In a music radio advertising break, how many spots is too many? Four. I’ve seen the research. It’s old, yes; from the 90s came the data. That was a time…
Category: <span>Programming</span>
A podcast group has partnered with UMG for music-in-podcasts. This should open the door for podcasting music shows for the first time. “Like, why can’t i download American Top 40…
The greatest Top 40 radio station of all time, the one that everybody copied played one song, one spot, one song, one spot, one song. The greatest radio station I…
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…
> 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…
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…