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There are enough sexy songs getting played on country radio right now to warrant a “booty call song” category in stations’ music scheduling software.
That’s because the latest burgeoning trend in country music seems to be songs with overtly sexual themes. And while country radio stations are known to quickly edit songs with potentially offensive language, such as the “ass” reference in the chorus of the Zac Brown Band’s “Toes,” the most interesting thing about this new crop of sexually-themed songs is that so many of them are becoming consensus hits, completely unencumbered by radio edits.
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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. The Mountain became a surprise 7-8 share player. And now WKXJ is back as 103.7 Kiss FM.
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Radio-Info.com has launched new format sections - CHR, Country, and Urban - highlighting news about radio, the music industry and artists, as well as format specific articles and content. Take a look at one of the latest columns from Sean Ross in our new CHR section:
It was the ultimate programmers’ exercise – flipping back and forth between two stations to see which one had the best song at any given time. The “Punch War” was part of the excitement when a CHR battle came to town, but it languished in the early ‘00s because there were fewer CHR battles, and because of a flagging interest in the musical particulars. We all knew that programmers were supposed to stop obsessing over music when there was another sales call to ride along on.
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The Sept. 29 Ross On Radio issued two not-at-all-contradictory calls prompted by the Radio’s Stimulus Package session at the National Assn. of Broadcasters Radio Show.
We called on broadcasters to not only recruit younger broadcasters but to allow them to engage their peers on the radio, given radio’s increasing default to Top 40 as the one-size-fits-all format for anybody under 25.
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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. “Boom Boom Pow” got the nod for dominating the charts for the first half of the summer, and as a sonic breakthrough – a different-sounding record even in a Top 40 format already dominated by jittery synth-jams.
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Sherman Kizart, President of Kizart Media Partners and founder of the annual “Power of Urban Radio” summit, talks with Radio-Info.com’s Dana Hall about the upcoming event scheduled during the National Association of Black Owned Broadcasters (NABOB) convention (Sept. 24 & 25) in Washington D.C. The conversation also touches on an “old” issue that had left the press headlines in recent years, but which still continues to be a burden on ethnic broadcasters: Non-Urban and Non-Hispanic Dictates within the advertising community. That issue recently reared its ugly head again, thrusting the topic back into the spotlight and informing the industry that it in fact, had not been eradicated.
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After four months of heavy publicity, the U.S. version of Goom Radio arrived in late July. Launched last year in France by Emmanuel Jayr and Roberto Ciurleo, former executives at Top 40 network NRJ, Goom followed a similar path here, tapping CEO Rob Williams, previously market manager of Clear Channel/New York (after more than a decade with Clear Channel and its predecessors) and head of programming Tim “Romeo” Herbster from the MD job at CC’s WHTZ (Z100) New York.
At this writing, Goom has debuted nine channels, most recently Urban Jams and “teen hits” format Sweeet Radio, that, like their French counterpart, have the hosted, produced feel of mainstream radio, but with more of a new music emphasis. Additional channels as well as the ability to create user-generated stations (a promo says “you can even sing your own jingle”) are on the way. Radio-Info talked to Williams and Herbster about the new site and their journeys from terrestrial radio to new platforms.
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