We’ve gotten nice feedback on last week’s CRS 360 session, “If the Song Fits, Play It.” Carolyn Gilbert and I presented findings of a fresh set of data concerning whether or not a sample of Country music fans felt that each of thirty-five titles selected by CRS leadership belonged “on a Country radio station or…

The old music PD adage “what you don’t play won’t hurt you” gets in the way when programmers are trying to expand their cume, follow what listeners are being exposed to in social media, increase variety, etc. This can be especially true in Country radio, where lifelong Country fans can sometimes be resistant to new…

At NuVoodoo we’ve compiled a countdown of the five most important contest takeaways for the new PPM wearables era. #5. The people most likely to participate in the ratings are the ones most likely to play radio contests. In the results below from NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study 19, fielded in Q1 2022, the number one…

With Nielsen set to replace up to 75% of the PPM panel with new wearable meters by the end of 2022, PPM market stations need to take into consideration the coming shift in PPM panelist psychographics. The new program includes a companion smartphone app to retrieve listening data from the wearables and transmit it back…

There’s a lot on our plates right now. We’ve still got Covid going on, the political stage is flaring up in different ways, summer has arrived, and people are going back to work and planning trips – or not. Considering all this, we wanted to ask folks questions about how they’re feeling about some key…