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Spotify Drops Heardle: The Importance of Human Curation and Delivering Expectations

For a while, the “name that tune” game Heardle wasn’t just a music trivia phenomenon, but a pretty good gauge of how well-remembered songs were thanks to metrics supplied by the game’s creator. After the game was sold to Spotify, that information was no longer shared, and Spotify’s clues became more obscure, and more obviously […] […]

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Mike O’Reilly Joins KCMO-FM As Morning Host

Cumulus Media Classic Hits 94.9 KCMO-FM Shawnee KS/Kansas City has announced that Mike O’Reilly will join the station as morning host alongside MacKenzie Justice. O’Reilly rejoined Cumulus Kansas City last fall as Integrated Marketing & Digital Content Director after previously serving as Program Director of CHR “95.7 The Vibe” KCHZ and Alternative “105.1 The X” […] […]

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Central PA Newspapers To Be Gifted To WITF

Steinman Communications is donating its newspaper holdings in Central Pennsylvania to public media operator WITF Inc. WITF, which operates Public News/Talk 89.5 WITF-FM Harrisburg/93.3 WYPM Chambersburg/99.9 W260CC Lancaster as well as PBS affiliate WITF-TV, will add the daily LNP newspaper, LancasterOnline.com, the weekly newspapers The Lititz Record-Express and The Ephrata Review, and Pennsylvania state government […] […]

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Hot 97 Taps In TT Torrez For Middays

MediaCo Hip Hop “Hot 97” WQHT New York has announced that TT Torrez will move into the station’s open midday slot for “Tap in with TT” starting Thursday, April 27. The Bronx native has been with WQHT since 2014 serving as a multimedia personality in addition to her roles as VP/Arist & Label Relations and […] […]

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Pocono 103.1 Takes A Bit Out Of Its Name

After the March frequency swap between Country “Bigfoot 103.1” 840 WVPO/103.1 W276DG Stroudsburg and Classic Hits “Pocono 96.7” WABT-FM (turned WPCO) Lehman Township/97.3 W247AE East Stroudsburg, Seven Mountains Media has further revamped its Classic Hits brand. What had become “Pocono 103.1” is now just “Poco 103” following the station’s relaunch at 9am today. Gary Cee, […] […]