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…
Category: <span>Music Radio</span>
Advertising copywriters, Please. The ten syllables in your ad copy are no longer relevant. “da bul you, da bul you, da bul you dot” …is pointless now. we don’t have…
Found in my archives, a short memo I posted in the control room in the summer of ’80.: Folks, A recent RadioIndex survey7 show the DJ is ver important to…
At any time, each listener has seven favorite new songs. Everything else in the library is just part of the landscape. Seven that s/he can name if asked the question:…
Going through my archives, I found this clipped from Rolling Stone in January of ’72. Written by the excellent reporter Timothy Crouse, this article was one of the seminal influences…
Four in a single cluster is one too many. Now this is ancient research data on the subject, talking 1980’s, but I see no reason to believe the findings would…
Programming a music radio station is like farming. You have to plant new seeds, nurture and grow them. For us, those seeds are the new records and promotions we play.…
Here’s an interesting article from the local paper in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Arbitron was out of the market for about a dozen years, no subscribers there. Now ARB has…
I got a question from the other side of the world; a club DJ who is now charged with being the program director of a music station in a developing…
What’s Wrong With Music Scheduling Software? Consider this: At the end of the 70’s, radio’s top program directors had developed rotation systems that ensured songs in each category got equal…