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Bill Gavin's Advice To A New Music Director
Program Notes From Bill GavinYou don’t know who he was? Gavin was one of the most important men in the music radio business. I would go so far as to say he was the most important radio music director who ever lived. Bill was into middle-age when Rock ‘n Roll hit. He was an announcer and music director at stations…
Critique - the All A.I. Radio Station
What does an old pro have to say about how an AI does radio?For the middle third of my career, I was an independant radio programming consultant. Managers and owners hired guys like me to improve the sound and the ratings of their radio stations. One of the things I did was to prepare written critiques of my client station. …
Radio Drops #17 - Positioning
Positioning – The Battle For Your MindMusic radio is a self-taught craft. To be more successful, read all you can find about media. “Positioning – The Battle For Your Mind” was published in the early 80s. It has a big influence on the thinking of radio program directors at the time. It’s simple lessons can still inspire new ideas about…
Radio Drops #16 - Selecting New Music
For CHR and Other Today’s Hits Radio StationsThe fact is new and unfamiliar songs are the number one reason listeners switch stations. This is particularly true with teen-to-thirty-year olds, who also are the most eager consumers of new music. These folks like new music a lot. But they only like the new music that they Like! The thing they like the…
Radio Drops #15 - Picking the Hits; Early Lessons
It used to be a lot easier.When yours was the only Top 40, or only Country, or only R & B station in town, you could afford to make a lot of mistakes. The mistakes being: Playing stiffs. Non-Hit songs. The songs that cause some listeners to switch stations. If yours was the only station in town with your music…
Formatting Christmas
Video How-toIt’s pretty much the same every year. A few new titles maybe. We’ve always got to deal with Title separation and multiple songs by the singers. For some help, we have three videos about formatting the Christmas season. Click to the Videos
MusicBrainz
The Latest Ultimate TaggerI’ve just been tipped about this one. I regularly have M1 users who are moving from one automation system to another and then discover that their .wav files have no meta. Download the free app and point it to a folder filled with your song audio files and let it do some magic tagging for you. About the…
Talking About Radio
Radio veteran John Leslie has been talking with radio people on his podcast for about near two years now. And he’s talked with a lot of us. I was number 160! He and I did a sit-down in October (’24) for about 70 minutes. If I don’t have a script, I tend to ramble….Here’s a link to the podcast.