Tag: Top 40 Radio

One morning show told me they didn’t make the hockey win a focus because women don’t care about sports. That, to me, was like saying male-targeted news radio shouldn’t have mentioned the Nancy Guthrie story because men don’t care about kidnappings.

Star 92.9 in Burlington, Vermont, has announced it has named Adri Stuhr as its new afternoon drive host. Stuhr joins the station after previously working...

Randy Michaels compared radio to railroads. Trains are still running, and radio stations are still playing the hits of yesterday and today. But there’s a lot less of both.

Phil’s Future Five is me doing the work for you and finding records currently outside the Top 30 in their respective formats that are positioned to break.

If you’re on the air and have built a relationship with your audience, are you telling your story? The more listeners know about you and the cast of your show, the more points of relatability they will have with you.

"So you’re telling me we’re now going to be playing throwbacks from the 2000s during the week too? That’s so fetch.”

"I don’t believe programmers are ignorant. I don’t believe they’re arrogant. But I do think some are trapped inside systems built for a different era."

U-93 in South Bend has named Tommy Bickham its new morning drive host for the Sound Management CHR station. Bickham joins the station after previously...

Visionaries took chances on Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh, WFAN, and Charlamagne tha God. If those leaders had played it safe, radio’s AQH would be significantly lower today.

"There’s something to be said for the idea that two politically active global artists performed on the biggest stage in American sports. Moreover the decision to let the music speak for itself."