Media analysis specialist The Media Audit has a new study, the National Radio Format Report, examining the media consumption habits of radio listeners. The conclusion? Non-radio media consumption ...

Labels are promoting fewer tracks to radio, and stations are programming more on data than on personal taste, meaning big hits "tend to have a wider footprint" on the airwaves. By Elias Leight Teddy ...

Beasley Media Group is trying a twist on podcasting by launching a radio format called Podcast Radio U.S. in four markets. It describes this as a “podcast multiplatform radio format” that will be ...

Thanks to the dozens of readers who would love to be radio programmers. But first, the Quiz Question. This is by far the hardest question I’ve asked in these writings: What singer-songwriter achieved ...

Music critics these days love to argue about "rockism," the unexamined prejudices we bring to our musical judgements, and "poptimism," an effort to celebrate commercial stuff that some think goes way ...

(By Larry Rosin) If one were to put the ‘bundle’ of radio formats that depend on new, hit music together, in the fashion of a mutual fund, it would have performed disastrously over the last decade. It ...

We asked programming directors from some of the country's leading Triple A stations to answer some questions about 25 years of format history. By Andrew Unterberger This week, we’re celebrating the ...

Digital radio receivers go on sale Wednesday, ushering in a format that had been years in the making. Proponents of digital radio tout the format's CD-like fidelity in over-the-air broadcasts. Only a ...

Numerous format changes late last year caused a major shake-up in the first-quarter survey results of central Indiana's radio-listening habits. "It's a weird book," said Scott Uecker, general manager ...

Each summer, Americans favor a particular radio format, and the summer of 2018 is no exception. This year, according to Nielsen, the Classic Hits format saw the largest boost in audience during the ...