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2015
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If You See Something, Say Something: Three Ways to Turn Your Life Into Awesome Content
- 12/23/2015
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: DJs
No CommentsGuest Blogger: Christie Maturo Your life is a rich source of content. That’s true year-round but especially this time of year. So if you haven’t mined your world for content in a while, there’s no better time than now to look at what’s around you. For example… This caught my eye in the grocery store.
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A&O&B’s Annual Top 10 for the Year: The Top Songs and Artists of 2015
- 12/18/2015
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: country radio programming
If you need a break from your Christmas shopping list, try this list: A&O&B’s annual Top 10 Songs and Artists of the Year. Each December we compile our research-driven list from our online and call-out data and data rankings for every song we played and tested for at least six weeks during the previous 12
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7 Components of Todays Radio: A Quick PD Checklist
- 12/04/2015
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: radio programming
As part of her “Radio Matters” presentation at the 2015 Nielsen Total Audio Conference, the RAB’s Erica Farber shared this slide about radio’s composition. While primarily part of a larger, advertiser-directed initiative, the PD in me also saw this slide as a quick programming checklist. How are you doing in each of these areas? Watch the
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Country Infographic: A Half Dozen Facts to Make You The Most Interesting Person at the Thanksgiving Table
- 11/25/2015
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: country music
Haven’t had time to do show-prep for the family Thanksgiving Dinner? No worries! Here’s a Country Thanksgiving Infographic from A&O&B guaranteed to help you keep the table entertained between seconds and dessert. Visually stimulating, fun, and shareable, Infographics also make great email content. Additionally, Socialmediatoday.com reports Infographics as a marketing tool can increase traffic 12%. Chew on
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Chris Stapleton: Winner. Country Radio Haters: Losers
- 11/09/2015
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: Uncategorized
Taylor Swift is right: the haters gonna hate. For the haters of mainstream country radio, Chris Stapleton’s wins Wednesday night at the CMAs provided them an unfortunate and inappropriate opportunity to turn trophies into missiles and launch them not only at country radio but also at some of the format’s biggest stars – the ones
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Infographic: 11 Fun Facts about the CMA’s
- 11/03/2015
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: CMA Awards, country radio
Whether you’ll be watching the CMA Awards show in the audience or at home, here are 11 fun facts to share with friends or just add to your viewing enjoyment:
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World Statistics Day, Back to the Future, and the “Signal and the Noise” of TSL
- 10/30/2015
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: radio programming
Last week was a geek-fest. First, World Statistics Day on the 20th and then “Back to the Future Day” on the 21st. For me, last week also included an in-depth, somewhat geeky discussion with a station about Time Spent Listening. That was a trifecta that begged for a blog. While World Statistics Day didn’t go
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It Gets Late Early Out There
- 09/25/2015
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: radio programming
Wisdom can come from anywhere. As a baseball fan – and especially a Yankees fan – learning of the passing of Hall of Famer Yogi Berra was sad news indeed. I was visiting a station rife with baseball fans when the news broke. Their break room has something very cool in it – a chalk
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2 DAYS + 400 CREATIVES: Highlights from Morning Show Boot Camp 27
- 08/28/2015
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: DJs
What if you could spend two days sharing ideas with hundreds of extremely creative, self-motivated, often fearless radio talent and executives bent on success? I got to do that earlier this month at Talentmaster’s Morning Show Boot Camp 27 in Chicago. Joining Steve Goldstein, Tim Clarke, Jeff Dauler, Harv Blain and John Gehron as a presenter
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40 “Sound Bites” from Conclave 40
- 07/31/2015
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: Uncategorized
These days it’s hard to find time in a schedule or money in a budget for attending industry conventions. That’s unfortunate, because when great minds – passionate about radio – get together, good things happen. If you’re in country radio and have been to CRS, you;ve experienced that first hand (register for CRS 2016 here