Connoisseur Media has unveiled a new round of personnel moves across its Bay Area operation, shifting familiar personalities into new dayparts, expanding several employees’ responsibilities and redistributing duties across multiple…
Somewhere along the way, parts of the radio business started treating “community engagement” like a department, a strategy deck or something to squeeze between a remote and a sales meeting.…
Somebody find the transmitter keys, blow the dust off the microphones and tell Newton and Grinnell to turn those radios back on, because three months after four Central Iowa signals…
There are morning-show changes, and then there are moments when a heritage rock station has to figure out what the hell comes next. For 94.1 WHJY, that question has been…
Ben Marcotte apparently looked at the Midwest, looked at the Pacific Ocean, remembered that January exists and made a programming decision even the research department could understand. The veteran iHeartMedia…
Connoisseur Media employees were impacted by a round of staffing cuts Tuesday, Sept. 8, as the company continues reshaping the enormous radio operation created by its acquisition of Alpha Media.…
There are radio stations that conduct format changes with countdown clocks, mysterious construction noises, thousands of songs in a row and enough manufactured suspense to make listeners believe Taylor Swift…
K-LOVE spent decades building one of the most formidable distribution systems in American Christian radio, but its newest play for young believers isn’t beginning with another FM frequency, another translator…
Sometimes radio programmers spend months conducting research, building perceptual studies, analyzing music scores and sitting through meetings trying to figure out what listeners think about a station. And sometimes the…
There are format changes where somebody adjusts the music library, changes the sweepers and hopes the audience eventually notices. Then there are format changes where an established television brand essentially…