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A lot of shuffling took place on the Media Monitors list last week. GEICO moved back to the top spot (from sixth) by running 52,133 on radio stations across America. The Fox Entertainment Group, promoting TV programs, moved from 12th to second with 50,886.

It's called "CMA’s 2017 Country Music Streaming Study: The Way Forward To Drive Consumption." The data will be presented in a session Wednesday, February 7, at 10 a.m. at the Country Radio Seminar in Nashville. Here's what the research will tell us...

The company says it flipped the frequencies of two Country stations on January 15. Texas Red Dirt Country KPUR-FM/“The Armadillo” will move from 107.1 to the more powerful 100,000-watt 95.7. KARX-FM will segue to its new home at 107.1 as NASH Icon 107.1 FM. There will be no changes in personnel or programming when the flip takes place.

That's what former WGN Chicago (and now Entercom Chicago Market Manager) Jimmy deCastro called Todd Manley when Manley worked for deCastro as WGN's VP of Content & Programming. Now Manley sits in the GM seat, running one of the most recognizable set of call letters in the country. What's his plan now that he has the keys?

(By Lisa Thal) "You can't manage what you don't measure." How many times have you heard that? This is to say that, unless you measure something, you can't manage improvement. Sure, it’s our responsibility to make sure we're taking advantage of all the systems available to help us measure our team's effectiveness, but how do you measure your sales team’s emotions?

(By Deborah Parenti) The new year is a good time to think not only about what we want to accomplish, but to resolve how we’ll do that. And resolve whether we want to be “whiners or shiners.” Do you want to grow your career? What steps are you willing to take to make it happen? Since graduating from college, how many industry seminars have you attended?

Judging by the amount of feedback we received from his Thursday column, Walter Sabo struck a nerve yesterday. In his piece entitled "The Sad State of Radio...People," Sabo stated that nobody has a problem with radio, except radio people. In case you missed it, here's Sabo's column again...and your comments about it from Thursday.

(By Ronald Robinson) Let’s be clear: Radio creative is occasionally applied to generate the retention of interest in listening to the ads, and to generate emotions in an audience. This is in order to influence them for the benefit of the station and its advertisers. This approach, this process, is far more powerful than simply delivering content information. 

(By Eric Rhoads) I was first exposed to Dick Orkin’s voice when listening to the Chickenman series on WOWO in my hometown of Fort Wayne, Indiana, during my youth. Though that was my parents’ and grandparents’ station, I tuned in for Chickenman because I didn’t want to miss an episode. The same became true for The Secret Adventures of the Tooth Fairy.