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Country Music 2013: The Top Songs, Artists, and Stats
- 12/27/2013
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: country music
No CommentsIf we were talking about wrestling, Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan would have been the Tag Team of the Year. While that’s one of the few awards Country doesn’t have yet, Blake and Luke do win our award for best A&O&B chart performers of 2013. The Songs Driven by our weekly research, here is how
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Larry Lujack and the Skill of ‘Being Real’
- 12/20/2013
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: air talent
Google Larry Lujack and you’ll get roughly 73,000 results. His passing December 18th generated an outpouring of accolades from listeners and co-workers alike. I asked Country Aircheck Publisher/CEO Lon Helton about growing up listening to Larry and later working in the same market with him when Lon was at Chicago’s WMAQ. “He was just so compelling ….
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What On Air Talent Can Learn from Actors and “The Sound of Music Live!”
- 12/11/2013
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: air talent, radio programming
Acting is hard. If you don’t believe it, look at some of the reviews otherwise-superstar Carrie Underwood has gotten following her performance in “The Sound of Music Live!” on NBC last week. Even members of the actual Von Trapp weighed in! Among other things, great acting involves timing, showing and evoking emotion, always being in
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Passion, Persuasion & Persistence
- 12/05/2013
- Posted by: B Brenner Believes...
- Category: Uncategorized
There are frequent events where Nashville Mayor Karl Dean addresses the country music industry. Each time the message is passionate and consistent. He wants Nashville to be the city everyone wants to move to, live in and work in. He has never wavered from his commitment to growing the “Music City” Brand. He is focused
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Beyond the Trophy: More Reasons to Enter Station/Personality of the Year Competitions
- 11/15/2013
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: radio programming
A while back I posted 5 reasons why your station should enter Station/Personality of the Year competitions (click to read). Here are three more just in time for the Academy of Country Music’s Station of the Year and On-Air Personality of the Year competition which is open for submissions through December 6th (get information here or give
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And the Winner Is… A&O&B’s Quick Online Poll of Listener and Industry ‘Takes’ on the 2013 CMA Awards Show
- 11/08/2013
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: Uncategorized
Blake, Taylor, and Florida-Georgia Line were among those who took home multiple CMA trophies this week, but the show itself was a winner too with listeners and the industry in our quick and admittedly unscientific post-show online poll. And, just as I blogged in our post-ACM Awards Show poll earlier this year, listeners were more
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“Re-Attention:” The Challenge of Getting Attention Again Once You’ve Lost It
- 10/30/2013
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: radio programming
Getting attention is hard enough. Getting “re-attention” may even be harder. Maintaining attention infers that attention is ongoing. “Re-attention” however suggests that there’s been a break in the level of interest, and that the reasons for this disconnect have to be identified and then reconciled before a relationship can be reestablished. There can be positive
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Thoughts from the Great Guerrilla Marketer
- 10/12/2013
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: marketing
I don’t remember when I first read something Jay Conrad Levinson wrote. I do remember though that it made me a fan. Having read Seth Godin’s blog last night that Jay – a former VP and Creative Director at the J. Walter Thompson and Leo Burnett advertising agencies – had passed away, I went to the office and pulled out my copy
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Country Too Pop? Too Rock? Listeners on Living in Harmony
- 09/17/2013
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: country music, country radio
We’ve all read it or heard it by now – the CJJR-FM interview where Zac Brown called Luke Bryan’s current single, “the worst song I’ve ever heard” and that some songs on country radio make him “ashamed to even be in the same genre.” Well, at least we know where he stands. And of course he’s
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Radio Algebra: Five Formulae for Success
- 08/30/2013
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: radio programming
“Radio Algebra: Five Formulae for Success” was something I wrote a number of years ago when Jaye and I presented a daylong programming and talent seminar in Atlantic City. I wrote them to be playful yet helpful, not of course to be serious math. Through the years we’ve used the Five Formulae as