Tag: Alternative Radio

“We're supposed to be an alternative to a pop station. It’s something you're not going to get elsewhere."

"The market is full of really great, long-running, full-cast morning shows. However, I’m proudly the only female-lead, music-intensive morning show. Our station thrives on having our own lane.”

“It's a great event, and for Alternative, it's the last thing of its kind."

“Kenny is an experienced air talent, program director, and operations manager and knows our market well after working at Cumulus here for many years.”

"52 Alternative radio shows appeared on ballots turned in by our voters."

Believe it or not, she started as an unpaid promotions intern with the company Rubber City Radio Group and worked her way all the way up to management.

For the most part, Alternative stations have stopped chasing after one-off TikTok artists and gone back to what the format is best at: finding and exposing talented new musicians who will (ideally) have long careers.

“KTCL is a hyper-local, music-focused tastemaker with personality,” explains Nerf. “It’s all about the music, but we find ways to deliver the music that makes us more than just a jukebox.

Northshire Communications Alternative WEQX Albany, New York will mark its 40th anniversary on Thursday (11/14).

“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,’”