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Katie Zacharia, Aubrey Huff and the Art of Failing Fast

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"A bad decision isn’t the end of the line if you make more good decisions than bad."

College Football Playoff Expansion Leaves Broadcast Opportunities on the Sidelines

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"Expanding the College Football Playoff to 24 teams will give more programs a chance to compete for a national championship. But the sport is missing a golden opportunity to expand something else just as important: the voices bringing those games to life."

Chuck Damico: Country Radio Has an Energy That Rock Lost

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"A lot of other businesses ... could probably learn a lot from how the country radio and country music community operates and supports each other."

Could Canada’s Radio Diary Replacement Be the Future of US Radio Ratings?

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PPM didn’t make sense financially in smaller Canadian markets, which remained reliant on a diary-based system. Numeris and its stakeholders recognized that the industry required a system that more accurately reflects how Canadians engage with radio today, while reducing volatility and improving consistency across markets.

Inside “Straight Outta Hip Hop”: Five Takeaways From a Candid Summit Panel

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"Radio's gonna come back, and it's gonna slap back."

From HOT 97 to the Operating Room: Megan Ryte’s Next Chapter

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"You made one dream come true, who says you can't make another?"

The Secret Sauce: Skip Dillard on Programming with Purpose

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"These young people, if you really listen to them, they can give us hope, they can give us strength, because they're moving beyond the divisions, they're moving beyond race."

DJ Pup Dawg Is Doing It All — and He Wouldn’t Have It Any Other Way

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"If you want to understand Pup Dawg's philosophy on programming in one line, here it is: 65% gut, 35% data."

Six Radio Programmers. Six Takes on the Song of the Summer

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"I can't see how it's not Song of the Year at the Grammy's next year."

Peter Rosenberg: Hip Hop Radio Is Chasing Eyeballs, Not Culture

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"We have great conversations every day about culture, politics, music," he says, "and having one hot take about Michael Jackson is the thing that gets everybody talking."

Music Radio Reacts: First Listen Impressions on Drake’s Triple Album Drop

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"The responses ranged from impressed to underwhelmed, with most landing somewhere in between."

Radio Weighs in on What Drake’s Iceman Must Deliver

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"Drake needs to take back the crown. Hip Hop's been a little slow on the massive hits so far this year."

Why the Gen Z Audience Needs Personality-Driven Urban Radio

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"Young listeners crave community and connection. They just consume it differently right now."

Amazon Music Brings Rolling Loud 2026 to Prime Video and Twitch

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"The festival features more than 75 artists, headlined by Playboi Carti, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, and Don Toliver."
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College Football Playoff Expansion Leaves Broadcast Opportunities on the Sidelines

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"Expanding the College Football Playoff to 24 teams will give more programs a chance to compete for a national championship. But the sport is missing a golden opportunity to expand something else just as important: the voices bringing those games to life."

Chuck Damico: Country Radio Has an Energy That Rock Lost

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"A lot of other businesses ... could probably learn a lot from how the country radio and country music community operates and supports each other."

Could Canada’s Radio Diary Replacement Be the Future of US Radio Ratings?

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PPM didn’t make sense financially in smaller Canadian markets, which remained reliant on a diary-based system. Numeris and its stakeholders recognized that the industry required a system that more accurately reflects how Canadians engage with radio today, while reducing volatility and improving consistency across markets.

Inventory Isn’t Innovation: Radio’s Revenue Problem

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"Digital doesn’t simply mean stopsets, logos on graphics or disjointed naming rights on anything reaching a stream or screen."