Music

“When I came here in 1995, I wrote my five-year plan in a notebook, and Step One was ‘Spend no more than 12 months in the Quad Cities,’”

He appreciates the role he plays in people’s daily lives and says his connection to the audience is incredibly rare.

Over the past few years, automakers like Ford and Tesla have announced plans to drop AM radios in their electric vehicles, saying their EV motors interfere with AM reception and audio quality.

Jay Towers hosts a top-rated weekday morning radio show in Detroit on 100.3 WNIC “Detroit’s Variety 80s 90s and today.” Impressive enough. But the tireless multi-tasker hosts the top-rated Fox 2 TV morning news show at the same time.

Here are a few easy, relatively cheap options you might borrow to help market your station amidst the infinite dial of content sources.

The “Those 2 Girls in the Morning” show on WLYF in Miami sounds like a conversation between friends because it is.

I’ve said this before and I’ll say it again: Time for radio to stop resting on its laurels and touting its reign as a reason to listen.

Relationships, says Danny, are the key to radio success, and his previous work relationship with Loftus was “100 percent responsible” for getting a shot with 7 Mountains Media, where he’s been for almost a year.

“People were listening then because they wanted to be there – they weren’t just saying, ‘Oh, I don’t have Spotify in my car, so I’ll listen to this by default."

Who are the new core artists in Alternative? We keep reaching back to the ‘90s and including these artists not just as power gold, but also now as currents.