Hitting the post. That’s what it was called. Maybe still is. Been a long time now since I was writing programming critiques for station managers for a living. It means…
Category: <span>Music Radio</span>
We’re about to go into 2023 as I write this. A couple of weeks ago, I came across an article about record company efforts to manipulate the streaming charts. This…
I’ve just seen this in my morning in-box (12.2.2022). Earlier this year, I began noticing some of the News and History YouTubes that I graze were being narrated by non-humans.…
I like the title of the report: Understanding Your Brain on Sound. If you are deep into radio production, this article from Spotify will be of interest. In the hands…
Youngsters probably won’t know the name. One of the original Rock ‘n Rollers, Anka recorded his first hit record in 1956. “Diana” went to #1 on the Billboard chart almost…
Music radio as we have now sprouted in America which alone among nations in the 1920s and 30s allowed independently owned, commercialized radio licenses. Before television, all radio station programming…
I first wrote about my scorn for call-out research in a 1979 article for Radio & Records, then the industry’s primary weekly trade sheet. Even as it went to print,…
Back in the last century for most of the top PD’s in the biz it was a given that Consistency was one of the most important factors in ratings success.…
It’s all over the radio trades in the USA this month. AdsWizz has released a research study that tries to measure what they call Cost Per Action, or CPA. That…
Variety is not what you think it is. In almost every competitive music radio ratings battle, the station playing the fewest songs has been the one that came out on…