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...

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...

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...

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:...

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 in the middle 80’s. It...

Steve Warren On The Air

Alright folks, after some few requests and years of hold-out, I’m posting a couple of my old tapes of me-on-the-air for your listening amusement. These snap-shots of DJ work are called Airchecks. When looking for a new job, a move up in market size, a bigger...