Month: September 2021

Nielsen begins its monthly release of PPM ratings with today’s Day 1 update including New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston/Galveston, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Long Island, Riverside/San Bernardino, San Jose, and Middlesex/Somerset/Union. All the numbers can be found at RadioInsight.com/Ratings. After MediaCo Adult R&B 107.5 WBLS broke forty year record highs last month, […] […]

Media One Group shifted Hot AC “Mix 97.1” WREO-FM Ashtabula OH to a softer playlist as “Lite Mix 97.1” on Labor Day. Unlike most Soft AC’s the station says it is retaining its focus on the 1990s through now positioning on its website as “The best lite rock music, the softer hits, of the past […] […]

Ahead of the expected LMA of “98.7 ESPN New York” 1050 WEPN/98.7 WEPN-FM and “ESPN LA 710” KSPN/1110 KRDC Los Angeles to Good Karma Brands, Tim McCarthy has told staffers he will be departing as SVP/General Manager of both stations at the end of the month. As first reported by the New York Post, McCarthy’s […] […]

Pop music’s resurgence was peaking in 1999. Top 40 radio was varied — truly embracing Hip-Hop and R&B for the first time in a decade; still drawing heavily from Modern AC; welcoming a Latin crossover mini-boom; embracing a third wave of teen acts, as Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera joined ‘N Sync and Backstreet Boys. […] […]