Category: <span>Music Radio</span>

Alright folks, after some few requests and years of hold-out, I’m posting a couple of my old airchecks; me-on-the-air for your listening amusement. I really date myself here, kids. Starting as weekend DJ at 16, I was hired as the full-time night jock six months later and became program director at age 18.

Don’t Play The Flip Sides Of Hit Records. The Saturday night that I sat in a radio station control room for my very first disc jockey shift the number one…

Two quick thoughts about this. First, Oldies always does better as a format in times of economic downturn. Second, who’d want to ever listen to an iHeart station at home?

Here is the obvious, one more time. I’ve seen other data indicating much the same thing this does. A couple years back, I read an account of an experiment Spotify…

History lesson about music research. First, what’s the point? Answer: To learn more about potential listeners like, then give it to them. The first research was jukebox spins. We already…

Here are three interesting reports about how Spotify’s charts can be used as a replacement for the way we used to have to get music consumption data; which was: Call…

Here’s an article from Rolling Stone 3/25/19 about an audience research report presented at last month’s Country Radio Seminar in Nashville. Here’s one question: “Do you agree with this statement:…

The story came in early March ’19. So many people have been asking Alexa what song they just heard and who sang it that Amazon has added a new feature,…

In 2013, the average song on the Billboard Hot 100 was 3:50. IN 2018, the average 3:30. And six percent of those were 2:30 or less. When I began playing…