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The Lost Factor 1997: Even in a Comeback Year, Some Songs Don’t

It was the year of the Top 40 comeback, driven by teen pop, Modern AC, bigger Hip-Hop/R&B crossovers, and heard on a rapidly growing number of Top 40 stations. But 1997 was also a year that challenges the calculations of the Lost Factor. The Lost Factor is our calculation of the difference between a song’s […] […]

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Station Sales Week Of 6/18

Windhorse Partners LP will abandon its 51.3 percent equity stake in Great Eastern Radio’s fifteen stations and eight translators in New Hampshire and Vermont. Windhorse currently owns a 90 percent stake in Jeff Shapiro’s Vertical CP, which in turn owns 55.8 percent of the company. For a combined $375,000, Shapiro and the minority partners will […] […]