Month: June 2021

Each month Ratings Expert Chris Huff compiles a list of the top 50 stations in average quarter hour share and cumulative audience for the 48 markets that are served measurement by Nielsen Audio’s Portable People Meter. This month shows no changes to the leader boards with Audacy AC “Lite 100.5” WRCH Hartford remaining on top […] […]

Radio One Hip Hop “iPower 92.1/104.1” WCDX Mechanicvsille/Richmond and W281AW Petersburg VA have announced the addition of Alvin ‘Big Nat’ Smalls as evening host. Big Nat joins WCDX from Audacy’s crosstown “106.5 The Beat” WBTJ Richmond where he served as Music Director/midday host since 2007. While WBTJ was owned by iHeartMedia he also tracked afternoons […] […]

Seven Mountains Media appears to have settled on a format for its recently acquired 107.7 WCIG Dallas/Scranton PA.

Plus a brighter sound in Baltimore, another nationalized brand in Canada and potential changes in far-Northern New York and on the Kentucky/Ohio border. […]

Max Media has announced the promotion of Sean Rhoads from VP/Sales to President/General Manger of Rhythmic AC “Jammin 101.5” KJHM Watkins and CHR “Hot 107.1” KFCO Bennett/Denver CO. Rhoads has been with the stations since 2010 serving in multiple sales positions including Senior Account Executive, Digital Sales Director, General Sales Manager and since 2016 Vice […] […]

Just six months after launching Alternative “Gelly 94.1” 1240 WFSX/94.1 W231DC Fort Myers/93.7 WHEL-HD2 Sanibel FL, Sun Broadcasting has moved the brand exclusively to the HD subchannel. Now branding as just “Gelly Radio“, the move enabled Sun to launch Regional Mexican “La Raza 94.1” on 1240 WFSX/94.1 W231DC this week. The move continues the growing […] […]

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 […] […]