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You haven't read much about Modern AC lately. The female singer/songwriter movement that helped spur the format in the late '90s has long dissipated, leaving only Sheryl Crow, Jewel, and newcomers K.T. Tunstall and Missy Higgins to represent the genre on the most recent Hot AC chart. The edgy, interesting Hot AC stations these days are playing the Black Eyed Peas and Rihanna, not Stone Temple Pilots and Pearl Jam. Then there were the Bob- and Jack-FMs, which managed to upstage many of their newer focused Hot AC counterparts last year by bringing back all those Bryan Adams and Phil Collins records that Hot AC once phased out because of Modern AC.
Country listeners, who have historically been less digitally-minded than their counterparts in other formats, have shown a lot more interest in new technology over the last year, according to America's largest-ever study of country P1 listeners, conducted by Country Radio Broadcasters and Edison Media Research. The results suggest that country radio needs to become aggressive in its new media strategy for 2006.