Holiday decorations are appearing in stores. Christmas music is appearing on the radio. Starbucks is serving peppermint mochas. All of these add up to one thing: it’s budget season for radio stations. Of course, most managers and programmers are being asked to trim budgets; to do more with less; to make the hard choices. Some…

When we worked for Clear Channel years ago – and back when perceptual study presentations were conducted on location, instead of on Zoom – we found ourselves among a group of more than a dozen PDs and regional programming honchos convened to view a study presentation. In the hotel bar after dinner, the group programming…

We talk with program directors and managers every day who are passionately concerned about the ratings and performance of their stations and spend significant resources and energy gathering insights into the preferences and feelings of their constituents. But, what if one of those listeners wanted to communicate with the station directly? We investigated this back…

Maya Angelou is credited with saying, “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” We’ll submit the emotional connection that radio can have with listeners – how we make people feel – is critical to building and maintaining…

NuVoodoo president Carolyn Gilbert and I often share the writing of these posts, but this one’s personal to me, Leigh Jacobs. I’ve lived in Philly for many years but grew up a few miles down I-95 in Wilmington, Delaware. I caught the “radio bug” at the 10-watt FM station at my high school, started working…

As we’ve said before, in the pursuit of higher AQH you can strive to increase cume, build more listening occasions, or extend listening spans per occasion. Extending listening spans is tough – most listen to radio while doing other things: driving, working, exercising, etc. When those activities are completed, the radio is turned off. We…

Moneyball for Radio means using everything at your disposal to tilt the table in your favor in pursuit of that next tenth of a ratings point. And that includes being judicious with your research and marketing budgets – for 2024 you’ll need to maximize every dollar. When talking to new research clients we regularly hear…

Moneyball for Radio means working to find that next tenth of an AQH Ratings point to bring your station to the next level for your sales team. It means using everything at your disposal to tilt the table in your favor in pursuit of that next tenth. Our latest NuVoodoo Ratings Prospects Study was fielded…

Conversations at radio conventions are peppered with memories of insurgent stations eclipsing incumbents. You never hear about the actual Rating for the station, it’s always AQH Share. AQH Share, where the denominator is the total AQH listening being done in a daypart and/or in a demo. In AQH Rating the denominator is the population in…

We’re meeting with NuVoodoo clients (and could-be clients) to show results from our 22nd Ratings Prospects Study that finished fielding earlier in July. If we’ve missed your company (or our email invitation got caught in a spam folder) for a preview session, please ping us with an email to TellMeMore@nuvoodoo.com and we’ll get you scheduled…