I wasn’t one in a million. I was one in about THREE MILLION… three million Northeasterners plunged into darkness in the wake of our Snowtober storm that dumped in excess of a foot of snow in some places, and went through trees and power lines in nearly all places with the ferocity of a buzzsaw.A perfect opportunity for radio t…
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November 2011 PPM: The News/Talk National Recaps
WTMJ may have been knocked out of the top of the all-format top ten, but it holds on to the format’s top spot in its format for the sixth consecutive month. Right behind it are a trio of legendary Ohio call letters, representing all three of the state’s PPM markets.NOVEMBER’S TOP 10 PPM SHARES – News/Talk
Radio’s Best & Worst: November 3, 2011
Highlights from the author’s week of (always decidedly random) listening and the week’s radio headlines, ending November 03, 2011. Stations I’ve worked with recently in my Edison Research capacity are asterisked.Ratings Stories
The FM Spoken Word Land Rush continues to pay dividends in the just-released October PPMs.
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Don't Get Boxed In
There is a saying in NASCAR: “rubbing is racing.” Stock car racing is a rough and tumble business where bumping and grinding with your competitors is part of the path to victory lane. It's the same in the talk radio business – “if you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the, uhm, studio.” Yet one of the best ways to turn up the heat for your show is …
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September 2011 PPM: News/Talk National Recaps
WTMJ Milwaukee continues to rule this category, but huge months for both WTOP and KYW move them into the top five.SEPTEMBER’S TOP 10 PPM SHARES – News/Talk
Talk Radio: The Ultimate “Green” Medium
When it comes to “recycling”—both audience and ideas—nothing beats American talk radio. In the daily quest for ratings and revenue, NewsTalk programmers are always scouring every available source and tapping the creativity of their hosts and producers to create the “next big thing.” But in the process, they often miss the opportunity to craft compe…
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Playing Too Easy in the Big Easy?
“Holy Sh*t! WOW!”That response, from a major market PD, was typical of the reaction to reports that WWL/New Orleans talker Garland Robinette accepted a $250,000 loan from a controversial local newsmaker.According to The Times-Picayune, Robinette received the loan in 2007 from landfill owner Fred Heebe after Robinette had “repeatedly” used his…
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Is "Female News" Threatening AC's Franchise?
In a listener poll that ran on the station Website in its earliest days, Merlin Media’s WEMP (101.9 FM News) New York offered respondents a choice of stations that they currently listen to that included not just All-News AM WINS, the perceived target of the new station, but also AC WLTW (Lite FM) and Top 40s WKTU and WHTZ (Z100). That list of sta…
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Wrong-Headed Talk About Rock
It’s ironic that the “new” WHFS (WWMX-HD-2) Baltimore appeared this year just in time for the latest slew of “rock radio is dead” headlines. WHFS’ switch from Alternative to a Latin Tropical format in 2005 set off its own spate of press stories, many of them wrongheaded.
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First Listen: WEMP (101.9 News) New York
When WEMP (101.9 FM News) New York was in its Thursday afternoon ramp-up to its new format (a five hour news block, before going back to music until the following morning), its overall tenor was far more female/lifestyle-driven than what we’d described a few days earlier on already-launched WWWN Chicago. That feel continued when we heard the stat…
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Making Moves: Monday, August 1, 2011
Political pollster Scott Rasmussen is now a talk show host, airing shows on Washington's WMAL (630) and Chicago's WLS-AM (890) ... Another day - another hire by Merlin Media, this time Orlando, Florida's news/talk WFLF (540 / 94.5) journalist Michelle Murillo.
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June 2011 PPM: The News/Talk Formats
WTMJ’s 11.2 is the highest share in the country, all formats, for the month of June, so of course it tops its format ranker. WLW’s slide in June drops it to third below WTAM.JUNE’S TOP 10 PPM SHARES – News/Talk
A How-To Manual for Great Radio
Valerie Geller has just saved me hours of time, maybe even days.People who are interested in launching a career in talk radio frequently approach me for advice and insight. This is flattering and I’m always honored and happy to help.
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As FM Talk Gains Stations, What Formats Are Losing?
With News, Talk, and Sports on FM growing rapidly, is any one format losing more outlets than others? And are the format’s gains chasing away a larger number of displaced users of other music formats?That question was prompted by Ross On Radio reader Greg Guise who, reacting to the rumors that Randy Michaels’ new Merlin Media would install FM News …
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High Tech/No Tech Tips for Using Hot Zips
Here are two great ways to get more from your Arbitron Hot Zips data, courtesy of the folks at Bonneville’s KIRO Seattle. One trick employs the latest computer technology; the other depends on gas, tires and oil.The station recently mapped its Hot Zips using the free tools at batchgeo.com.
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NJ's new Longport Media hires casino exec Dave Coskey as President
Longport Media, which recently won the auction for the former Atlantic City area Atlantic Broadcasting stations, has hired Borgata Hotel and Casino executive Dave Coskey to oversee their radio operation. Coskey has been VP/Marketing for Borgata since 2007, and joins the five-station group which was bought one week ago for $4.2 million following act…
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Emmis and Mancow settle the suit over his exit from Q101, Chicago
Emmis Communications didn't renew the contract of Erich "Mancow" Muller at modern rock WKQX (101.1) in July 2006, and the following year he filed suit for $6 million. As Robert Feder reports in Time Out Chicago, Mancow alleged that the company's executives had made "false and disparaging statements" about him and impaired his ability to find other …
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The Lost Art of Failure
"Maybe America's Great Stagnation isn't happening because we're failing—maybe it's happening because we're not.” That’s a theory put forth by business futurist Umair Haque.Substitute “talk radio” for “America” and give that a listen. Thought provoking, isn’t it?
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Copper thieves, in for a surprise, strike Salt Lake City's KSL-AM
Thieves broke into the transmission area where the KSL-AM (1160) broadcast tower has stood since the 1930's, hauling off copper and other station property valued at $30,000. It appears that two people sliced off yards of copper wiring from a large spool at the site, and also made off with welding equipment and other property of the radio station.
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The mother of an alleged victim of Reese Hopkins calls him an "animal"
Former Boston news/talk WRKO-AM (680) midday talk host Reese Hopkins is still awaiting his fate, this time from a judge who is expected to announce bail as he schedules another trial - following a mistrial in New York City. However, the mother of the then-11 year old girl Hopkins was accused of raping is enraged at Hopkins and the courts.
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