The average audience member tends to listen for only 10 minutes.  So, what are the easiest ways to increase listenership?  Pretty simple: the two easiest and least expensive ways to increase audience are…

Here are sixteen of the songs we’re watching this week. For more insight on how we choose these songs or to get a sneak peek at some of the data we track on 500+ new songs across radio formats, email me at Andy@RadioStationConsultant.com.

Taylor Swift just dropped a juicy little nugget about her new album The Life of a Showgirl: a track called Father Figure that pays tribute to George Michael. Naturally, the internet is losing its mind, Kenny Goss (George’s longtime partner) is misty-eyed, and every entertainment site from TMZ to TikTok is pumping the headline.

Out of this week's data here are a few of the songs that topped those lists nationally in the US and Canada along with a few random specific markets. Eerie, Pennsylvania, Country: Morgan Wallen & Tate McRae "What I Want" (Overall #1).

When rumors started circulating public media could lose their funding, Isgitt and Lagner hatched a plan to save as many stations as possible.

One of the catchiest songs of the year belongs to a man named Myles Smith.

Here are fourteen of the songs we’re watching this week. For more insight on how we choose these songs or to get a sneak peek at some of the data we track on 500+ new songs across radio formats, email me at Andy@RadioStationConsultant.com.

Sports Talk radio is very different from music radio, yet it shares many skills, structures, and strategies.  If you program one or both of these formats, consider these similarities.

Out of this week's data here are a few of the songs that topped those lists nationally in the US and Canada along with a few random specific markets. Lincoln, Nebraska, Rock/Alternative: Sombr "Back to Friends".

Some entertainment reports sound like someone hijacked a teleprompter from Variety and decided to punish you by reading the whole thing out loud. No flavor. No fun. Just a list of things listeners already saw in their feed an hour ago sandwiched between the weather and traffic. That’s not content. That’s spam with a celebrity byline.