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· Formatting

What I Did When Don Everly Died

I was on the air at Gulf 104 in Tallahassee when Elvis died in August of ’77.  Today,  I don’t remember which song I played after making the announcement about it. The station was CHR with an Album Rock edge and we didn’t normally play Elvis. But this was certainly a cultural event it and it made sense for us…

Steve Warren

· Radio Stuff

Strangest Recent Radio Story

In case you missed it in the radio trade papers, here’s a link to the new report.  An AM signal at 1620 on the dial in Washington D. C. began playing a loop of traffic information on the day of Obama’s inauguration,  January 21, 2013. The loop broadcast continuously for the next eight years until this past March.  Nobody noticed.

Steve Warren

· Radio Stuff

Alexa Skills for US Stations

One of our long-time MusicONE users has a side-gig making Google and Alexa skills for radio stations. If your listeners can’t now say:  “Alexa play (my station)”, the contact Steven Brown. His email is:   songsintime@gmail.com He set-up Alexa for my station this week.  It is surprisingly pleasant to tell her to play my station and Alexa does her thing. Steven…

Steve Warren

· Radio Stuff

How To Be A Radio Program Director

Pat Holiday and I haven’t met but we ran in the same small circle of traveling radio program directors a few decades back.  Radio journalist Sean Ross’s column recently mentioned that Pat has posted a YouTube series of tutorials, training sessions about the job of radio program director.  I’ve watched the first two and, speaking as a guy who published…

Steve Warren

· Radio Stuff

Twelve Minutes with Lee Abrams

Lee Abrams was a major force in the music radio business before his 20th birthday.  The Progressive Rock  (aka: Album Rock) format was born in San Francisco about ’67 or so.  It was near-totally free form for its first six years or so.  In the early 70’s young Lee conceived a format that was soon known as “Superstars” and suddenly…

Steve Warren

· TrafficONE

A New Site for TrafficONE

Our traffic & billing application now has it’s own website. You can see it in action in the posted videos.

Steve Warren

· Radio Stuff

The Listenership Evolves

Pandora has released some  findings from an audience and listenership survey conducted by the respected research company, Edison Media.  Click here for a brief overview published on the RAIN blog 8/3/20. Some personal observations on a couple of items in the summary: As always, heavy listeners seek “companionship”. Once again, audio ads are more likely to put customers in the store…

Steve Warren

· Uncategorized

The Programming Operations Manual

A lot of M1 users are aware of my extensive career in this business and a whole bunch more radio guys know my name because several thousand of them bought my book.  I published my Ops/Manual at the start of my programming consulting career..

Steve Warren

· Uncategorized

Steve Warren On The Air

Alright folks, after some few requests and years of hold-out, I’m posting a couple of my old airchecks; me-on-the-air for your listening amusement. I really date myself here, kids.  I played “A Hard Day’s Night” as a Current! 

Steve Warren

· Uncategorized

Your Voice Make You Cringe? Here's Why

It didn’t happen to me because I was fortunate to be born with a “radio” voice that sounded adult the first time I heard it on the tape recorder in Spanish class when I was 15. I only cringe when I listen to some of my old airchecks and that’s because what I was sometimes doing with my voice was…

Steve Warren