How much Christmas is too much Christmas? I’m one of the original play Christmas early guys; always loved programming the season, particularly since I moved over to work in the…
Year: <span>2017</span>
“Radio has to innovate to remain relevant as a source of music discovery.” That’s a line from a well done research report that came across my desk this summer titled…
> For a country station, how many currents would you rotate? 30 to 35, depending on the flow of product. (i hate calling records ‘product’) > For a country station,…
A station owner recently asked for and received my Country library playlists; Recurrent, Gold, Classics and Legends. He’d had some uneasiness about many of the songs he was hearing on…
One of the many mistakes corporate radio has made is the elimination of the live, human element from much of their broadcast day. And no, happy-talk voice-tracking is not a…
Here’s a Nielsen graph tracking Country listening trends. Looks like BroCountry peaked in 2014. But, it didn’t do much for the Country’s historical prime demo, 25-54. This suggests to me…
In the early years of Top 40 Radio, song rotations and music formatting were way different than what we know today. It was common for a station to play the…
Following my post about playing Goldfinger a few minutes after the Bond movie let out so’s some folks would hear it on the way home and, we hoped, be getting…
Before I started my 7 to 10:30 pm airshift one Saturday night in early ’65, my program director, the guy who’d hired me told me to play “Goldfinger” by Shirley…
My hand-tooled Country music formatting and scheduling service is now available for broadcast stations in the U. S. Working with The Talent Farm syndication service, I provide my personally curated…