Tag Archives: Radio

Does the Best Music Always Rise to the Top?

Every time I hear a debate about music and the charts, without exception one person will chime in and say ”the cream always rises to the top”.  Meaning that the best songs will always prevail.  REALLY?  Honestly, do they?  Come on now.  … Continue reading

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Excellent Music Wins

I consistently listen to most of the singles going for airplay at radio to keep up with what music and artists are out there in the trenches.  Each time I do I shake my head in disbelief.  There are typically … Continue reading

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Are We Musically Dumbed Down?

I was having a conversation with a music industry friend the other day about how it can be argued that people have been dumbed down musically.  It’s not the fault of the music fan and we may not even be … Continue reading

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The Fans Rule

It’s been years since I’ve fully dived into Fan Fair, modernly known as CMA Music Festival.  Even when I’ve attended in the past I would usually just go to the stages to watch and support whatever artists I was representing … Continue reading

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Revealing Speak at Billboard Country Music Summit

The Billboard Country Music Summit was held in downtown Nashville on June 7th and 8th.  It was a gathering of all segments of the music industry to discuss, debate and pontificate about current issues within the music business and ideas … Continue reading

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Country Radio and Social Media

Here is an interesting article from SOCIAL RADIO PROS on Country radio and social media: There has been a huge focus on moving radio brands to the internet.  Internet ad revenue has grown exponentially while the spot business has declined.  … Continue reading

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Top 10 Radio Trends for 2010

Top 10 Trends for 2010 By: Daniel Anstandig Social Media means Qualified Prospects. There are over five billion tweets sent per day, and the people who tweet have been shown in a number of studies to spend more money on … Continue reading

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The Fan I Was Before, Again.

I got into the music business because I was passionate about artists and music.  I had a heart for it and wanted it to be all around me.  That dream came true and has moved me into places I could … Continue reading

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A Message from Keynote Speaker for CRS 41

Dave Ramsey is an incredibly successful broadcast personality and is on over 400 radio stations.  In addition, Dave is a prominent author, speaker, businessman, and culture shaper.  He’s also a heck of a nice guy.  I should know since my … Continue reading

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Throwback Thursday: Garth Brooks

In honor of his coming out of retirement to play shows in Las Vegas (did you happen to hear about that?) here is Garth’s very first single from 1989, “Much Too Young To Feel This Damn Old”, captured with some … Continue reading

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The Guatemala Crew

Artists Lend A Hand To Good Causes Carter’s Chord joined fellow artists Megan Mullins and Rob Blackledge, and media professionals on a September trip to Guatemala on behalf of Compassion International, a child development ministry working to release the world’s … Continue reading

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The Music City Cycle

I was at the gym this morning getting a workout on the bicycle.  I plugged in my headphones to listen to one of the five television channels available to those in the facility.  My choices were a Wall Street news … Continue reading

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CMA Award Nominees Announced Today

The 43rd annual CMA Awards nominees were announced this morning.  The live broadcast will be on Wednesday, November 11th at 8p EST from Nashville on ABC. Entertainer Of The Year KENNY CHESNEY BRAD PAISLEY TAYLOR SWIFT GEORGE STRAIT KEITH URBAN … Continue reading

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And We’re Off

I’m quite excited about the trip we are departing on today.  A mission and advocasy trip to Guatemala to visit child development programs and see first hand how children and families are being rescued from their dire circumstances.  I already … Continue reading

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Endangered Localism

My friend and writer extraordinaire Ken Tucker has a blog.  It’s one of my favorites, so you should check it out. About a month ago he posted this piece on the deconstruction of local radio and the move toward a … Continue reading

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Sound Off

The 9513 has a feature entitled “Your Take” which asks their readers particular questions regarding the country format.  Following is a sampling of the latest queries.  There are some interesting answers. What is country music?  What does your musical taste say about … Continue reading

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Jotting Down CRS Mental Notes

 A few noteworthy items from Country Radio Seminar: Only one artist made me say “WHERE?!” when a friend saw him – Michael Martin Murphy.  A legendary and authentic artist.  How cool to see him there and shake his hand later … Continue reading

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Post CRS Thoughts

The 40th Country Radio Seminar started off in encouraging style with Seth Godin giving an intelligent and rousing keynote.  He knows his stuff when it comes to the music and radio industries and he certainly knows how to engage in discussion … Continue reading

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CRS Forecast

Country Radio Seminar is upon us again and I always look forward to a week of seeing old friends, making new ones, and coming together as an industry. We are in times of unprecedented challenges and opportunities. Will we face them … Continue reading

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ACM Radio Winners

Here are the Academy of Country Music Radio Winners that were announced today: National On-Air Personality:Lon Helton, CMT Country Countdown USA Major Market Personality: Dorsey Gang, KSCS/Dallas Large Market Personality: JD Cannon, WFMS/Indianapolis Medium Market Personality: Andy Ritchie, Alison West … Continue reading

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Termination Day

The worst kept secret in the radio and record industry came to pass as Clear Channel let go of 1850 employees.  I actually thought there might be a slight chance the CC brass wouldn’t do it on the same day … Continue reading

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The Insanity of the Typical

It is said, “Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different results.” Is the music and radio industry insane? How long will we keep trying to do the same thing and expect a miracle? As … Continue reading

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Take a Breath and Reinvent

The music industry goes quiet for a couple of weeks.  Other than Christmas tours, there isn’t much happening on the road.  Radio is in Christmas music gear and as a result label radio promotion and marketing slows.  Record companies are obviously hoping … Continue reading

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CRS 2009 Already Off to a Good Start

CRB recently announced that Seth Godin will keynote Country Radio Seminar 2009.  In my opinion they could not have booked a better individual to kick off the seminar.  Seth is not only a marketing and idea guru, he also is … Continue reading

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Radio and Records Rescue Plan

The always interesting and instructive Jerry Del Colliano at Inside Music Media has a few ideas for a radio and records industry bail out package: MUSIC INDUSTRY 1. Charge five cents (ten at the most) for all music downloads. That price … Continue reading

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Where are the Women?

Last week Lon Helton in Country Aircheck posed the question, “Where are the women?”, in referring to the lack of female Country music artists that are finding chart success.  Besides Taylor Swift and Carrie Underwood, the ladies of the Country … Continue reading

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Things I noticed on the road last week…..

I’m on the road in Louisiana right now.  I’m enjoying visiting with new and old friends.  Here’s a few observations from my trip last week: I always love the sunsets in Kansas and Oklahoma.  They are really hard to top. … Continue reading

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Like A Woman

AWARD-WINNING POWERHOUSE VOCALIST JAMIE O’NEAL   RELEASES NEW SINGLE  “Like A Woman” Hits Radio Monday, October 13 With Album to Follow Early Next Year from 1720 Entertainment    ACM Award-winner and multi-Grammy nominee, Jamie O’Neal returns to country radio Monday, October 13 with … Continue reading

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Sailing Away from the Safe Harbor

 Radio’s Digital Blue Ocean Why radio needs to move away from the red ocean and into the deep blue seas… by Daniel Anstandig Future success can be accomplished with a new way of thinking and an adjustment to radio’s business … Continue reading

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Guest Blogger: Joel Burke

WHAT ARE YOU FAMOUS FOR?   by Joel Burke I was digging threw some boxes and came across a couple of school yearbooks. It was an unexpected trip down memory lane. It was a one-way trip back in time to experiences … Continue reading

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What Kitty Wells and Kid Rock Can Teach Us

Authenticity is so crucial for the success of our format.  Nothing is worse than Nashville putting out artists and songs that are contrived and tedious.  Oh wait, yes there is – radio playing them.  I’ve often thought that this is … Continue reading

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HD Radio Making Last Stand?

Inside Music Media thinks HD is making its last stand on the radio frontier.  Here are the reasons: 1. New People Meter numbers for the first few PPM markets (or soon to be markets) show that HD listening did not … Continue reading

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The Marketing of De-personalizing

Seth Godin gives some interesting and relevant insights and makes a good case for getting back to personalized authenticity……. Organizations will work tirelessly to de-personalize every communication medium they encounter. Radio ads used to be live, personal and spoken by an … Continue reading

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Industry Pro: Frank Edwards

FRANK EDWARDS PD Clear Channel KRYS/Corpus Christi Previous Stations & Positions: KTAI / Texas A&M-Kingsville (college radio station) KNGV / Kingsville (Friday football board op / Sunday morning board op) KOUL / Corpus Christi (started as weekend guy, then night … Continue reading

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The Globalization of Country Music?

We were rolling down the road in our small bus in Kigali, Rwanda when we came to a stop in traffic.  Next to us was a local man who was listening to music in his car.  It was rather loud … Continue reading

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47% Favor Government Mandated Control on Radio, TV

A new survey from Rasmussen Reports was recently released on the Fairness Doctrine.  I can’t even believe we are talking about government control of the airwaves (tv, radio, internet, satellite) when every view is readily available to anyone that wants to find … Continue reading

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Glory Days of The Wolf in Dallas

This is an intriguing article from Sean Ross from Edison Media Research, but it is the comments following that take the cake.  I shouldn’t be surprised of how overweight egos respond so vehemently and how many want to take credit for not … Continue reading

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Industry Pro: Beverlee Brannigan

BEVERLEE BRANNIGAN Operation Director and PD Journal KFDI/Wichita   Previous Stations & Positions: KJJY/Des Moines ’81 to ’01  (Middays/Afternoons, PD) WOKQ/Dover-Portsmouth-Rochester ’79-’81 (PM Drive, Promotions)   Years in the biz:  29   Marital Status: Married to Scott   Kids: I … Continue reading

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Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau Top Dogs Weigh in on XM/Sirius Merger

In a Tennessean.com article, Tim DuBois and Butch Spyridon voice their comments regarding the pending XM/Sirius Satellite merger.  The proposed merger of XM and Sirius will be good for consumers, musicians and artists throughout the music industry, and especially good for … Continue reading

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Radio, Rock & Roll, and MTV

Yeah, this is me in my earliest days of being a part of the music industry.  After I graduated high school, my goal was to be on the radio and eventually in the business, and it started in August of the same … Continue reading

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The Politics of Music

What do you get when you put the NAB, RIAA, Department of Commerce, artists, attorneys, and members of Congress in the same room?  A mess. They are fighting it out in Washington D.C. regarding radio performance fees.  Business Week has … Continue reading

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Performance Royalties Battle on the Hill

From Coolfer: Opposing sides will speak tomorrow before the House Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property. The issue is H.R. 4789, the Performance Rights Act, which calls for terrestrial radio to pay performance royalties for broadcasting sound recordings. … Continue reading

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Identity Problem?

Sean Ross at Edison Media Research has written an interesting post about the infusion of former Top 40 artists, namely Bon Jovi, Jessica Simpson, Jewel and Darius Rucker, into the country format. While I directly identify with a label’s desire to … Continue reading

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How Far Will We Chase Older Demos?

The demographic of country radio is skewing higher.  The more we chase the demo, the higher the age keeps getting.  Logic would tell us that in order to grow the format we can’t rely on the older demo, but the … Continue reading

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Industry Pro of the Week: JoJo Cerda

JOJO CERDA PD Clear Channel KTEX/McAllen-Harlingen-Brownsville, TX   Previous Stations & Positions: KTEX Production Director KVEO-NBC TV Promotions Director KFRQ On-Air Mid-days   Years in the biz:   1989…19 yrs?…geez – doesn’t seem that long…cool   Marital Status:  Married   Kids:  … Continue reading

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Clear Channel Opening Up a New Box

Clear Channel is streaming a couple of Pandora stations on various individual web properties. Will this testing of the waters turn into something more long term? Check out the Wired article here.  

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Industry Pro of the Week: Russ Williams

RUSS L. WILLIAMS PD New South Radio WUSJ/Jackson, MS (US 96.3)    Previous Stations & Positions: OM/PD, Clear Channel, Tuscaloosa, AL  2003-2006 PD/MD, 99.9 The Fox, Starkville, Columbus, MS   2002-2003 OM/PD, Radio South, Tuscaloosa, AL  2000-2002 PD/MD, South 107, Rome, GA … Continue reading

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Young Guns: 30 Under 30

Edison Media Research has announced their “30 Under 30″ honorees, which is the nationwide vote for 30 promising talents under 30 years of age in the radio industry.  A special shout out to my friends Daniel Anstandig, President McVay New Media and Scott … Continue reading

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Industry Pro of the Week: Luke Jensen

LUKE JENSEN PD Journal Broadcasting KVOO/Tulsa   Previous Stations & Positions: KBEQ/ Kansas City, Mo        Intern /Pt On-Air KXBZ/Manhattan, Ks            Nights/Afternoons/MD KZKX/Lincoln, Ne                 Afternoons/MD KBEQ/ Kansas City, Mo        Nights/Mornings WSOC/ Charlotte, NC            Afternoons KCKC/ Kansas City               PD/Mornings KVOO/ Tulsa                          … Continue reading

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Wrapping Up the Week in Houston

After trips to Little Rock, Tulsa, Oklahoma City, Dallas and San Antonio, we spent our final day of the week long tour in Houston and a visit to KILT.  Pictured above is MD Greg Fry, Adam Gregory, OM/PD Jeff Garrison and … Continue reading

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