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January 2022 (1/6 – 2/2) Nielsen Audio Ratings Day 3: WDAV Makes History

Day 3 of Nielsen Audio’s PPM releases are now available for Charlotte, Portland, San Antonio, Sacramento, Salt Lake City, Orlando, Las Vegas, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Cleveland and Columbus. All the numbers can be found at RadioInsight.com/Ratings. Classical 89.9 WDAV Charlotte has done something today that had never been done in PPM history. With WDAV’s […] […]

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Trevor Morini Returns To iHeartMedia Raleigh As VP/Programming & G105 PD

iHeartMedia has announced the appointment of Trevor Morini as Vice President of Programming for their Raleigh cluster and Program Director of CHR “G105” WDCG. The move marks a return to the cluster for Morini, who previously served as SVP/Programming from December 2019 to December 2020. After being part of iHeartMedia’s budget cuts at the time, […] […]

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91X Moves To Classic Alternative

After celebrating their 40th anniversary with an “A to XYZ” alphabetical rundown of the biggest songs from their history from February 14 through 23, Local Media San Diego relaunched Alternative “91X” XETRA-FM Tijuana/San Diego this morning with a move to an 80s/90s focused Classic Alternative playlist. While the playlist shift took effect last night following […] […]

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Did Radio Destroy the Recurrent?

In the early days of my radio education, it was probably the third programming term I learned: after “format” and “playlist,” there was “recurrent.” And knowing how to handle those former power rotation songs that had been hits over the last year or so was a key part of any programmer’s strategy. The rise of […] […]

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Nielsen Reissues Long Island, Middlesex/Somerset/Union & San Jose Ratings

Nielsen has reissued the January 2022 monthlies for three of the Day 1 markets issued on Tuesday due to omitting stations owned by iHeartMedia. The monthlies for Nassau/Suffolk NY, San Jose CA, and Middlesex/Somerset/Union NJ were reissued with the iHeart owned stations in New York and San Francisco that are subscribing to those suburban markets […] […]