There are Top 40 formats built by committee, Top 40 formats assembled from research spreadsheets and Top 40 formats that sound like somebody simply dumped the streaming charts into a…
– Why Would You Kill a Format That Was Still Competing – There are format changes you can understand even when you don’t particularly like them, and then there are…
There are quick chapters in broadcasting, and then there are chapters that seem to end almost before the industry has finished announcing they began. Lee Harris is leaving 77 WABC…
Baltimore barely had time to mourn 100.7 The Bay before somebody reached over, turned another amplifier on and essentially said not so fast. As Shamrock Communications’ longtime Classic Rock outlet…
Some radio stations simply change formats, but others leave behind a hole in the dial that listeners can almost feel. 100.7 The Bay WZBA belongs firmly in the second category.…
While much of radio seems consumed with conversations about consolidation, cost cutting and how many jobs can be handled from somewhere three states away, Fred Manning is making a very…
There is buying a translator to fill a coverage gap, and then there is what Red Apple Media appears to be doing with 77 WABC across Long Island. The company…
If 107.3 KMJK could talk, it might politely ask Kansas City radio management to stop moving its furniture long enough for it to figure out where the couch belongs. This…
When one programming decision simultaneously changes mornings in Cincinnati, Denver and New Jersey, it isn’t merely an airshift adjustment. Pillar Media is making a substantial reset across its Star Christian…
Yesterday, On The Dial asked one very simple question: Why? Why would Cumulus Media clear the programming and personality ranks at Power 105.1 KCJK, including experienced Kansas City broadcasters like…