Stasis We Can't Believe In, Or Where Did All The Format Changes Go?
A year ago, the fall ratings book kicked off with a typically heavy series of format flips. This fall, however, format launches have slowed to a crawl, and many of those that have taken place involve moving existing stations from AM to FM (or to a second frequency). So why is there more excitement about new iPhone apps than new radio stations? The economy is one culprit, but Edison Media Research VP Sean Ross digs deeper in the new Ross On Radio: Stasis We Can't Believe In? Or, Where Did All The Format Changes Go?
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Edison's Joe Lenski Discusses: Can The State Polls Be Trusted?
Edison Executive Vice President Joe Lenski recently appeared on a panel co-sponsored by the New York and New Jersey chapters of the American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) on the topic of state polling for the 2008 Presidential Election....
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V103 Celebrates 20 Years As Urban AC Landscape Changes
WVAZ (V103) Chicago, which launched 20 years ago this week, wasn't the first Urban AC, but it was the format's breakthrough. Under then-co-owner Barry Mayo, now president of Radio One, and OM Tony Kidd, V103 found a formula that was, in retrospect, so simple that it was hard to believe it hadn't been done everywhere. And soon it was. In 2008, Urban AC faces a more complicated landscape, informed, but hardly created by the advent of PPM. Edison Media Research VP Sean Ross looks at V103's birth and the format's evolution in this week's Ross On Radio.
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Oldies Become Classic Hits, And Motown Goes MIA
During the boom years of the Oldies format, '60s R&B (particularly Motown) was a reliable core sound - exposed widely in movies and TV commercials and viable even for AC radio. So it's a little surprising to look at the 50 most-played songs at today's Classic Hits format and find only a handful of R&B titles. Or to see that "Respect" got less airplay last week than "Dancing In The Moonlight." Edison Media Research VP Sean Ross discusses why as "Oldies Becomes Classic Hits and Motown Goes MIA."
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Special Online Panel - The Future of Webcasting
Many webcasters have said that the music royalty rates set by the Copyright Royalty Board are so high that they will be forced offline. With that in mind, the Webcaster Settlement Act was introduced to allow webcasters to continue to...
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