NuVoodoo has dedicated the back half of 2023 to the Fall of Moneyball for Radio, sharing lots of little ways to help you grow your station ratings by a tenth of a point.  It can make a big difference in station revenue.  Now that report cards are rolling in, we thought it timely to share…

In the TV era, radio’s distinction was that it’s live and local, right? Though, even in the heyday of the DJ era, most of the “local” programming consisted of pre-recorded music. But radio gave more time to its on-air talent (especially in the days before PPM) and that allowed some greater amount of “local” content.…

Looking ahead to a fresh NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study in the New Year – which is six weeks away – we were looking at things we’d asked about in past studies but haven’t updated recently. In 2024 it will be ten years since we asked respondents which of two descriptions was closer to how they…

If you’ve run a digital marketing campaign in the past or hired experts to execute on your behalf, you’ve undoubtedly been inundated by a dizzying array of campaign performance metrics. Getting to know the dozens of success markers that have been widely adopted for measuring campaign performance can be like mastering a foreign language. But…

The Cambridge Dictionary defines “anodyne” as “intended to avoid causing offense or disagreement, especially by not expressing strong feelings or opinions.” That adjective often came up when describing network TV programming in the 1960s and 1970s, programming that was created under the theory of least objectionable programming. The concept of least objectionable or least offensive…