(By Lee Abrams) The next big radio format will not be a format at all. We’re past the era of a hot new format being replicated across the land. The next new “format” will be based on 360-degree brand ...

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 ...

When was the last time a new format came along, stuck around and made money for managers across the country? Is it really possible to come up with a brand new format these days? One that actually ...

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 ...

Fifty years this month, May 5, 1965, Boss Radio 93 KHJ in Los Angeles (or as it was referred to at times as "Boss" Angeles) hard launched its Top 40 format on the 930 AM frequency. Little did it know ...

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 ...

Quiet storm began as a radio format. In the 1970s, a style of music emerged in popularity on the late-night radio airwaves – one which celebrated slow tempos, punctuated with soulful, intimate vocals.

In an increasingly crowded Twin Cities radio market, industry behemoth iHeartMedia (IHM, formerly Clear Channel Communications) added two entirely new local stations in June: Hot 102.5, a classic ...

Radio programmers are facing tough decisions and complex choices as they work toward keeping listeners and attracting new ones. Experimenting with a station’s format is risky, and while there are no ...

Although more journalists and scholars than ever before seem invested in exposing country radio’s gender disparity problem, a study released on Friday (April 26), titled Gender Representation on ...

More evidence of content cuts at CC Radio: Their much-acclaimed Format Lab is gone from the web. Replaced by their “I (Heart) Music” website for mobile phones. The list now only includes a few HD ...