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Four years ago, I wrote an article identifying Mainstream AC radio as “The Format With One Current.” At that time, major-market AC stations were playing an average of eight “current” songs, most of them effectively recurrents. Only one of the Mainstream AC top five songs at the time was still a current on any other […] […]

In a major change of policy, broadcast ratings data will be no-longer be made available in Canada. The Summer 2022 PPM ratings released last week for the period running from May 30 to August 28 were released with a note stating “Effective the start of the 2022-23 broadcast year (August 29, 2022), the Radio Topline […] […]

Sage Weil and Mike Crute’s Civic Media continues its rapid expansion across the state of Wisconsin with the purchase of Country “Thunder 95.7” WDMO Baldwin and the Silent pair of 910 WCBN Hayward, and 1260 WXCE/107.3 W297CU Amery from Zoe Communications. The $700,000 purchase includes the land used for WXCE’s tower site. A Time Brokerage […] […]

Cumulus Media Country “K-Bull 93” KUBL Salt Lake City has rebranded as “93.3 The Bull“. While the rebranding has taken effect on-air, the station has yet to revise its logo on its digital platforms. Nor have their been any additional changes to the station, which continues to feature Lexi & Banks in mornings and Matt […] […]

Following the promotion of David Santrella from President of Broadcast Media to Chief Executive Officer at the start of 2022, Salem Media Group has announced a number of promotions to their broadcast media division to take effect at the start of 2023. Allen Power, who serves as Senior Vice President overseeing all of Salem’s stations […] […]

Estrella Media has announced the appointment of Enrique Guillen as Chief Content Officer overseeing the domestic and global content strategy for Estrella Media’s television, streaming, digital, audio, events, and digital businesses, including developing, producing, and acquiring all television and film content, overseeing network and station programming, news, sports, digital content, and studio productions. Guillen joins […] […]