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Pair Of Threes: Top Country Songs/Artists/Trends of ’17 and Top 3 Music Recommendations for ’18
- 12/21/2017
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: country music, country radio programming
No CommentsIf you like lists, this is your time of the year. It seems like there’s a “Best of 2017” list for just about everything. For those of you who have enjoyed our annual Top Country Songs / Artists / Trends of the Year posts, we trust you’ll enjoy 2017’s at least as much. Plus, looking
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A&O&B’s Third Annual CMA Infographic
- 11/07/2017
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: CMA Awards, country radio
We started doing our CMA Infographics two years ago and got such positive feedback we decided to make it an annual post. So to celebrate the 51st annual event (Wednesday, November 8), here’s this year’s infographic. Enjoy it and enjoy the show! Check out our last two CMA infographics – 2016 here and 2015 here.
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Build, Find, or Be a Great Manager
- 10/30/2017
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: coaching, management, radio
If you could build the ultimate Operations Manager, Program Director – or even General Manager – from scratch, what qualities would you absolutely want him or her to have to lead your team? Putting your thoughts into a paragraph might look something like this: It will be someone who believes in analytics and does not merely
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The Carpe Diem Power of Imaging
- 10/26/2017
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: imaging, radio programming
From talent content to promotions to advertising, we’re constantly striving to be “in the moment.” But don’t overlook imaging. Imaging is another powerful tool you can use to reflect your audience’s lifestyle and demonstrate that your station is on the same page with them. Fresh, fun, topical imaging on your station stands out like a just-raked
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“Twas Two Months Before Christmas and all Through the Station…”
- 10/23/2017
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: Christmas, country radio, holiday programming
Getting a jump on Christmas and the holidays, A&O&B attended Tuesday’s (10/17/17) Nielsen Audio webinar “The 12 Myths of Holiday Radio Programming” which combined sales, streaming, social and PPM data in a half hour presentation that shed light on the ‘who’ and ‘how’ of Holiday Music consumption. For country, the news varied from good suggestions
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Country Radio’s Summer Love Affair
- 09/28/2017
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: Audience Research, Country ratings
While the calendar officially marked the beginning fall last week, Country radio’s summer love affair is going to linger a bit longer. While summer 2017 wasn’t the best summer the format has had recently – that was 2014 – Country still put together a combination of growth in 6-plus and some stability 25-54. First, Country’s
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Station Websites Abandoned In Favor of Facebook? A Four Station Comparison
- 09/18/2017
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: homepages, radio programming, social media
We invest precious air time directing listeners to our station websites. “Sign up at…” and “Find out more at…” and so on. But a pre-storm look at four South Florida stations’ websites in cities impacted by Irma points to Facebook rather than our websites as the platform that’s getting the most attention. Checking on these
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Get Your Geek On: Three “Doodle Charts” to Power Up Your Next Meeting
- 08/23/2017
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: country radio programming, management, radio programming
Graphs and charts can help you make a point, particularly if you want to show the relationship between things. They can help simplify complex data and ideas, reduce noise, add interest, and can help the receiver focus on your message. There plenty of software tools that produce great visuals: Excel, Numbers, Venngage, Google Sheets, Plot.ly
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NINE STATION AND TALENT TAKE-AWAYS FROM MLB’s 2017 ALL STAR GAME
- 07/17/2017
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: Uncategorized
The Major League Baseball season resumed this weekend after its annual All Star break festivities. (Doesn’t it seem like there’s hasn’t been baseball for two weeks not just two days? Just me? OK) Never being one to miss finding a baseball analogy for any life situation, I was thinking about how the MLB All Star
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Country Radio Hall of Fame 2017 Inductees: Passion, Peers, Perspectives
- 06/23/2017
- Posted by: Mike O'Malley
- Category: country radio
It’s official. The class of 2017 has been inducted into the Country Radio Hall of Fame: Mike Dungan (President’s Award), Martina McBride (Career Achievement Award), Tim Closson (Radio), Joe Wade Formicola (On-Air Personality), Mel Owens (Radio), Jim Mantel (On-Air Personality), Charlie Ochs (Radio), Good Morning Guys (On-Air Personality) and Linda Lee (On-Air Personality). It’s easy
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