Coronavirus: Getting Back to Normal Yet?

On the positive side, we’re seeing the lowest levels of extreme concern about the coronavirus in our on-going NuVoodoo tracking that we’ve seen since mid-March. The three-day snapshot shown here from June 8-11 puts extreme concern at just 32% overall – though as high as 48% in the Northeast and as low as 22% in…

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Coronavirus Updates: Still Necessary?

NuVoodoo has been tracking concern about the coronavirus for nearly three months. We’ve watched extreme concern dip below 40% since the start of the Memorial Day weekend – and hope it will be able to continue to ease back. Looking at data from 7 days ending May 27, we see overall concern across the nation…

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Making Coronavirus Coverage Count

NuVoodoo has been tracking concern about the coronavirus since March 9 – more than two months. Each day sees a sample of at least 2,000 persons 16-54 nationwide. It’s a ton of data. Our team updates the tracking information on our website every day and is adding new results all the time. You can view…

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COVID-19 Recovery Messaging

We’ve gotten nice feedback on the information and ideas released in last week’s NuVoodoo webinar, Covering and Recovering from COVID-19: Practical Steps to Help Your Listeners & Your Station Through the Pandemic & Beyond. If you did miss the webinar, fear not, the recording is posted on our website at nuvoodoo.com/webinars – you’ll get all…

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New Webinar to Get You Through and Beyond COVID-19

With well over a month quarantined (or operating as essential services in station buildings) for many of us, we’re all ready for things to get back to normal. The question of “when” is up to public officials, but it’s certain that “how” won’t simply be a matter of resuming what we were doing in February.…

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Music vs. COVID Content: Striking the Balance

Even those of us expert at working from home are finding it hard to remember what “outside” and “hanging out with people we’re not related to” felt like after a month plus. As former radio programmers, the three of us collaborating on this piece (Mike O’Connor, PJ Kling and I) are all thinking about how…

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Radio Programming & Coronavirus: What Can You Do?

You’ve probably seen the meme detailing the sacrifice we must all make, akin to our grandparents’: But Radio doesn’t get that luxury. There is no “sitting on the couch” version of adjusting to this new (hopefully temporary) normal. Over the years, Radio has struggled to defend what were once key footholds: TV news shows supplanted…

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