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90s/2000s Dance Mixshow Rebrands As The Drop

Radio and dance music veterans Brett Holcomb and Art Rooney announce that their weekly mix show will be rebranded as The Drop. The 2-hour mix show which is mixed by Rooney and hosted by Brett Holcomb highlights the dance and EDM hits of the 90s and early 2000s. “We realized that if we wanted to […] […]

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Who Had The Hits In 2021?

  In 2021, current-based formats visibly struggled, even compared to radio overall, and as a result, new music became harder for radio to break. Top 40 joined Alternative and Hip-Hop/R&B in the 3-4 share region, or lower, meaning that a radio hit as obvious as “Levitating” could take months to register in their own research. […] […]

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Forever Expands Its Nu Brand In Central PA

After launching CHR “Nu 92.7” WNUU Starview/York PA in October, Forever Media has expanded the brand to two additional stations. Hot AC’s “Happy 95.3/1280” WHVR/W237EN Hanover and “Happy 93.7/1320” WGET/W229DK Gettysburg have flipped to the CHR brand as “Nu 95.3” and “Nu 93.7” respectively. The two stations share a playlist coming from Westwood One, but […] […]

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Station Sales Week Of 1/7

Wolfhouse Radio Group sells Regional Mexican “Radio Tigre 1570” KTGE Salinas CA to Jesse Portillo’s Big Radio Pro for $250,000. An LMA took effect on January 1. The Estate of Robert Cummings Toole sells Classic Hits “96.9 The River” KQRV Deer Lodge and 99.3 K257AF Butte MT to Michelle and Ronald Davis’ Butte Broadcasting for […] […]