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The Secret Sauce: Skip Dillard on Programming with Purpose
"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
"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
"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
"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
"The responses ranged from impressed to underwhelmed, with most landing somewhere in between."
Radio Weighs in on What Drake’s Iceman Must Deliver
"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
"Young listeners crave community and connection. They just consume it differently right now."
Amazon Music Brings Rolling Loud 2026 to Prime Video and Twitch
"The festival features more than 75 artists, headlined by Playboi Carti, YoungBoy Never Broke Again, and Don Toliver."
Run-D.M.C.’s Darryl McDaniels on How Merging Rock and Roll With Hip Hop Made Music History
"When we started doing hip hop, we utilized the records we were hearing on Soul Train, American Bandstand, and 77 WABC. Our inspiration wasn’t about color. It was about vibration and sound."
Peter Rosenberg, Ebro Detail Emotions Of Exit From HOT 97
"The only thing that bugged me is the way it went down was just so classic radio"