Pop Plunges, Country Surges In 2023 Radio Format Analysis
ChartCipher, an AI-powered analytics platform focused on hit songs, has unveiled three key trends of Billboard’s Radio Songs chart for the year 2023. The data reveals great, yet unsurprising, news for Country music with a warning for Pop as it hits a 23-year low.
Radio Ink’s Countdown To NAB Show 2024: Jacobs Media
Radio Ink is counting down to NAB Show 2024 at the Las Vegas Convention Center with some of radio’s biggest innovators in the weeks leading up to April 13-17. To open, we sit down with Jacobs Media President Fred Jacobs and General Manager Paul Jacobs.
‘You Belong Here’ and Beyond: Michelle Duke Talks Radio’s Future
With recruitment remaining a key pain point for radio, Radio Ink sat down with Michelle Duke, President of the NAB Leadership Foundation, about the birth of the "You Belong Here" initiative and what it takes for stations to win over young talent.
Marketers Show Marked Confidence In AM/FM Advertising
A new report suggests that the advertising industry is heading towards a robust growth period, marked by increased spending, strategic brand investment, and innovative uses of AI, with advertisers experiencing more confidence in backing AM/FM budgets.
Audacy Restructure Ends FCC Grandfathering, Forces Divestment
As Audacy seeks the Federal Communications Commission's approval to exit from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, the broadcaster will be doing so with at least one fewer station. The broadcaster will be forced to divest a South Carolina station due to the restructuring.
State Broadcast Leaders Report The State Of Radio On Capitol Hill
With the immediate success of radio's annual trek to D.C. apparent in the recent addition of support to both the AM For Every Vehicle Act and the Local Radio Freedom Act, Radio Ink talked with two state broadcast leaders about radio's temperature on the Hill.
As AMFA Fades, musicFIRST Takes Up The Main Studio Rule
The musicFIRST Coalition and Future of Music Coalition have submitted comments on an FCC NPRM that would reward local content and journalism that take digs at radio broadcasters while suggesting the Main Studio Rule be reinstated.
BIA Tempers 2024 Ad Forecast As Economic Unease Continues
Two months into 2024, BIA Advisory Services has revised its US Local Advertising Forecast for the year - and it's not good news for radio. In October, BIA predicted a tidal wave of local ad spending fueled by political revenue, but that flood may be diverting elsewhere.
Radio Wallops Spotify, Pandora In Ad-Supported Audio Disparity
"Only 5% of Americans listen to ad-supported Spotify in a typical day....64% listen to AM/FM radio." So says Cumulus Media Chief Insights Officer Pierre Bouvard in the wake of seven new findings on ad-supported audio from Edison Research’s Share of Ear report.
Biden & Trump Pour Big Money Into AM/FM As Radio Proves Vital
"Meeting voters where they are," is the reasoning behind President Joe Biden's multi-million dollar radio advertising push in battleground states, announced on Friday. The six-week push comes as former President Donald Trump also turns to the reach of AM/FM.
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