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"listenership" Definitions
  1. the audience for a radio program or recording
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Paid listening apps represent a fairly small percentage of podcast listenership, with production platform Anchor estimating that Apple Podcasts and Spotify control more than 70% of listenership.
There's a lot of overlap between that publication and maybe my listenership.
For Google, the app represents an ambitious goal: to double worldwide podcast listenership.
At this point, even the disturbing rise in Kelly's listenership isn't rattling Lifetime.
Not only is there upside in viewership -- listenership and the types of content including podcasts.
As listenership has grown—in large thanks to streaming services—so has the pool of talent.
Facing listenership decline, some colleges have sold off their radio licences or been incorporated into larger networks.
Without knowing the listenership numbers of any of these shows, I went with $20 across the board.
Details: According to Balcomb, The Daily experiences an increase in listenership when there is major, breaking news.
Listenership tends to be highest on Friday afternoons between 3 and 5pm, when hosts focus on local bands.
Part of the playlists' success, you'd imagine, is due to to the more passive listenership that instrumental music enjoys.
But GM spokesperson James Cain says that connected vehicle data can help develop more accurate ways to measure radio listenership.
Ms. Greenwald said that the first-week streaming numbers for the single indicated the listenership was over 50 percent male.
The high listenership, and in turn sponsorship, that The Move is attracting may suggest a rebound in his public image.
He expressed frustration with his listenership, who, he said, had gradually grown immune to any inconvenient fact presented to them.
They have a loyal listenership and a loyal audience and it makes it kind of a driver in the far-right.
Creating a native first-party Android app for podcasts "could as much as double worldwide listenership of podcasts overall," he said.
In 2019, Wondery doubled its revenue and unique global listenership, up to 20 million listeners worldwide per month, the company said.
Eventually heard on more than 180 stations, it became one of the first psychological call-in shows to reach a wide listenership.
For a rather different listenership, there is "Unhappy Hour," presented by the comedian Matt Bellassai, which is devoted to non-stop complaining.
Listenership is also steadily dropping on the music platform, going from 81.5 million monthly active listeners in 2015 to 81.1 million in 2016.
But the company hasn't disclosed subscriber or listenership numbers, and its ranking in the App Store is below 200 in the entertainment category.
"I think that we're in the last decade of influence the way we grew up with radio's influence on music listenership," Miller said.
Stylistically, the venue will focus on presenting music across a wide range of genres, staying true to the expansive character of NYC's listenership.
The podcast quickly rose to the top of Apple's chart, and, despite the Times characterizing the show as "morally suspect," listenership kept increasing.
Why it matters: Data has long suggested podcast listenership would explode as more Americans adopt smart speakers and voice assistants in their homes.
The series set a record for listenership and was a big factor in the explosive growth of the podcast industry in the years since.
Listenership will remain under moderate secular pressure from competitive alternatives, and Fitch anticipates low- to mid-single-digit annual advertising revenue declines (excluding digital).
Its user growth has also slowed, which caused shares to fall last November following the announcement about a downturn in listenership from the prior quarter.
The popularity of country music has seen strong growth among millennials between the ages of 18 and 24, with listenership up 54 percent since 2005.
Notably, this data does not include the surge in Linkin Park listenership following frontman Chester Bennington's suicide in July, indicating the group's sustained popularity throughout the 2010s.
I spoke with some people at NPR and they were saying that, thanks to smart speakers, [they] have seen such growth in listenership and all of it's accretive.
Even still, because podcasts are relatively cheap to make, particularly around explaining news and proceedings, the calculation to keep a show alive might not hinge purely on listenership.
Every 30 minutes, we broadcast a message over Radio Ndeke Luka (which has huge listenership) saying, 'Let the teams work, don't attack their vehicles, don't loot their medical supplies.
That 2016 release and its Warp Records follow-up Spaghetto a few months later not only broke him to a wider listenership but truly let his voice and views emerge.
Before that, she helped launch CBS Radio&aposs audio-on-demand business, growing total podcast listenership from 4 million monthly listens to over 25 million monthly listens within two years.
The station had a 20 percent increase in listenership in January, the first month in which the change was in effect, over December's numbers, said Bulgarian National Radio's chief, Alexander Velev.
The ads we hear when we turn on the radio are the result of a system that assigns listenership to specific radio channels, which experts say can be inaccurate and error-prone.
According to a great Pitchfork piece about Teibel's life as a "new age hustler," a radio station in San Francisco played the first Environments during a two-week strike, apparently improving listenership.
For the (vanishing) listenership that still approaches an album as a whole, the sequence of "Lamp Lit Prose" alternates between bleak observations on the state of the world and happy love songs.
Together with young Bantu reporters, Nyanokonzo and other teenage Batwa reporters now produce eight radio programs a month, drawing a sizable listenership across Mbandaka and in the forested countryside that surrounds the city.
Because if you have an app, you can get all that data on the listeners in the app, but it's probably going to be of a very small fraction of the overall listenership.
One important entry point has been Coca-Cola FM, the soda giant's online radio platform, which is largely unknown to American audiences but popular in Chile, with an estimated daily listenership of 40,000.
Earlier this year, when Apple began releasing more detailed analytics on listenership, many in the industry attributed sky-high engagement rates to the particular, one-way bond that exists between podcast hosts and listeners.
After that, he hopes to build listenership on streaming services (one single, "Through the Blue," already has 5.5 million Spotify streams), the occasional live performance and perhaps some music videos and a compilation album.
"I was absolutely afraid that if I tried to do something in response to [the harassment] that my show would be dropped from the network, effectively killing off most of our listenership," she says.
I did a show — not that it was for no money — but I did a show for 11 years on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation with not the same kind of listenership, but I loved it.
The program, attracting the largest weekend listenership of any in Ireland, served as a guide to the thinking of mainstream politicians, journalists and academics on such issues as economic austerity after the financial crash of 2008.
While it had nowhere near the listenership of shows hosted by conservatives like Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, the Schultz show grew in popularity as he established himself as a sharp critic of President George W. Bush.
Apple still enjoys a strong majority of audience when it comes to overall podcast listenership by all accounts, but Spotify is definitely chipping away by focusing effort and investment both on the product and on the content side.
Increasingly, shows like The Read—as well as 2 Dope Queens and Another Round, both hosted by women of color—are using live performances not only to open up podcast listenership, but to help listeners forge IRL connections.
Praised by critics for the sensitivity, lyricism and tonal control of her playing, she was known for bringing to a wide listenership music by composers including John Cage, Kurt Weill, Carlos Surinach and her fellow Armenian-American Alan Hovhaness.
The hosts of "Fangirls Going Rogue" estimate that their listenership is equally split between men and women, and Amanda Ward of "Rebel Grrrl" said her podcast was particularly popular among fathers looking to connect with their daughters over the series.
This is hosted by Rukmini Callimachi and a colleague of mine on The Daily, Andy Mills, and what happens is we've created a deep listenership, and why would we create a separate feed unrelated to The Daily and hope that people find it?
The company had said previously it was only exploring a sale of its "buy" segment, which provides marketing data on what customers purchase, and not its "watch" segment, which offers viewership and listenership data and analytics across television, radio, online and mobile devices.
When Apple Podcasts announced last year that it would soon be offering podcasters more data on their listenership, some worried it would force a "reckoning"—and possibly an "ad apocalypse," if brands decided that the fledgling new medium wasn't worth their dollars, after all.
In just the last couple months, the Atlanta artist has become one of rap's most buzzed-about new names, an avatar of the genre's contemporary, unmoored sound and visual aesthetic with a dizzyingly fast-growing listenership and a growing roster of clutch industry connections.
Other than the follower bonuses, Himalaya also includes multiple "premium" features, he says, like the ability to offer fans bonus content, early access to content, or ad-free content, which might make the app more appealing to creators who want ways to cater to their listenership.
Before exploring an outright sale, Nielsen had said it was only exploring a sale of its "buy" segment, which provides marketing data on what customers purchase, and not its "watch" segment, which offers viewership and listenership data and analytics across television, radio, online and mobile devices.
" Last week, Woman's Hour, a popular BBC Radio show with a broad listenership, featured a caller in her 80s who -- in the presenter's words -- was "incandescent" with rage at what she felt had been patronizing government advice intended to see her left alone in her house "to die.
Victoria Scalisi's vocals bridged a gap between grindcore, punk, doom and sludge in a way that few singers could hope to do, precisely because she didn't give a thought to bending to the conventions of genre so much as tearing holes in them to bludgeon DAMAD audience and/or general listenership as directly as possible.
This is a position where we could see Spotify growing the overall pie of podcasts listenership, but also developing power that could end up attracting certain podcasters to work away from the Apple system to allow it to force Apple into a certain amount of changes to fundamentally complicate and restructure the way we think about Apple podcasting.
But for as much as critics and conservatives whine about the evils of "cancel culture," rappers who are accused of domestic violence or sex crimes seem insulated from accusations deemed credible enough to prompt criminal or civil cases, largely due to a listenership paradoxically and nihilistically unwilling to reconcile the bad behavior of these artists with their own portrayed image.
Tubridy has become synonymous with declining listenership figures, a 40% collapse of which by 2011 coincided with increased listenership figures for its rival The Ray D'Arcy Show.
AQH Share is a statistic that measures broadcast radio listenership.
Concentration of radio ownership translates to concentration of radio listenership. According to the FMC, the top four firms received 48% of the listeners in 2005. Yet across 155 markets, radio listenership has declined over the past fourteen years that data is available for, a 22% drop since its peak in 1989. It is plausible that the decline in radio listenership is due to consumers finding alternatives more attractive than homogenized radio.
The arrangement killed young listenership. The station’s 4 DJs… “Tom, Dick, Harry and Sam” worked out of the First Presbyterian Church cinderblock building studios at 710 Madison Street. Segal also established KTW-FM at 102.5 in 1964. FM listenership in Seattle was meager at best back then, outdistanced by Marketcasters KIXI-FM.
Savage often closes the show by saying, "With God's will and your listenership, I shall return", or some variation thereof.
Blast 106 is a FM radio station broadcasting to Greater Belfast on 106.4 FM with a core target audience of 18-35 year olds. The station commenced broadcasting in 2009, and the results of a recent listenership survey shows that the station has a weekly audience of approximately 94,500 people on FM with a large online listenership.
In May 2019, Pop Rocket ceased production due to the departures of host Guy Branum and panelist Margaret Wappler, declining listenership, and production costs.
The move from FM104 represented a change in listenership for Hayes and Nugent as 2fm broadcasts nationally whilst FM104 reaches only listeners in Dublin.
1340 AM KICK has also grown in listenership since adopting the Conservative Talk format. In summer 2016, KICK began simulcasting at 92.3 FM, K222CT.
After a time away from number one in 1986, KKRC-FM returned to the top spot in 1987, fueled by increased teenage listenership. In 1989, KKRC-FM tweaked its format to add classic rock, in order to increase older listenership. KKRC-FM and its associated AM, now KKFN, were bought by the XMT Radio Group of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 1990 for $1.5 million.
In addition, much pirate radio activity is broadcast in the FM range, because of the band's greater clarity and listenership, the smaller size and lower cost of equipment.
Paul metropolitan area. The lower power, however, meant the station lost coverage in the nearby smaller markets of Mankato and St. Cloud, where it also had significant listenership.
Due to increased competition from Life 107 and other stations entering the market, and staff turnover, listenership continued to decline and it became apparent a change was required.
The Tubridy Show recorded significant increases in its listenership figures. In May 2009, 18,000 additional listeners were reported, with a total of 333,000 tuning into the show each morning. That was a 6% increase on previous figures, to which the presenter reacted positively. The presenter said that the significant increase in listenership figures had come about at no better time--he had been offered the job of presenting The Late Late Show earlier that week.
In April 2020, as per a survey by AZ Research PPL, commissioned by the Association of Radio Operators for India (AORI) Radio listenership in India touched a peak of 51 million.
A state owned public channel called YLE Puhe.YLE Puhe is broadcast throughout the whole country in Finnish language. The programs include sports and news broadcasts. Its weekly listenership is about 550,000.
With the change in format and full-time broadcasts WHSS saw its listenership grow tremendously. The station was contacted by several nationally known periodicals to report its playlist on a weekly basis.
The compilation was made up of songs voted in by the Bush Radio listenership. It was also featured on the 'Rhyme 'N Reason' compilation released by Ready Rolled Records that same year.
Since September 2013, Harris has hosted the Making Sense podcast (originally titled Waking Up), which has a large listenership. In September 2018 Harris released a meditation app, Waking Up with Sam Harris.
Picart's radio show, The Dr. Caroline (Kay) Picart Show, in nine months of airing, was picked up, in excerpted form, by 59 radio stations, and had an estimated listenership of over two million.
Throughout that time, the show had included a listenership of over 300,000. It ran six days a week, from Monday through Saturday. His talk show aired 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
The show was a hit right in its early days. It struck a chord with the evening listenership that would drive back from work, and as Anuj would say, "recharge" their batteries on their way home. Anuj enjoyed immense popularity through the show. The name stuck with him and he is fondly called RJ "Recharge" Anuj to this day. Anuj shifted to the 5:00–9:00 pm time slot after a year, yet, commanded a dedicated listenership in Hyderabad.
Relevant magazine posts a podcast on iTunes every Friday. Its weekly listenership topped 100,000 in 2012. From May 2018, the Relevant Podcast moved to a twice-weekly schedule, with a new episode every Wednesday & Friday.
Morning Ireland is the top rated radio programme in the Republic of Ireland, with a listenership estimated by the Joint National Listenership Survey to be 467,000. It is considered the most influential news programme on Irish radio. When ratings for the radio shows of prominent RTÉ broadcasters such as Joe Duffy, Pat Kenny and Gerry Ryan were declining in 2005, Morning Ireland remained Ireland's most popular radio programme. It was at one point rivalled by The Full Irish in second place before that show ended.
CT. Since it was the only country music program in the Dallas area, it enjoyed years of great popularity toward the end of the 1950s, but lost listenership in the 1960s, eventually leading to its cancellation.
In 2014 the stations flagship presenter Neil Prendeville departed 96FM for rival station RedFM. Consequently, in August 2015 96FM's listenership figures slid behind those of RedFM for the first time in the history of the stations.
Following the putting in place of a fourth RTÉ national radio transmitter network (used for RTÉ lyric fm), the station expanded to 24 hours from 1 October 2001. Listenership figures are hard to come by, as the station does not make payments to be included covered in the JNLR listenership survey. It is claimed that – as it doesn't carry advertising (the only Irish radio station not to do so) – paying to be included in a survey organised mainly for the benefit of the Irish advertising industry would be a pointless waste of scarce funds. It is generally believed that listenership is high amongst fluent Irish speakers but its appeal among those learning the language is not as high as TG4 because (despite being available nationally) it is widely perceived as being oriented (as its name suggests) towards Gaeltacht residents.
KQLI employed an adult contemporary format at 104.9 for about two years, starting in March 1998. However, the station had minimal listenership, primarily due to its small coverage area and competition from the more powerful KMXG-FM.
In a 2015 listenership surveys done by Gfk between August and September 2015, 988 FM commands a weekly listenership of 1.7 million, which shows expansion by 30%. It is the number one Chinese-language station in the northern region of West Malaysia (Perak, Kedah, Penang and Perlis). 988 FM is currently one of Malaysia's major Chinese language radio stations, and it is one of five Chinese-language radio stations in the country, after Melody FM began broadcasting in August 2012. The station is targeted at urban and suburban listeners.
Tipp FM (Tipperary Local Radio), licensed since 1989 by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, is the local radio station covering County Tipperary. In addition to the official franchise area, the station also enjoys a listenership in neighbouring counties.
In September 2013, Harris began releasing the Waking Up podcast (since re-titled Making Sense). Episodes vary in length but often last over two hours. Releases do not follow a regular schedule. The podcast has a large listenership.
The establishment of several Top-40 stations in the Charlotte market eroded the listenership of WAAK, and by 1990 the station was sold again and moved to a Religious format. Several ownership changes took place over the next decade.
As jazz flourished, American elites who preferred classical music sought to expand the listenership of their favored genre, hoping that jazz would not become mainstream. Controversially, jazz became an influence on composers as diverse as George Gershwin and Herbert Howells.
Pete T. of Rapreviews.com called the song "aimed for a young and even female listenership but doesn't undermine the rest of the album; in fact, it's a rather likable track and a welcome display of versatility from the normally dark narrator".
WEFM (in the Chicago area) and WGFM (in Schenectady, New York) were reported as the first stereo stations. The first commercial FM broadcasting stations were in the United States, but initially they were primarily used to simulcast their AM sister stations, to broadcast lush orchestral music for stores and offices, to broadcast classical music to an upmarket listenership in urban areas, or for educational programming. By the late 1960s, FM had been adopted for broadcast of stereo "A.O.R.—'Album Oriented Rock' Format", but it was not until 1978 that listenership to FM stations exceeded that of AM stations in North America.
For a period of time, WKCQ's listenership in the Flint area declined when WFBE, with which it competes with in Genesee County, Michigan, switched to country, however listenership has rebounded in the Flint area due to the stability of its on-air talent, with Jim Kramer, Kevin Profitt, Greg Cole and Brian Bailey, among others, having been with the station for a decade or more. It is also one of the highest-rated radio stations in the Great Lakes Bay region, where it competes with WCEN-FM. Nearby competition also includes WITL-FM in Lansing in Shiawassee County, Michigan.
The jazz station, more than any other except the college station, is stereotyped as having a small listenership and a somewhat overly highbrow on-air personality, and many are college-run stations. California State University Long Beach sponsors KJAZZ 88.1, which has a fairly significant online listenership as well. Two very well known smooth jazz stations are WNUA in Chicago and 94.7 The Wave in Los Angeles, both of which were introduced in 1987, and still continue to enjoy tremendous success in the format today. Also, WUCF-FM in Orlando has been playing jazz music since 1978.
Tubridy became synonymous with declining listenership figures, a 40% collapse of which by 2011 coincided with increased listenership figures for its rival The Ray D'Arcy Show. In May 2011, the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland upheld a complaint against Tubridy who called a paedophile a "monster" and "creature" and added: "From what I gather these guys cannot be quote-unquote cured ... only one way to deal with them, and that's physiological ... these guys should have bits taken off." Tubridy returned to RTÉ Radio 1 in September 2015 to host The Ryan Tubridy Show, an hour-long weekday morning show.
AQH Share is most often used in conjunction with TSL (Time Spent Listening) to measure listenership in a market. While AQH measures the average number of listeners to the station, TSL tracks the length of time listeners are tuned continuously to the station.
In 2010, the station changed its slogan to simply "102-5" with a broader mix of hip-hop, R&B;, and rhythmic pop music. Entercom bills KSFM as a rhythmic top 40 station due to its multicultural listenership. KSFM broadcasts in HD Radio.
The total listenership for terrestrial radio in the United States as of January 2017 was 256 million,The state of radio today: a focus on African-American & Hispanic audiences . Nielsen Audio (April 2014). Retrieved May 6, 2014. up from 230 million in 2005.
Besides airing classical music and some religious programs on Saturdays, WSMC also airs "Cowboy Jubilee," a nostalgic program of Western music. Its format is decidedly less diverse than a typical public radio station, targeting an older, more conservative listenership than public radio normally attracts.
Sowerbutts and Loads later went on to become household names, appearing every Sunday at 2 p.m. on the BBC Home Service. In 1950, Professor Alan Gemmell joined. The banter between the trio attracted a large following, with the listenership building up to two million.
WCOL-FM is one of two country music outlets in Columbus metro as it faces competition with WCLT-FM for country music listenership in Columbus. However, WCOL-FM is the only country station in Columbus that covers the entire metropolitan area with a full-powered signal.
It has an estimated listenership of over four million people. The show is hosted in the UK by Jamz Supernova – many countries take the English language version of the show and create a new show from the tracks and features, translating the 'links' into local language.
KGOR (99.9 FM) is an American radio station broadcasting a classic hits format. KGOR is licensed to Omaha, Nebraska, United States, and serves the Omaha metropolitan area. With its 115,000-watt signal, the station also has listenership in Lincoln. The station is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc.
"FCC to Appeal Court Functional Music Okay", Billboard. November 24, 1958. p. 13. Retrieved September 22, 2018. WFMF's owners successfully challenged this FCC rule in court, with the station's large listenership among the general public being cited by the United States Court of Appeals in their 1958 ruling.
The time-limit is not applied to several shows like Club Play and Play It Live. According to AGB Nielsen Philippines' Vehicle Coincidental Radio Listenership Survey (December 2014), 99.5 Play FM is the fastest-growing FM radio station in Mega Manila. From nothing to no. 11 in 7 months.
The station broadcasts 24/7 in all nine provinces at 88.4 FM, but greatest penetration is into the Free State (47% of adults) and Gauteng (32% of adults). Spillover listenership in Lesotho. It broadcasts in the Sesotho language. It programs a format of 40% Music and 60% Talk.
The station is licensed by the Broadcasting Authority of Ireland to service both Counties Louth & Meath. The station also has a strong listenership in counties Dublin, Kildare, Cavan, Monaghan and Armagh in Northern Ireland. Its 95.5 MHz transmitter is notable significantly outside its franchise area, in County Dublin.
From March 2016, his breakfast show was moved up to two hours, to 7:00-10:00 (but staying on Sundays). His show reaches over a million listeners, which is a record number for weekend breakfast listenership, alongside the Saturday show at the same slot with Alan Titchmarsh.
The station's signature format for many years was country music; from 1974 to 1995, the station was known as "Country Sunshine Radio", and aired both current and classic country music. WHBF first adopted the country format in 1974, and for years was among the top-rated stations in the Quad Cities market, alongside powerhouses KSTT and KIIK. But by the mid-1980s, amid the explosive growth of FM radio, WHBF's listenership began to wane. WLLR-FM, which began broadcasting its country format at the Quad-Cities market's 101.3 MHz in 1983, began to erode WHBF's listenership, and by the end of the 1980s, WLLR was the overall top-rated overall station in the market.
Radioropa Info broadcast news. Later it mainly rebroadcast programmes supplied by other stations. Since listenership on longwave and satellite radio was too low, Radioropa Info applied for FM frequencies at the end of the 1990s. FM licenses were not granted and Radioropa Info went out of business on 31 December 2000.
The station caters to both NRI and Indian listeners. It is assumed that only 40% of audience belongs to India and rest 60% are Indians living outside India. According to one of the listenership reports released by the station, Radio Maska has a monthly listener-ship growth rate of 60%.
They relaunched on February 14 again and had instant success. The team started out small with 50 connections to the stream and increased their bandwidth as it became regularly maxed out. In just a month, they had tripled their listenership. XROXX LLC released two compilation CDs during the second incarnation.
The station continues to dominate the radio listenership ratings in the city for more than 20 years. With an upgraded signal capacity of 10 kilowatts, the station can be heard in Bukidnon as well as the Caraga provinces of Agusan del Norte, Agusan del Sur, Dinagat Islands, and Surigao del Norte.
In an interview with The Hindu in 2019, Saraf described her interest in sharing Kashmir-inspired folk music with a broader listenership as a responsibility that "falls on our generation" to "stick to our roots." In the interview, she expresses an appreciation for the preservation and popularity of Punjabi music.
The radio station has a 25% listenership in Dublin 15. The Under 14 camogie team won their Division in Feile. They beat Commercials 0-01 to 0-0. The A football team reached the quarter finals of the Junior D Football Championship losing to Ballyboughal 1-10 to 0-8.
Since 2001, the station became the perennial ratings leader until March 1, 2015 when Brigada News FM briefly led the Batangas-Lipa radio market. At the September 2017 Kantar Media ratings sweep, 99.1 Spirit FM regained the leadership with a 47% listenership share and repeated a year later with a 42% audience share.
The estimated current listenership is 440,000 per week. Due to the reaction from subscribers, in the late 1990s 3RRR cancelled sponsorship deals signed with the Ford Motor Company and music venue The Mercury Lounge (due to its location in Melbourne's Crown Casino). No such "corporate" sponsorship of this type has been considered since.
RAM FM was awarded two international prizes for the significant role it played in the region. The owner and chairman of the station in South Africa applauded the management's role in making the station a success which was reflected in the unprecedented increase in its listenership within a short period of time.
There have been suggestions of reintroducing a public broadcasting fee in Liechtenstein, and in the 2014–2017 government, budget outlined such as a proposal. However, this was rejected in 2015. One possible reason is that two-thirds of the listenership of Radio Liechtenstein is Swiss and they wouldn't pay such a fee.
In 2007, WEFUNK shows reach an audience of at least ten thousand regular listeners. Consistent with their roots in community radio, WEFUNK has maintained a DIY, ad-free ethic from the start, a position they've managed to sustain throughout over a decade of growing listenership thanks to hosting contributed by longtime listeners.
It ruled as the only legal broadcaster in Lebanon until 1975 when with the start of the Lebanese Civil War in Lebanon, illegal broadcasters vied for listenership mainly with the establishment of Voice of Lebanon and the rival Voice of the Arab Lebanon and later more than 150 rival AM and FM radio stations, reducing greatly the listenership to Radio Lebanon official radio. With the legalization of a selected number of private radio stations, Radio Lebanon / Radio Liban remains the only official station on behalf of the Lebanese government. Its valuable archive of older programming is also reserved through grants. The radio station also boasted in the 1940s and 1950s, some of the best known iconic broadcasters with a pan-Arab following.
DeBella then closes out his broadcast with "Have a great day, Philadelphia. Don't take any crap from anybody." In "tribute" to DeBella, the staff of WMGK, and at one time, the staff of WMMR when DeBella worked there, refers to the Delaware Valley, the Philadelphia metropolitan area that comprises their listenership, as the "DeBellaware Valley".
CKXX-FM launched by the noted broadcaster Alex J. Walling on August 6, 1984 as CKWK at 1340 kHz.Canadian Communications Foundation. CKXX-FM, Corner Brook, Newcap Broadcasting Ltd. For the first year and a half of CKWK's existence, they tied many things to bring up listenership and broaden the appeal of its fledgling station.
According to its website, the current listenership stands at 628 000 per average day. Most of the target audience of KAYA FM resides in the urban areas. The music format offers a mix including Adult Contemporary music and Rhythm and Blues, Soul, and Contemporary Jazz. It also includes African Indigenous Genre to its sound.
CHRY is supported in part by student levy (contributions via the York University Graduate Students Association and York Federation of Students (YFS)), through occasional grants for which the station is eligible due to its charitable status, by York University through occasional workstudy grants, and by its listenership through pledges. The rest of its funding is from advertising revenue.
This resulted in a big increase in the listenership of the station. The 1450 kHz frequency had been previously used by CHEF, a station in Granby, approximately east of Montreal. That station had stopped operations in 1996Decision CRTC 96-71, Revocation of CHEF Granby, Quebec, CRTC, February 28, 1996 and the frequency was reallocated to CHOU.
Whilst initial listenership was healthy, an overall decline in figures for breakfast shows with Ireland's declining economic fortunes (and, as a result, there been less commuters), the pair did not enjoy the same success as previously. The pair did, however, enjoy a television debut with Colm and Jim- Jim's Home Run which was picked up for international distribution.
In 2002, Fisher acquired broadcaster Tom O'Neill as KAAR FM's morning DJ and Program Director. O'Neill has commanded the KAAR & KMBR air waves for nearly 18 years, and has successfully impacted listenership. In early 2019, KAAR FM ranked #1 in the Nielsen Ratings. In October 2017, "Murphy" was brought on board for a live afternoon shift.
Then in April 2006, WTKL was moved to an Internet webcast and WWL-FM would return to the airwaves on 105.3 MHz simulcasting WWL's signal in an effort to increase listenership within office buildings or other places where AM broadcasting could not penetrate. Shortly after, The Delta a blues radio format would begin to broadcast on 105.3 HD-2.
The show is popular among women between the ages of 25 and 54. As many as eight million people tune in to listen to the program throughout the full week. According to a Bloomberg interview, Delilah has seen her reported audience numbers plummet in cities where Nielsen Audio has adopted the Portable People Meter for tracking listenership.
Dick Tracy, radio columnist for the Sacramento Bee, questioned Jonsson's management of its Sacramento stations, noting that "long-range ineptitude" had caused listenership to its local stations to decline considerably. Jonsson moved its stations to new quarters in the American River Commons office park. In 1985, Jonsson sold its two Sacramento radio stations to Commonwealth Broadcasting for $12 million.
KURB (98.5 FM, "B-98.5") is an adult contemporary radio station in Little Rock, Arkansas. It is owned by Cumulus Media. The station's studios are located in Little Rock off Chenal Parkway, and the transmitter tower is located on Shinall Mountain, near the Chenal Valley neighborhood of Little Rock. KURB is the area's continual top performer for women listenership.
MY – Yong Guong Can Lan is the most popular Chinese radio program in Malaysia. From AC Nielsen's and GSK market research on local listener's behaviour, MY have been achieving the highest listenership since year 1996. Many have credited the program's No.1 rating as due to her creativity, energy, and powerful voice seen throughout her breakfast show.
Vragen van het lid Verbrugh (G.P.V.) over de uitzendingen van Radio Stad-Amsterdam en de VARA op 30 April. House of Representatives, sitting 1979-1980; 6 May 1980 The affair cost the radio station a severe reduction in listenership initially, but in the longer term lost radio audiences were quite soon replaced by a new generation of listeners.
Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria Kaduna, formerly known as Radio Kaduna, was founded in 1962. It now has the largest radio listenership in sub-Saharan Africa. The station broadcasts in Hausa English, Nupe and Kanuri. The Hausa programme can be heard in Kaduna state and worldwide on 6090 kHz shortwave, and the English programme on 4770 kHz.
Although some syndicators of multi-topic, ad-supported talk shows may pay a fee to stations with very large Arbitron-verified listenership, the same syndicator will normally charge a fee to small stations and may charge nothing to stations with moderate listenership. Each arrangement depends on whether the station can deliver enough listeners to allow the syndicator to earn money from ad sales. Syndicated programs normally carry a number of their own advertisements that must be played during commercial breaks, but set aside time for local stations to play their own advertisements. Stations also frequently employ one or more of their own hosts, but at some small stations these hosts may be unpaid volunteers motivated by the chance to promote an agenda, gain personal exposure or get work experience.
Even without any private FM stations, Malappuram finds a place in Top Ten Towns with Highest Radio Listenership in India. There is a multiplex and four standalone cinema halls that screen movies in Malayalam, Tamil, English and Hindi. Rasmi Film Society, one of Kerala's oldest film forums is from Malappuram. The 72nd International film festival of Malappuram was conducted in March 2011.
Seder was relegated to a Sunday show entitled Seder on Sunday. Lionel soon lost two-thirds of Seder's live affiliates and listenership. The final Seder on Sunday was broadcast on June 1, 2008. Seder also occasionally substituted for Randi Rhodes when Rhodes was on Air America, as well as Mike Malloy on The Mike Malloy Show on the Nova M Radio network.
WTSA was sold to the Puritan Radio Group, and later to McGavern/Guild. McGavern changed the middle of the road format to top 40 in the mid 1960s. WTSA was always the most popular station in the region, being a strongly personality directed format. In 1967 WTSA had a staggering Hooper Index listenership of 49.7 market share out of a 13 station measure.
Amid constant media criticism related to declining listenership and viewership figures, he has been receiving support from Chris Evans and has been defended by Vincent Browne. Tubridy has also stood in for Chris Evans on the Radio 2 Breakfast Show, and Simon Mayo on the Radio 2 drivetime slot. In 2015, he has also stood in on Terry Wogan's weekend show on Sunday.
WEOS continues to produce the broadcast of visiting speakers, sporting events, live concerts, and other programming, including speakers at Cornell University. The station's 24/7 non-commercial news and electric music format serves a potential audience of nearly 300,000 people,2000 US Census data Retrieved Feb. 18, 2009. with a large percentage of the listenership in the Ithaca and southern Finger Lakes area.
The broadcast equipment was new and production values were high. The dee-jays were tight, with no dead air or long pauses. These changes got the positive results Blumenthal wanted; despite an increasingly competitive radio market, KCKN's listenership grew steadily. In March 1962, Blumenthal received the construction permit for an FM station at 94.1 MHz, with an effective radiated power of 20,000 watts.
In its broadcast area its listenership outstrips Phidim, rivals like Singalila FM, Radio sum a lung 102.3 MHz and local news advertisements. Radio or Eagle FM has not yet its sister stations. Eagle FM is available online. Its ability of broadcasting is roughly about 3 to 4 miles & also it is able to cover roughly 300000 to 400000 peoples staying around its areas.
A daytime-only station, WJSM was required to sign off at sunset, but WJSM-FM continued to broadcast during the evening hours. The FM band finally became more popular by the early 1980s, and listenership grew. The WJSM studios were first located adjacent to the founders' home in North Woodbury Township, Blair County. The Ferry family owned the stations for 10 years.
In 1998, WOXY began to experiment with webcasts, and listeners tuned in from around the world; the Internet listenership continued to grow. The station continued to broadcast online while building a website with message boards and information to create a community of modern rock. The station was also one of a number of stations offered in the Internet radio section of iTunes.
Through the 2015 season, former McMaster Marauders quarterback Marshall Ferguson offered sideline analysis of all Tiger-Cats games, along with a post-game show on TSN 1150 Hamilton. Ferguson was promoted to lead play-by-play announcer in 2016. Select Tiger-Cats games are simulcast on CKTB in St. Catharines (also owned by Bell Media) to extend the Tiger-Cats radio network listenership towards the Niagara region.
The radio station is available on the DAB+ format (digital radio) as CURTINDG and is also available on the World Wide Web. According to their website, CurtinFM has a weekly cumulative listenership in excess of 239,000 people (all ages 15+) and has more than four thousand subscribing members. CurtinFM also has more than 100 on-air & production volunteers. The main daytime presenters are paid a salary.
Cost per impression, along with pay-per-click (PPC) and cost per order, is used to assess the cost-effectiveness and profitability of online advertising. CPI is the closest online advertising strategy to those offered in other media such as television, radio or print, which sell advertising based on estimated viewership, listenership or readership. CPI provides a comparable measure to contrast internet advertising with other media.
Regional news, weather and sports were provided by the Ohio News Network. WCIT also added Rush Limbaugh to its lineup, boosting the station's listenership and ratings. In 1996, Allen Broadcasting switched the format of sister station WLSR from Adult Contemporary to Urban using the calls WLJM. Then in 1997, WCIT-AM/WLJM-FM were sold to Forever Broadcasting of Pennsylvania who owned WZOQ-FM/WYRX-FM.
The station is currently owned by Wclt Radio and features programming from Fox News Radio and Westwood One. The station is also broadcast on two HD radio channels. WCLT-FM is one of two Country formatted radio outlets in Columbus that currently has competition with WCOL-FM for Country music listenership in the Columbus radio market, the most of any radio station in Ohio.
Georgina Chang is a Singaporean who used to heads Mediacorp's The Celebrity Agency. She has left Mediacorp since then. She was also a former radio personality, television broadcaster, and newspaper columnist. Chang was also the vice-president of Mediacorp's English Programming (Music), Radio, and the creative director of Singapore radio stations Lush 99.5FM (till 31 August 2017 before it ceased operations due to low listenership) and 987FM.
For a year, WKBF simulcasted WHTS-FM's Top 40 format. In September 1996, the station flipped to adult standards/MOR format, although virtually all of its programming was from ABC Radio Networks. However, this format's listenership remained minimal. In February 2004, programmers with the Quad City Radio Group - which by now was operating the station - decided to use the frequency for a country recurrents format.
Ukhozi FM is a South African national radio station & owned by SABC, based in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal that caters to the needs of the Zulu-speaking community.Ukhozi FM Website (About) Founded in 1960, it is the largest radio station in South Africa and Africa (by listenership).SAARF RAMS (Feb 2013) The station has a broadcasting licence from ICASA.ICASA Website (Checked April 2013) Ukhozi means "eagle" in Zulu.
With a listenership of over 7.5 million, Ukhozi FM has been and is more than a radio station; it is a reflector, a self-standing testimony to the many lives that have been and are being lived here. Ukhozi FM is still the home of 7.9 million isiZulu speakers, who tune into the station every day to be informed, educated and entertained in their home language.
As of 2008, WireTap had a weekly listenership of 350,000. In 2009, the show became available as a podcast. On 19 August 2015, Goldstein announced that the show was ending after an 11-year run. CBC has announced that during the summer of 2020, "57 selected episodes from WireTap's catalog" would be released as a podcast, with one episode airing on CBC Radio One each Monday night.
She spent eight years at 5DN and 5RM, holding the title of "social editress" and helping expand the station's female listenership. Brownbill eventually moved to Sydney to work as an executive at 2GB, another Macquarie Network affiliate. In 1949, she moved to England for a year to study at a television school. Upon her return she was heralded by The News as "Australia's first television expert".
KLQ.com was an Internet radio station playing active rock and owned by Citadel Broadcasting. Formerly transmitting on the frequency of 107.3 MHz from near Grand Rapids, Michigan as "WKLQ", it was a web-cast only station from May 28, 2009 through November 1, 2009. Due to low listenership in this presentation, Citadel Broadcasting decided to terminate the webcast and redirect all traffic to sister station WLAV's website.
HPMI launched Salt FM in 2014 and SaltTelevision in 2015. The church congregation and listenership on Salt Radio increased steadily, especially Bugingo's lunchtime prayer services. At one point church members rented out Bat Valley Primary School playground as not everyone could fit in the church. The growing number of HPMI members prompted a search for a bigger piece of land to house the church.
However, with the advent of computers in every dorm, where AM radios became scarcer to find, the station chose to embark on an Internet-only focus, setting up a partnership with live365 beginning in the fourth quarter of 2002. The shift in focus re-energized the station by recruiting more members and boosting listenership both on campus and across the country.Grabenstein, Brother Joseph. La Salle University Archives.
The pace is relaxed. Adams generally exerts subtle but firm control over the conversation's direction. For many years, Adams has referred to his audience as "Gladys", the joke being that only one person is listening and that is her name. With the advent of podcasting and web streaming, Adams has since added "Poddies" to his listenership, and will often talk or refer to his "Gladdies and Poddies".
KFKX went on the air in 1996 on 90.1 MHz as the station of Hastings College. Hastings College announced on May 4, 2016 that it would shut down KFKX on June 30. In its decision, the college cited the station's insufficient listenership and a declining number of jobs in the radio industry. KFKX's studios would continue to be used for podcasts and an Internet radio stream.
The lyrics to one of the early jingles read: T.C. Hooper purchased WQOK from Dick Broadcasting in 1968. For many years, into the early 1980s, WQOK remained one of Greenville's top stations. It was Greenville's "Top 40" station for 25 years and kept the same basic format. However, as FM slowly took over the majority of radio listenership, WQOK went dark in the early 1980s.
The show tried to court controversy and listeners in equal measure. He failed to attract the large listenership predicted, with only a few additional thousand tuning in. Dunphy announced in June 2006 his intention to leave Newstalk 106, citing an inability to sustain the demands of an early morning schedule. After his departure from Newstalk 106, Dunphy confirmed he was suffering from a viral illness.
Microace repair, detailing byte-swap. In 1980 Cary went to Ireland with Robbie Robinson to set up Sunshine Radio. In 1981 he returned to Ireland again to set up Ireland's Radio Nova, which was the most successful commercial Top 40 radio station in Ireland to date in terms of professionalism and listenership. Many of the programming philosophies on Nova were based around Los Angeles station KIIS-FM.
Gagasi FM (previously P4 99.5 FM or P4 Radio Durban) is a radio station broadcasting in Durban and surrounding areas in KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, specialising in R&B;, Afro pop, hip hop, house and kwaito. it had a listenership of approximately 989,000. The station launched on 13 March 2006. It claims to be the only English and Zulu radio station in the country.
They were in great demand at major concerts and events in Colombo. Douglas Meerwald and The Manhattans had a strong fan base in Ceylon. He was also featured on music programs over the airwaves of Radio Ceylon in the late 1950s and 1960s including Talent Corner and Starmaker - two very popular music programs - both radio programs enjoyed a very large listenership on Radio Ceylon.
In 1996, he ventured into radio. Over the years, he has managed to consistently top MFO surveys, peaking at a 14% listenership share. Muhammad has appeared on television, radio and newspaper features across the Caribbean. In 2013 he was listed as one of the Top 10 Personalities of the Year"US-based Caribbean newspaper names Sparrow, Rihanna, Tessane and Bolt among People-of the-Year", Jamaica Observer, 5 January 2014.
Chapman Radio DJs now get to look at the sweaty athletic youth of Chapman University. As of 2013, Chapman Radio is the largest club and second oldest student-run organization on campus, after The Panther newspaper, which became fully independent in 1960. The highest listenership set by any show on Chapman Radio has been 126 listeners by the talk show "KT KulTure" during the Spring Semester of 2017.
On the importance of these broadcasts, one writer noted that "the archbishop's Sunday sermon was the main source in El Salvador about what was happening. It was estimated to have the largest listenership of any programme in the country." According to listener surveys, 73% of the rural population and 47% of the urban listened regularly. Similarly, his diocesan weekly paper Orientación carried lists of cases of torture and repression every week.
"Jim's Dad" is a game in which Nugent's father gives a new cryptic clue each Monday. Listeners are invited to call the show and submit their guesses - three are granted to the listenership per day - and they will be deemed correct or false. If false Nugent's father will express his disapproval. The prize is a minimum of €50, a further sum of that amount is added each day.
For example, Saudi Arabia is home to the group Dark2Men, who competed in the HipHopNa reality show mentioned above. In addition, break dancing "has become a popular pastime in the kingdom". It is difficult to establish numbers for albums sold or listenership by demographic in the Arab world due to the lack of reliable statistics. Furthermore, viewership of satellite TV in the Arab world cannot be accurately quantified.
NPR stations generally subscribe to the Nielsen rating service, but are not included in published ratings and rankings such as Radio & Records. NPR station listenership is measured by Nielsen in both Diary and PPM (people meter) markets. NPR stations are frequently not included in "summary level" diary data used by most advertising agencies for media planning. Data on NPR listening can be accessed using "respondent level" diary data.
In April 2005, WPXZ underwent management changes at the administrative, programming and sales levels. Increased efforts at local news and sports, as well as community-oriented events, resulted in a very successful turnaround for all three stations. The music also shifted from a CHR-based AC to a 1980s oldies based AC, which improved listenership. Yearly, on Groundhog Day, the song "Groundhog Groundhog" by Brave Combo is played.
WDST evolved its format more towards rock music, though free-form elements would remain until the early 1990s. Early hosts include Jeanne Atwood and nighttime DJ The Mysterious Robo. The progressive rock lean of the original format would evolve into an early modern rock format by the mid-1990s. The rise of alternative rock, a genre WDST had to itself, saw the station improve its overall listenership by the early 1990s.
This replaced listenership lost when 95.1 moved their signal closer to the Fargo metro when they flipped to "BOB 95". The KDLB signal competes primarily with KRCQ-FM. On November 4, 2015, it was announced that KBVB would become the official radio station of WE Fest, which is advertised to be the "largest country and camping festival in America". The three-year deal would begin with the 2016 festival.
The value of France Bleu was starting to be more widely recognised. In April 2000, the network achieved its record audience, achieving a 7.5% share and 330,000 new listeners, putting the national listenership at under 4 million. In 2010 at the request of French Prime Minister François Fillon, France Bleu Maine, covering Le Mans and La Sarthe was created on 1 June. Mr Fillon is a native of Le Mans.
Early owners of KLIK broadcast a varied format of news and talk programs including music programs of middle of the road, top 40, adult contemporary and country music as 95 KLIK. For many years, KLIK and KJFF as the two largest regional radio stations (the most powerful AM and FM station in the region) dominated radio listenership in cumulative market share in the Columbia-Jeff City Market of Central Missouri.
They took turns reading off the stories on the same microphone. At the time, they were only able to transmit throughout the community. Two years later, Adam's bedroom was rearranged to accommodate for a bigger setup that included an extra microphone and two extra computers. Spacial Audio became a sponsor of the station as they donated their online streaming service so that the kids could experience a bigger listenership.
In 1996 the SABC carried out a significant restructuring of their services. The main English-language radio service became SAfm. The new service, after some initial faltering, soon developed a respectable listenership and was regarded as a flagship for the new democracy. However, government interference in the state broadcaster in 2003 saw further changes to SAfm which reversed the growth and put it in rapid decline once more.
This policy was adopted to make female listenership more visible to station affiliates, and to encourage female participation overall. This is done to dismantle the myth that talk radio is for a male demographic, and also for the increased ad revenue that comes from female listeners. Between listener phone calls, the hosts fall back to topics they are interested in as well as news events suggested by listeners.
ORF Landesstudio NÖ Radio Niederösterreich is the regional radio for Lower Austria, and is part of the Österreich 2 group. It is broadcast by the ORF, and the programs from Radio Niederösterreich are made in the ORF Niederösterreich Studio. The radio is mostly heard by the 35+ age group and has a traditionally high listenership in Vienna. It mostly plays old hit- songs, as well as some international music.
News & Notes was a National Public Radio program focusing on issues affecting African-Americans and African diaspora communities. The listenership was multiracial and international. The program aired for one hour each weekday and was hosted by Ed Gordon from 2005 to 2006, by Farai Chideya until January 16, 2009, and then by Tony Cox until its final broadcast on March 20, 2009. Chideya is known for her television commentary and books on race.
Hoosier AM/FM acquired WZWZ in February 2009 and has since made a very substantial investment in the on-air sound and format of Z92.5. Early results have put the station near the top in cume listenership in the region. Kokomo's Z92.5 plays a Hot AC music format and features Jessica Green and Ben Rutz in the morning, Erin Fletcher for Middays, Radio Veteran Rob Rupe for afternoons and Delilah at night.
WEAT continued to be a strong performer in the Palm Beach radio market, nearly doubling its nearest competitor in 1989 and was described the next year as the market's "800-pound gorilla". Sunny 104.3 logo used until 2012. 1992 brought the first major format adjustment in station history, becoming soft adult contemporary "Sunny 104.3"; the change was made in order to attract a younger audience than the aging listenership its beautiful music programming attracted.
WRSU has a large listenership for its sports programming, as the WRSU Sports department covers a wide range of teams to train students for a career in broadcast media. The station has been broadcasting Rutgers athletics since 1954. Student broadcasters perform play-by-play coverage of all home and away games for Rutgers football, Rutgers men's basketball, and Rutgers women's basketball. WRSU remains the flagship station for the Rutgers women's basketball program.
Both the Media Development Authority (MDA) and Mediacorp have done a review and mutually agreed to cease transmission of the station on 30 September 2016, given the rapidly changing radio landscape. Mediacorp stated that the review was "driven by new technologies and evolving radio listenership preferences". Staff will be redeployed to other positions thereafter. In 2016, the reused frequency (as well as a newly-vacated 89.3 frequency) were tendered and won by SPH Radio.
Committee members Bill Siksay and Ed Fast were particularly opposed to the programming changes. The committee voted unanimously to hold further hearings specifically on the CBC Radio 2 changes in September 2008. Despite the controversy, the format change was successful for the network, which maintained a consistent overall audience while lowering the average age of its listenership from 65 to 52 in January 2010."Genre change a winning switch for CBC Radio 2".
From day one, BBC CWR faced strong competition from the established commercial radio stations in the area. Mercia Sound had been an outstanding success since its own launch ten years earlier in 1980. Xtra AM, the AM-only sister station from Mercia Sound, also enjoyed high listenership since it split from Mercia and launched in 1989. CWR seemed to find it difficult to compete for the very large audiences built up by Mercia and Xtra.
Soon Warren and Char Bolthouse convinced Booth Broadcasting, the owners of WIBM, to allow them to program the station full-time. Since few people had FM radios in the mid-1960s, they agreed and Family Life Radio began programming the station from the studio in the middle of the Bolthouse basement. Listenership grew as churches in the Jackson area began to encourage their members to purchase an FM radio and tune in to the broadcasts.
In 1971, the station was sold to the Stoner Corporation and became a sister station to KSO 1460 AM (now KXNO). When Stoner took over, KFMG's format was changed to Top 40 music during the day which Sorenson protested. As a result, he left the station in protest during his morning shift. Stoner management soon found out that KFMG had a small but loyal listenership when they expressed displeasure over Sorenson's departure.
"Kicked Off Airwaves, Station Finds New Home on Internet", Los Angeles Times. September 1, 2000. Retrieved May 21, 2019. It was decided that KACD and KBCD would be sold, due to their small listenership, the fact that they counted as two stations, and the fact that they did not cover the entire Los Angeles market. Channel 103.1 would continue to be heard on the internet, on a full-time web stream at channel1031.
On 1 April 1995 1LIVE first aired. 1LIVE was intended to replace WDR1 as a more youth centric radio station, this was because WDR1 had an ever ageing listenership. On 1 September 2000 1LIVE was relaunched. Between 2 pm and 8 pm the programming was not subdivided into different named shows but instead given the name of the day and the current hour, for example: "Eins Live - Donnerstag - Achtzehn" (translated as: "One Live - Thursday - Eighteen").
According to the Spring 2018 Nielsen Audio Quarterly Report, the radio stations with the 10 stations (AM and FM) with the highest listenership in Tri-Cities, Washington included KEGX- FM (classic rock; 5.6% share), KORD-FM (country; 5.6%), KUJ-FM (chart; 5.6%), KIOK-FM (country; 5.2%), KXRX-FM (classic rock; 5.2%), KFLD-AM (news; 4.3%), KEYW-FM (adult contemporary; 3.9%), KOLW-FM (chart; 2.6%), KJOX-AM (sports; 1.7%), KALE-AM (adult contemporary; 1.3%).
After spending most of his career at WWCA, Coopwood was hired away by competitor WLTH in the late 1970s. Coopwood was replaced by a series of soul deejays, none of whom earned the level of listenership Coopwood brought to the station. WWCA was owned by Lake Broadcasting, Inc. President and founder Dee O. Coe established the station in 1949 and operated studios that had housed WIND before that station moved to Chicago.
Under this scheme, RMN provided programming, marketing, technical and management expertise where these small stations would be found wanting. This gave birth to a new name for these stations under the RMN umbrella - Radio Mindanao Network, Inc. and Associates. In 1985, the programming of all RMN FM stations were also re-oriented to cater to a younger pop music audience. This was in line with the network's philosophy of positioning to be No.1 in listenership ratings.
The show is in direct competition with The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show which airs on Today FM, and placed 12th in the same survey. Each Saturday morning a compilation of "best bits" from the previous week was broadcast between 9am and 10am. The Colm & Jim-Jim Breakfast Show was Ireland's third (3rd) most popular podcast in 2007, with 601,203 downloads. In 2008, The Colm & Jim-Jim Breakfast Show's listenership figures were reduced by 5,000 to 197,000.
In the 1940s and 1950s, FM radio stations began to appear all over the US, generally alongside a sister AM station. Most stations held their FM license by simulcasting the programming of the AM sister station. In the 1960s the FCC introduced a rule that prohibited owners of AM and FM stations from simulcasting in an attempt to increase variety of programming and generate FM listenership. The FM audience share at that time was very small.
Unusually for a public radio station, a student-programmed progressive rock show took the late-night timeslot. All rock music was dropped in 1980 owing to low listenership, to "no great student response", according to general manager Don Lanham. Student programming moved to WXJM (88.7 FM) when that station signed on in 1990. On January 14, 2008, WMRA took over the operation of Eastern Mennonite University's WEMC (91.7 FM), which faced declining ratings and little student interest.
As a result, the station continued to run a local breakfast show between 6-10am, but outside of these times the station carried the network feed from Taupo. On 1 December 2001, the Taupo based Community Radio Network was replaced with the Classic Hits network programme from Auckland. Radio Waitomo was subsequently re-branded as Classic Hits Radio Waitomo. In November 2003, due to dwindling listenership and rising costs, The Radio Network decided to close the station.
Gillespie, Robert M., Black Ops, Vietnam: The Operation History of MACVSOG. Naval Institute Press, 2011. p. 58. The branch responsible for the broadcasts, SOG OP-33, later designated OP-39, purported to be broadcasting from within North Vietnam. Instead, the signal came from a 20-kW transmitter in Thu Duc, near Saigon.Gillespie, Robert M., Black Ops, Vietnam: The Operation History of MACVSOG. Naval Institute Press, 2011. p. 73. The VSSPL found two main ways of increasing its listenership.
WHHS, Haverford Senior High School's radio station also started in 1949, located in Havertown, Pennsylvania. As the FM band increased in listenership in the next few decades, the number of HS stations increased with it. By the 1970s, there were over 150 HS stations across the country. In addition to this number, there have always been untold numbers of unlicensed stations using carrier current (popular through the 1970s), extremely low power or "Part 15" stations, and closed circuit broadcasting.
By mid-2011, Quiet Company joined forces via an Artist Development deal with the former music-streaming service Grooveshark. The band's partnership with the service helped to encourage a global audience by increasing exposure on platforms like Facebook and increasing overall listenership on the steaming site, making the band's offerings available to a wider audience. The band spent most of 2011 promoting their new album around Texas, in addition to scoring slots at CMJ and DeLuna Festival.
BBC South West's television service (broadcast on BBC One South West) consists of the flagship regional news service Spotlight, the opt- out service BBC Channel Islands, the topical magazine programme Inside Out and a 20-minute opt-out during Sunday Politics. BBC South West covers Cornwall, Channel Islands, Devon, West Dorset & West Somerset Due to the size of West Dorset, the Listenership of BBC Radio Solent has both covered by BBC South and BBC South West.
Since January 2008, Burrage has produced and presented the Science Fiction Book Review Podcast, in which he reviews "every single science fiction book that I read, as I read it.""My own podcasts 2: The Science Fiction Book Review Podcast", LukeBurrage.com. On the podcast, Luke reports a regular listenership of between 3000–4000 per episode, plus a few hundred downloads of each old episode per month. He has also been a guest participant on the SFFaudio.
The call letters were changed to KLRX shortly after and now broadcasts from Lee's Summit to the Kansas City area. As a result, these and other station purchases, plus the new translators approved during the 2003 filing window, the K-LOVE radio network grew to be the largest broadcaster of contemporary Christian music in the world. By 2010, K-Love had an estimated listenership of 6 million people, from both terrestrial stations and on-line streams.
In 1992, Ramsey started his radio career by co-hosting The Money Game with Roy Matlock of Primerica. Over time, this local show on one radio station in Nashville turned into The Dave Ramsey Show. With a combined listenership of over 14 million weekly, the show is available on more than 575 radio stations and other channels. In 2007, the Fox Business Network launched a television show under the same title, but canceled the show in June 2010.
KWVA requested funding from the ASUO to pay for the one-time installation and equipment expense to make this upgrade and relocation. Funding was approved and installation was successful, upgrading KWVA with modern broadcasting capabilities and vastly increasing its potential listenership to include all of Eugene/Springfield and surrounding areas. On June 20, 2016, KWVA moved from the EMU Suite M-112 (a former women's restroom for an on-air studio) to the renovated EMU Basement Suite 45.
In 2000, a proposal to turn WEXP into a low-power FM station also failed. However, with the advent of computers in every dorm, where AM radios became scarcer to find, the station chose to embark on a primarily internet focus, setting up a partnership with Live365 beginning in 2002, later migrating its web streaming service to Shoutcast. The investment re-energized the station by recruiting more members and broadening listenership on campus and around the world.
He can speak 10 out of the 11 official languages. He is a versatile media practitioner who does a few activities which include amongst others eventing, voice art and professional Programme Directing and debating coaching. In 2009 DJ Brian and Sydney Baloyi on Phaphama as the show's producer, a move that saw the show reaching new heights. Resulting from Phaphama's Success, DJ Brian was moved to the Afternoon Drive and paired with Thembzana Reloaded to boost the listenership.
KZWF began life in February 2006 as KIBB, before changing call letters again to KZLN in March 2006, then finally KZWF in December 2007. As KZWF, it was originally on the air as "The Wolf," along with sister station KZWU. However, owner Connoisseur Media quickly determined that listenership was very poor, and began drawing plans to reach the capital city of Des Moines. KZWF and KZWU were granted construction permits to upgrade, which would allow the stations to be heard in Des Moines.
Televerket conducted a survey in 1989 to gauge listenership, which revealed that only 200 people tuned in regularly. A request for 3 million Swedish krona in additional funding for transmitter maintenance was denied by the Swedish government in 1991, and it was decided shortly thereafter that the station would be shut down on 30 November of that year. Listeners had six months advance notice of the closure. The last broadcast featured a special program ending with the Swedish national anthem.
On February 17, 2018 WTRN switched from its satellite-delivered format to a new local soft AC based format and rebranded as "Easy Favorites 96.9 - 100.7 WTRN". During the day WTRN focuses on at work listenership with the new format. Continuing with WTRN's full service traditions, evenings and weekends on WTRN are often filled with local and regional sports, live broadcasts throughout the community, etc. WTRN also continued its daily local newscast and features ABC news for national news and sports updates.
She then joined comedian Obinna Ike Igwe on the mid-morning show and later presented solo on the same show. In June 2014, Sana released the video for her single, Mfalme wa Mapenzi, sparking controversy due to what some describe as its "raunchy" nature. She released Ankula Huu, the video, in March 2015 and it was well received. In September 2015, she was allegedly declared redundant in spite of the fact that her mid-morning show consistently garnered the station's highest listenership.
P. 22; Canadian Communications Foundation: Radio Station History (CHED-AM) , Accessed August 26, 2015. Canadian Communications Foundation: Radio Station History (CHUM-AM), Accessed August 26, 2015; Bugailiskis, John. 1998. Allan Slaight's Half-Century Rise to the Top of Radio is no Mystery. Broadcaster. October. 57(9):8. CHUM had earlier turned to rock and roll to achieve a larger listenership and it was hoped that importing Slaight from Edmonton would allow CHUM to reach the number one spot on Toronto's radio waves.
RTÉ Lyric FM developed from FM3 Classical Music, which began broadcasting on 6 November 1984. FM3 broadcast classical music on the RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta network at breakfast time, lunchtime and in the evenings. The station was rarely marketed, except via promotions on RTÉ Radio 1, and had low listenership ratings. It was probably best known for occasionally simulcasting the stereo sound track of movies being shown on the RTÉ television channels prior to RTÉ's deployment of NICAM digital stereo.
However, the network's success wasn't to be. A combination of minimal listenership and low advertising lead to a trading halt being placed on parent company WorldAudio, with the announcement that administrators had been appointed to the company a week later. Administrators halted all talk based content, leaving the station to broadcast non-stop music. Radio 2's frequencies were later sold, either to Rete Italia, the start-up Vision Radio Network, or to the similarly ill-fated Goanna country music network.
The stations caters to a mainly young provincial audience with a potential listenership of 150,000. It is aimed at 15- to 34-year-olds and plays mainly popular music. The first song was played by Seamus Barry, and it was Timbaland's "The Way I Are". The station broadcasts to the Munster region on 102-103 and 94.7 MHz FM. It is on air 24/7 playing popular music during most of the day and dance or techno music during the night.
KFUO-FM was shut off on July 6. The new owners began broadcasting Joy FM on July 7 at 7 AM. After the sale, to increase the awareness of the new signal, bumper stickers and billboards of the new "99.1 Joy FM" insignia appeared throughout the St Louis region, prompting tremendous growth of listenership versus the old station. The 94.1 signal was leased out in 2010, but has since resumed broadcasting the same signal feed as 97.7 and 99.1 (HD2) FM.
By the end of the decade about 70% of the population of Wales were able to receive broadcasts from the BBC, which renamed itself the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1927. Though it was not until 1935 that the percentage of Welsh households were paying the licence fee. This was primarily due to many people at the time in Wales listening to a wireless in public halls. Despite the large listenership, very few programmes were aired in the Welsh language during these early years.
This helps to ensure the Fleet disk jockey complete artistic control. The station's listenership crosses through traditional Auckland demographics reaching a diverse audience particularly those involved in the Arts and creative industries. Fleet has held a variety of music and art related events, such as the infamous "Convoy" gigs and Camp Fleet, when on New Years the radio station takes over a classic Kiwi school camp. Fleet members are often exhibiting art about town and sometimes in conjunction with the Pelvic Trust.
A few years earlier, in 1982, KQXR ("Q94 FM"), which was located at 94.1 FM, went on the air. It offered the same Hot/AC format that KKXX had under Buck Owens' ownership. In the summer of 1988, Mondosphere re-tooled the station, calling it "The New Power 105 KKXX FM". It began to reflect its growing Latino listenership, by rotating more dance, R&B;, and freestyle songs into its playlist, making it one of the earliest examples of the Rhythmic CHR format.
The youth also became a large part of the influence and spread of Kuduro. With the increase in popularity of electronic music in periods of relative political tranquility, youth played Kuduro in side-street markets, local parties, and nightclubs. While listenership is primarily Angolan, there are some sonically diaspora communities and niche communities across a wide range of age groups that enjoy, experience, and produce Kuduro. Technology, global citizenships and intercultural communities impact the evolution of the genre as it has endured various "generations" of sound.
In 2014, a report was released stating that BBC 6 Music had overtaken BBC Radio 3 in numbers of listeners per week for the first time. The digital station's weekly average was 1.89m listeners (up 5.5% on 2013) while BBC Radio 3's average weekly listenership was only 1.884m. In 2018, BBC Radio 6 Music is the 10th most popular radio station (as measured by weekly reach) – between Talksport & Absolute Radio – and the 6th most popular (as measured by listener hours) – between BBC 5 Live & Kiss.
It also would appear to result in the crowding of stations into urban centres and the consequent duplication of services in such places, leaving other large populated areas ineffectively served.” -John Aird, Report of the Royal Commission on Radio Broadcasting, 1929 Without regulation, the commissioners feared that American radio stations would take over Canada. At this time, the United States was facing issues at their southern border with several “Border Blaster” signals taking listenership away from domestic stations. The Commission sought to protect Canada from such activity.
The Colm & Jim-Jim Breakfast Show was an Irish breakfast radio show, broadcast weekdays on RTÉ 2fm. The show, hosted by Colm Hayes and Jim-Jim Nugent, began broadcasting in March 2007 when the duo moved from rival station FM104. The Colm & Jim-Jim Breakfast Show was on air from 6am to 9am, Mon-Fri, directly before 2fm's flagship show, The Gerry Ryan Show. It placed sixteenth in a survey of national radio listenership figures taken between June 2007 and June 2008, with 202,000 adult listeners.
By 1987, with tastes in radio listenership changing, WHBF-FM adopted a new Top 40/CHR format, in an attempt to draw a younger audience. The new station – now dubbed WPXR and known as "Power 98.9" - premiered in April 1987 and was an immediate success. The station quickly drew listeners away from the Quad Cities' market's established Top 40 station, KIIK 104, and soon became the area's #1 Top 40 station. Often, "Power 98.9" duked it out with country station WLLR-FM for supremacy in the market.
As of Spring 2013, KGO placed 16th in the market, with approximately half of their listenership when they were number one. KGO logo from 2000 to 2011. The KGO signal also registers with Arbitron as a station listened to in surrounding metropolitan areas. Due to the nature of its signal and antenna placement, KGO broadcasts on a north-to-south axis, keeping itself from interfering with WGY (Schenectady, New York) during the night-time and overnight hours when the station broadcasts at 50,000 watts.
Later popular DJs included Karil Wallace. All of the above had left FM 2000 by 2005. FM 2000's popularity was somewhat low for much of its time on the air; it frequently trailed KREM and LOVE FM in listenership. FM 2000 officially closed shop on November 5, 2006, when it was bought by the People's United Party and turned into a station called Positive Vibes FM, on the same signals as the original FM 2000 and run by PUP public relations veteran Vaughan Gill.
When launched, the station had a monopoly of local radio in the Birmingham area. The station's low audience since the advent of independent local radio has led to reports of threatened closure on various occasions. In the mid-1980s, a new manager, Tony Inchley, brought in extensive format changes with a view to stabilising the audience, although the station remained small in listenership numbers. According to RAJAR, the station has a weekly audience of 225,000 listeners and a 4.2% share as of December 2018.
By the year 2000, the 1990s schedule was looking very stale. In addition, 2FM suffered the high-profile departure of Ian Dempsey to the newly established commercial national radio station Today FM. Both Today FM and the emerging independent local radio sector had eroded 2FM's once unassailable listenership base. Tony Fenton was the most recent departure to Today FM in September 2004. 2FM in turn raided Phantom FM for Cormac Battle, Jenny Huston and Dan Hegarty, while Colm & Jim-Jim were poached from FM104.
In 1942, with Dave Houser, Greb initiated the Bay Area’s first local radio newscast over KROW in Oakland. In 1954, he formed Gordon Greb & Associates, a survey research company that measured listenership for local radio stations. In 1962, he began the Co-Ad Agency with Kenneth Roed to place advertising in college newspapers nationwide. In 1972, Greb created Newsmaker Features that syndicated his "Birthday Quiz" and "These Great People" in such dailies as the San Jose Mercury-News, Seattle Times and San Rafael Daily Independent.
In the mid 70s, programming broadened to include shows aimed at black and minority students and promoting feminism. Waning listenership and increasing maintenance of the campus-only carrier-current system caused the shutdown of AM in 1999. In its place, the online service WMUC Digital was created. In 2012, the University Libraries' establishment of the Digital Conversion and Media Reformatting Center (DCMR) facilitated the process of archiving and digitizing the station schedules, staff lists, policies, forms, flyers, zines, photos, awards, correspondence, reports, newspaper clippings, and manuals.
Outside of student programming hours, the station broadcasts BBC World Service news programming plus Climate One from the Commonwealth Club of California broadcasts on weekend mornings. KSPB has listeners in five counties in California - Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Benito, Santa Clara, San Mateo - with a potential total listenership of more than 1 million. With a fan base spanning from Monterey to Santa Cruz, KSPB is one of the largest high school radio stations in the United States. A live Internet stream is available on the station's website.
The station was initially opened under the name Hit1FM as a hobby radio station in July 2013, by Aaron Gregory. The station was designed to target ages 16–24 living and working in the area, and achieved a listenership of approximately 1000 listeners daily via internet radio. The station spent the first 3 years of its broadcasting life operating from a bedroom in Coventry. The station then opted to rebrand to Fresh in January 2017 where plans to launch on digital radio were made public.
In the mid-1990s Hoy por hoy gained the highest listenership figures of more than three million a day. Today it is the most listened-to radio program in Spain. On 30 August 2005 Gabilondo left the program to take charge of the evening news program of the new television network Cuatro, belonging to the same media group as Cadena SER, the Grupo Prisa. Cadena SER replaced Gabilondo with Carles Francino, who presented and directed Hoy por hoy from 19 September 2005 to June 2012.
Retrieved 22 October 2008. and Alison Curtis, who resigned from the post after being given her own weekday radio show on the station in 2008. Another notable former producer of the show is Paul McLoone, a fellow Today FM radio presenter and current frontman of the Northern Irish pop-punk band, The Undertones and who also helped co-create the highly popular and successful comedy series, Gift Grub alongside Rosenstock. In 2008, The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show's listenership figures were reduced by 4,000 to 234,000.
The IRTC went along with the schedule changes, though in a statement soon after the relaunch said it was not entirely satisfied with the new schedule. However, within three months, the station's listenership had almost doubled. Today FM reshuffled its daytime schedule in 2004, reducing The Ian Dempsey Breakfast Show to add an extra hour to The Ray D'Arcy Show so that it could compete directly with rival, The Gerry Ryan Show. Philip Cawley's afternoon show was reduced and Tony Fenton was given a lunchtime show.
Wangki Yupurnanupurru Radio, usually shortened to Wangki Radio , is a small Aboriginal community radio station based in Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia. Wangki Radio has a daily listenership of around 5000 people in various communities surrounding the Fitzroy Valley. Wangki Radio airs national news from NIRS, regional current affairs programming produced locally or through the PAKAM Network, world news from DW, interviews, road reports, and weather information. Wangki Radio is also home to the Youth Media Hub run in coordination with SYN Media in Melbourne.
"SCR has consistently provided this programming in the past," it told the FCC, "but over a very limited signal area at the outer fringe of the Syracuse area, resulting in greatly hampered listenership and participation." Because the 103.3 FM signal primarily covers the northern suburbs of Onondaga County, WSPJ-LP is rebroadcast for listeners in the City of Syracuse on 93.7 FM from a translator, W229CU, atop the Westcott Community Center in Syracuse. WXXE changed its call sign to WMVQ on June 13, 2016.
De la Morena began as a journalist at Radio Intercontinental, but in 1981 he moved to the sports department of the Cadena SER, where he covered the football world cup, La Liga tournament, the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España. On 3 September 1989 he began his duties at El Larguero. Listenership increased, and by the mid-1990s the program overtook its rival, Supergarcía, of the COPE network. It is now the most popular show during the national sports information hour, every night from midnight to 1:30 a.m.
After the acquisition, the call letters of the AM and FM stations were changed to WXJC and WXJC-FM. The stations offered a combination of Southern gospel music and syndicated Christian teaching programming; as of 2007, the Christian teaching programming continues on WXJC. In May 2006, WXJC-FM changed its call letters to WPHC, changed its format and attempted to launch a country music format. With other country stations such as Birmingham’s WDXB and WZZK and Tuscaloosa’s WTXT and WFFN serving its primary broadcast area, WPHC failed to attract significant listenership.
Power was lowered to 150 kW while the feeders were reconnected to the five ring antennas. The central mast was never rebuilt. When the feeders were rebuilt the power was raised again to 300 kW, but lowered again in the 1970s to 100 kW after the 1973 and 1979 oil crises. This cut listenership as it increased maintenance costs; Televerket made plans to improve Sweden's AM radio network with five new 600 kW mediumwave transmitters and replacing Orlunda with new longwave facilities on the island of Gotland and at Mora.
In September 2005, the station's branding changed from The Southwest's Pirate FM to Cornwall's Pirate FM. Listenership appears to have increased in Cornwall following the move, however it reduced their audience in West Devon (including Plymouth, where Pirate FM had a separate office and studio prior to the rebrand). From "Quarter 4" 2006 Pirate FM's survey area (TSA) was reduced by removing Plymouth & most of West Devon, thus reducing the potential audience significantly but focusing on the core Cornish audience. Pirate FM remains as the number one station by audience reach despite the increased competition.
Only after the June 1967 war, when it was revealed that this station had misinformed the public about what was happening, did it lose some credibility; nevertheless it retained a large listenership. On the Arabian Peninsula, radio was slower to develop. In Saudi Arabia, radio broadcasts started in the Jidda-Mecca area in 1948, but they did not start in the central or eastern provinces until the 1960s. Neighboring Bahrain had radio by 1955, but Qatar, Abu Dhabi, and Oman did not start indigenous radio broadcasting until nearly a quarter century later.
WEMC is a classical music formatted broadcast radio station licensed to Harrisonburg, Virginia, serving Harrisonburg and Rockingham County, Virginia. WEMC is owned by Eastern Mennonite University. Due to declining listenership and low student involvement, James Madison University's WMRA (90.7 FM) took over operation of WEMC on January 14, 2008. WMRA moved its morning, midday, and late-night classical music blocks to WEMC in exchange for NPR's Talk of the Nation and Fresh Air, which had been heard on WEMC as WMRA was unable to fit them into its schedule.
The duo's new slot led to the axing of Orla Rapple's Early Show and replaced Marty in the Morning in the 2fm breakfast slot. Since Ryan Tubridy left The Full Irish and defected to RTÉ Radio 1, the station had struggled to replace him in a difficult period which also saw the short-lived The Rick & Ruth Breakfast Show axed after six months due to declining listenership figures. Prior to this difficulties arose when 2fm's breakfast host, Ian Dempsey moved to Today FM. He now presents a rival breakfast show with the commercial station.
Natasha Sanaipei Tande (born 22 March 1985), professionally known as Sana, is a Kenyan singer, songwriter, actress, karaoke host, radio personality and entertainer. Born and raised in Mombasa and later on in Ngong, she gained media attention after winning the 2004 East Africa Coca-Cola Popstars Talent Search together with two other bandmates. Thereafter she had a short stint at Capital FM. In 2007 she joined Kiss 100 and thereafter Easy FM in 2013 (now known as Nation FM), where her daily mid-morning show garnered the station's highest listenership.
With its increasing listenership, DZLM was opened to commercial advertising. For superior quality, the station migrated from AM to the FM band and became known as DWLM at 105.1 MHz in 1973 as Super Tunog Pinoy 105.1 with an all-OPM format, later reformatted as Power 105BM FM in 1985 with a new wave format and changed its callsign to DWBM. In the early 1990s, MBN underwent several changes in management as well as programming with the launch of 105.1 Crossover in June 1994 with a smooth jazz format.
Many Quebecers have made a name for themselves in the jazz world, such as Oscar Peterson, Oliver Jones, Karen Young, Lorraine Desmarais, Vic Vogel, Michel Donato, and Alain Caron. A number of performers enjoy considerable success at home, both in terms of record sales and listenership, while remaining relatively unknown outside Quebec. In a number of cases, French- speaking Quebec singers are able to export their talent to France and Belgium. Belgian singer Lara Fabian followed the reverse path, moving to Quebec to seek a breakthrough in North America.
Additionally, all radio stations (public and commercial) are treated equally within the PPM data sets making NPR station listenership data much more widely available to the media planning community. NPR's signature morning news program, Morning Edition, is the network's most popular program, drawing 14.63 million listeners a week, with its afternoon newsmagazine, All Things Considered, a close second, with 14.6 million listeners a week according to 2017 Nielsen ratings data.NPR Reaches 99 Million People Monthly, GenXers And Millennials Drive Growth NPR, October 25, 2017. Retrieved October 27, 2017.
YFM started broadcasting in 1995 from the inner-city suburb of Bertrams, Johannesburg, in the face of much skepticism. Within one month of broadcasting 600,000 young South Africans had tuned into YFM. During the mid and late 2000s the number stood at over 1.2 million with more than 500,000 identifying YFM as their favorite radio station.. The numbers have since declined and as of October 2016 the listenership stood at 681, 000. The drop in numbers is linked to mass exodus of talent with DJ Mo Flava being the most recent to leave the station.
While the station is perhaps best known for popularizing the English band Duran Duran in the United States, it also helped to familiarize the American audience with other projects and musicians from Great Britain, such as Elvis Costello and Culture Club. It popularized among residents of the Northeastern U.S. the West Coast punk group Black Flag and the Georgia-based R.E.M., while also providing greater listenership to New York City's Talking Heads. Thurston Moore, a founding member of Sonic Youth, attended WCSU for a quarter during the fall of 1976, though he left afterward.
This includes the first recording of Ladysmith Black Mambazo in 1960 at its Durban studios, promoting the Soul Brothers, Abafana BaseQhudeni, Mahlathini and MaHotela Queens to name a few. The station has supported many music festivals around the country. Ukhozi FM is a station that has promoted traditional (Maskandi) music through its programming that was championed by Welcome Nzimande who later became the Station Manager since his retirement. Through its broadly based programmes, news and current affairs and talk shows the station has grown its listenership to well over 7.5 million listeners.
Increased airtime, along with growing listenership, which included the increasing black labour force as well at the educated elite in urban areas which had access to radio transmission, allowed for greater experimentation with the material being broadcast. The catalogue of isiZulu literature increased as well as the variety of music genres on rotation, which then started to include American Jazz, township jive, traditional music and even gospel music. This expansion of materials allowed radio to cater for the tastes of both the city elite as well as the lesser polished, former 'farm boy' workforce.
However, because the Tribunal was not a court of law, its findings were legally "sterile". Sam Smyth, a radio show host that aired on one of O’Brien's networks, claimed he was fired as a result of his reporting on the Moriarty Tribunal. Today FM responded to the claim, stating that "the decision was made to address a decline in listenership and was part of an initiative to improve programming quality." The Today FM board supported the decision, which was one of several programming changes made by Willy O'Reilly.
CHED (630 AM) is a radio station licensed to Edmonton, Alberta. Owned by Corus Entertainment, it broadcasts a news/talk format, and first signed on in 1954. Its studios are located on 84th Street in Edmonton, while its transmitters are located in Southeast Edmonton. For a significant portion of its history, CHED was Edmonton's (and North America's) most successful Top 40 station having a staggering 40% share of the local listening audience, but with the arrival of FM radio, it lost its listenership and moved to an all-talk format.
Athens International Radio (AIR 104.4 FM) was an Athens radio station aiming at a non-Greek speaking listenership. It broadcast on 104.4 FM in 16 languages (not simultaneously), including English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Arabic, Albanian, Polish, Bulgarian, Romanian, Tagalog, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese and Urdu.Louis T. Economopoulos, Athens-based journalist The station produced more than 15 hours of locally produced programmes daily, consisting of news, music, traffic, weather, chat, comment and entertainment tips. The station broadcast content from the BBC World Service, Radio France Internationale and Deutsche Welle.
It became legal on 22 May 1989. The station peaked its listenership in the mid-1990s when it became the second most listened radio station in Portugal, and soon expanded to several stations in Greater Lisbon, Greater Porto, Coimbra, Vale de Cambra , Santarém, Alentejo and Algarve, forming the Rede Cidade group. Rede Cidade was bought by Media Capital in 1999 and changed its name to Cidade FM in late 2003 before being rebranded as Cidade in 2014. In June 2018 the radio station started to name itself Cidade FM again.
Didam was a leader among both peers and younger ones of his and participated in community development such as road and bridge constructions linking several villages around, and was always a leadsman. He loved to participate also in meetings aimed at developing the Fantswam community. These and more led to his selection amidst many others to be the first Fantswam District Head when the new district was created in 1991. His reign was marked by his listenership quantities where he gave ears to all regardless of ethnic or religious leanings.
During the first 45 minutes, Duguid opens his set followed 15 minutes of "Chance" in which Andy lets unsigned artists show some of their own tunes and their mixing abilities. From 11:00 to 11:30 he plays a selected number of classic anthems from the electronic dance music scene. The last 30 minutes of the program include his closing set which is similar to the opening. The radio show is now syndicated to a number of stations worldwide, including Dance Paradise Brazil, to a listenership of over two million people.
He also re-introduced phone-in talk radio to CFRB, and achieved highest listenership (120 thousand per quarter-hour average) in Toronto in his time period. Bratina was also the play-by-play voice for Hamilton Tiger-Cats. He also filled that role for Toronto Argonauts, combining for a total of 20 seasons, and never missed a broadcast for more than 500 games. He also broadcast McMaster Football and Basketball games, and was commentator on junior hockey broadcasts in Kitchener (CKKW) and Senior A hockey in Guelph (Regals).
Skylab Radio was also added onto the RadioPlayer technology platform, and the Future Radio Norfolk small-scale trial DAB multiplex in Norwich on 26 January 2019, again utilising the DAB+ audio standard. Skylab Radio's owner was cited by Ofcom, crediting small-scale DAB with an overall growth in listeners. Inclusion on the Portsmouth multiplex was a good decision as far as we were concerned, we noticed that listenership and overall interest in Skylab increased. During 2019; Skylab Radio was included in Nation Broadcasting's application to establish a local DAB multiplex in the Channel Islands.
The Leeds programme covers the editorial areas of Radio Leeds and Radio Sheffield. Due to the size of North Yorkshire, the listenership of Radio York is covered by the geographically multitudinous Look North programmes from Leeds and Newcastle. Many homes in southern areas of North Yorkshire such as Selby and York have their aerials directed at Emley Moor, meaning they receive the Leeds edition of Look North. In addition, central and southern parts of the Yorkshire Dales receive the Leeds edition of Look North through various relay transmitters.
The first Masterprize competition reached an estimated global listenership of 100 to 150 million.Moseley, Ray. "Composing Contest Draws International Attention – And A Few Sour Notes", Chicago Tribune, Page 47, Chicago, Illinois, 7 April 1998. Retrieved on 16 December 2019. As one of the finalist pieces and eventually the overall winner, Marine – a travers les arbres benefit from 250 airings across 40 international stations. The first broadcast of Marine – a travers les arbres took place during BBC Radio 3’s Musical Encounters with Mark Rowlinson on Tuesday, 4 November 1997.
It is notable for being one of the few Independent Local Radio stations to still cater for minority tastes such as gospel and jazz. The country music programmes broadcast several times a week are among Downtown's highest listenership ratings. In December 2012 Downtown opened a small studio in Derry ahead of the UK City of Culture Year situated in the Food Quarter within Foyleside Shopping Centre. It remains open in use, mainly at the weekend with presenter-led programming on Saturday afternoon and Sunday covering a range of events in the region.
Family Radio relies solely on listener-supported funding and donations, and is unaffiliated with any religious denomination. Outside programming broadcast over the Family Radio network was limited as Camping considered the organized church apostate, and therefore devoid of God's Spirit and under Satan's control. The listenership of Family Radio understandably declined after the failed 1994 prediction, but before long the organization was growing at a rate much higher than it had previously experienced. In 1958, Camping sold his construction business and, with the funds, purchased KEAR-FM in San Francisco.
Under the leadership of Station Manager Steve Joos, listenership (and advertising revenues) grew to the point that WIZE was the most profitable station in the Great Trails Broadcasting chain. WING in Dayton, WCOL in Columbus and WGTZ, Eaton (formerly WJAI) were also owned by Great Trails. The station was moved from its downtown location on West High Street to a location on Miracle Mile. In order to comply with zoning regulations, the building had to be set back from the road and had to look like a residence.
CJSW finances its capital budget through a week-long funding drive held every October. Raising $13,585 in its first effort in 1985 and approximately $21,000 the following year, the totals brought in from this appeal to the community listenership have steadily increased annually. In March 1987 a second referendum, asking for a $1 per term per student increase in the station's levy, was voted upon by the University's students. In an extremely contentious decision involving partisan behaviour by the vote's chief returning officer, the additional levy was won—by one vote.
As well as being a prominent personality at ITV, Matheson enjoyed strong listenership with CJCA and Bill Jackson until the station folded in 1993. At that time, he moved to 630 CHED for a solo show. He became known for his frequent attempts to retire (at least 3 separate times) as well as the format of his show, which allowed callers to call in for any particular reason. Matheson once said that his was the only show where people would call in about the numbers on the back of a pack of Chiclets.
In March 2012, Shan Wee left 987 in February 2012, a 'ManHunt' was conducted to find a replacement for Rozz's co-host on the morning show. Listeners were invited to audition for the spot from 12 to 16 March 2012 and were told that they stood a chance of getting a spot on 987. However, it turned out that Rozz's new co-host is Bobby Tonelli from neighbour radio station, Class 95FM. It was speculated that the auditions were a waste of time and effort and simply just an advertising strategy to gain more listenership.
UCT Radio is a campus radio station operated by students of the University of Cape Town (UCT) in Cape Town, South Africa. UCT Radio broadcasts on the 104.5 MHz frequency from a 20 watt transmitter located at . According to the University website, the station broadcasts its signal from the main Upper Campus in the Southern Suburbs, and all the way across the Cape Flats towards the Northern Suburbs of the greater Cape Town area. According to the Radio Audience Measurement Survey, UCT Radio had a weekly listenership of 30,000 people.
Island FM is an Independent Local Radio station broadcasting across the Bailiwick of Guernsey on 104.7FM and 93.7FM in Alderney. Launched in 1992, Island FM remains the sole commercial station in the island and continues to be extremely successful with high listenership figures. Island FM, along with Channel 103 in Jersey were merged with the Midlands 103 in Ireland in 2013 as part of an internal split within the Tindle group. The music aired on Island FM consists mainly of popular music, from the 1980s to present day.
The station was signed on by a local church and began broadcasting in the 1920s. Although unpopular, it was bought in 1939 by Sherwood Patterson, who changed the call letters to KSAN. New studios were constructed in the Merchandise Mart near Market Street; a 250-watt transmitter was installed in a tower on top of the building. Listenership dramatically increased with a format of popular music (evolving into rhythm and blues by 1955 or so) and disk jockeys such as Les Malloy, who would purchase the station himself in the early 1960s.
Landsman remained as consultant, and brought in Program Director Andre Carson. Under Carson as PD the station ranked at the top of the market. Marshall retired and put the station in the hands of Steve Paterson as GM. By the late 1990s, long after Landsman and Carson were gone, and Marshall had sold the property, WWDM suffered a minor setback when it was outranked in listenership by new-coming urban stations WLXC (the only other Urban AC) and WHXT. WWDM, at the time, played hip hop and R&B.
Rock, country and soul, mixed with each other and occasionally other styles, spawned a legion of subgenres over the next few decades, ranging from heavy metal to punk and funk. In the 1970s, urban African Americans in New York City began performing spoken lyrics over a beat provided by an emcee; this became known as hip hop music. By the dawn of the 21st century, hip hop had become a part of most recorded American popular music, and by the 2010s had surpassed rock music in overall listenership.
The series was first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 at 10.30pm on Wednesday 8 March 1978. Simon Jones recalled that Adams was initially disappointed at the scheduling as the timeslot was allegedly guaranteed to turn a programme into a "cult" (i.e. a small but dedicated listenership).Simpson, Hitchhiker, 114–115 As it happened, the programme gained listeners through the lack of any competition elsewhere on television or radio, but primarily through word of mouth; several Sunday newspapers included reviews and it was mentioned in Radio 4's Pick of the Week.
Some radio producers have seen their audience numbers plummet in cities where Arbitron adopted the PPM. Arbitron settled with five states that brought discrimination suits and promised more representative sampling. Radio host Delilah blamed the device for "horrendous" damage to her measured audience numbers. One potential culprit raised by critics is the psychoacoustic masking techniques used to embed the signal; Delilah, for example, has suggested that the masking causes the signal to get lost in certain styles of music, thus not getting picked up by the PPM and artificially lowering the radio station's listenership.
As one of the deejays mentored by Frankie Crocker on WBLS, Harper entered radio in 1976. In May 1983, WBLS hired Champaine, an African American woman deejay, and together Harper and Champaine developed a quiet storm late night format patterned after the successful show which had been introduced by WHUR jock Melvin Lindsey in 1976. Others took to the format but WBLS had greater reach and more listenership. The Harper/Champaine quiet storm program became a staple that lasted thru station changeovers and garnered a following in the New York Market.
Motsweding FM is an SABC radio station based in Mahikeng, South Africa, operating mainly in Setswana. Formerly known as Radio Tswana, the country-wide broadcast station evolved from a Bophuthatswana Broadcasting Corporation, which had been operating from Mmabatho in the former Bophuthatswana homeland. Motsweding FM plays a wide variety of music, to help increase listenership throughout South Africas dynamic cultures. At any time, a mixture of hip- hop/pop/soft rock can be mixed with house music followed by Simphiwe Dana or Madonna and ending with Freshlyground or Mo'Molemi.
Best 104 and THR themes were based on a combination of these genres, and the introduction of specialised station for each genre swayed listenership of the two stations away. Best 104 gradually decreased the time slot for English broadcast, from 10 hours a day to two, before finally ceasing the broadcasts in 2001. Following the number of Singaporeans who listens English broadcasts everyday, the English broadcasts revived at the end of 2001 with the launch of a separate broadcast between 5:00 PM to 6:00 PM thus making it one hour. THR briefly went from bilingual to trilingual, introducing Chinese time slots.
La Cadena SER (the SER Network) is Spain's premier radio network in terms of both seniority (it was created in 1924) and audience share (it had a regular listenership in 2018 of 4,139,000). The acronym SER stands for Sociedad Española de Radiodifusión (Spanish Broadcasting Company). Cadena SER's programmes – which encompass news, sport, talk, entertainment and culture – can be received throughout Spain. The network's main studios are located on the Gran Vía in Madrid; in addition, studios across the country contribute local and regional news and information, with local programming in each location amounting to between 2 and 3.5 hours daily.
At the time, the station had low listenership and was in deep financial trouble. Administrators pressed ahead with a search for new management, even as the university Board of Visitors approved turning in the station's license if they did not see a path to viability. Burr Beard was hired as Taylor's replacement in April 2010. Beard proposed sweeping changes to the station’s operation: abandoning the longstanding freeform scheduling policy in favor of a focus on "Americana" music; moving specialty jazz and rock programs to evening and late night, respectively; eliminating classical music altogether; and instituting a small rotation of four songs per hour.
WABC became a mix of all-news and all-Beatles throughout that night with Hoffman anchoring the event. Despite an improvement in listenership,“WABC Makes a Ratings Rebound”, Joel Denver, Radio and Records Magazine, July 31, 1981. the handwriting was on the wall for AM's future, and WABC began the switch to talk in 1981 with the addition of the New York Yankees, which moved Howard to the all-night shift. Howard made an attempt to do an all-night talk show called The Phonebooth which was produced and co-written by his friend Tom Leykis.
Kooba Radio was an independent, non-profit, Internet-based radio station focused on alternative rock, playing unsigned bands and artists with independent record labels. Kooba is PRS (Performing Right Society) registered and played to a listenership in over 20 countries. Created 21 December 2002, Kooba Radio began was principally based in South East London. Starting initially with founders Jon Chappell (Jonny Yeah), Alex Malloy (The Boy Malloy) and She Who Must Not Be Named, the main ethos behind the station was "if you've signed, you've sold out" with a strong impetus towards the promotion of promising bands hitherto ignored by major record labels.
On December 1, 1981, the station switched to a Hot AC format and changed the call letters to WKYA. The radio station employed local radio talent during this period and experienced a great deal of success,1984 Broadcasting Yearbook, page B-102 but head-to-head competition with "Hot AC" giant WSTO (96-STO) based at that time in Owensboro took its toll on the station. So after a slow down in listenership and sales, "KY-102" ceased to exist and it changed its format to Country Music in 1989–90. From that point on, it called itself "K-Country KY-102".
The station's format change ensued significant success, gained more listenership and it became an immediate hit with retro music lovers. Due to this, the innovative format, which holds a special spot in a varied class of radio listeners from young adults to mature listeners, was adopted by other stations in other key cities in the Philippines, such as crosstown 104.3 FM2, 103.5 Retro Cebu in Cebu City and Retro 95.5 in Davao City. On October 20, 2014, the resignation of JJ Sparx left Retro 105.9 without a station manager. Cris Cruise was hired as station consultant.
KZME went on the air in the autumn of 2011 and gathered steadily increasing listenership due to its unique music programming. Most of the programming consisted of local Portland-based and Pacific Northwest original music which found favor with local listeners seeking alternatives to the standard chain-radio fare of most other music-oriented radio stations in the greater Portland area. Occasional volunteer DJs played music live on the air, with daytime gaps and nights consisting of pre- programmed local music. Occasional guest DJs, like Dr. Demento (when he appears in Portland each winter), did live shows on the station also.
Despite the popularity of the voting-based format, Radio Free Hawaii had trouble generating revenue. The station's manager, "Sheriff" Norm Winter, stated in an interview years later that this was due to his refusal to subscribe to the Arbitron ratings system, as the fee to subscribe was $50,000 at the time. Advertisers at the time relied mainly on the Arbitron ratings to buy airtime, and were not impressed by Winters' own in-house research showing that the station was in the top 3 stations in Oahu listenership. As a result, the station went deeper and deeper into debt.
The song developed into Lindsey's theme music which introduced his time slot every night. "The Quiet Storm" was four hours of melodically soulful music that provided an intimate, laid-back mood for late-night listening, and that was the key to its tremendous appeal among adult audiences. The format was an immediate success, becoming so popular that within a few years, virtually every station in the U.S. with a core black, urban listenership adopted a similar format for its graveyard slot. In the San Francisco Bay Area, KBLX-FM expanded the night-time concept into a 24-hour quiet storm format in 1979.
In 1967 TM Productions began as a music production company, producing commercial jingles and broadcast station identifications (IDs). Long conceptualized and co-produced an entirely new approach to station IDs which provided stations a natural flow from commercial breaks to station IDs to music programming, increasing listenership and ratings. Called “Phase 2”, “The Propellants” and “The Winning Score”, these programs were quickly adopted by top stations including KILT Houston, WCFL Chicago and KHJ Los Angeles. He also created IDs that sounded like the hit songs the stations were playing (e.g., “And the Beat Goes On” and “Charisma” for WCFL Chicago and KLIF Dallas).
Pinegrove spent its early years self-releasing its music—including their debut album, Meridian, in 2012—and performing do-it-yourself (DIY) house shows. After signing to independent record label Run for Cover, the group issued an anthology of their early work, titled Everything So Far (2014). Their second LP, Cardinal (2016), represented a breakthrough, amassing a devoted fan listenership and appearing on many music critics' top-ten-year-end lists. After recording their third full-length, Skylight, the band took a year-long hiatus after Hall was accused of "sexual coercion" by a person with whom he had a relationship.
Cardinal, the band's second album, was recorded leisurely in Levine and Hall's parents' basements in Montclair over a period of four years. Upon its February 2016 release, the LP represented a breakthrough: it attracted wide critical acclaim, and the band began to amass a devoted fan listenership, which adopted the nickname "Pinenuts". With a new following and an increased national profile, Pinegrove began to sell out venues across the country. After a tour supporting Into It. Over It., they embarked on their first headlining tour of the U.S. between June and August 2016, supported by Sports, Ratboys, and Half Waif.
Radio Zimbabwe, formerly Radio 2, is a Zimbabwean radio stationEBU Review: Radio and television programmes, administration, law, Volume 31, Administrative Office of the European Broadcasting Union, 1980, page 62 that broadcasts in 2 widely spoken indigenous Zimbabwean languages, Ndebele and Shona and is owned by the country's national broadcaster. It broadcasts talk shows, news, sports updates, cultural shows, health, music chat shows, and politics among other things. It also broadcasts live sports events as well as national events. It was once the largest in Zimbabwe by listenership, and the most accessible in the remote areas of the country.
During the period when Lanigan and Malone hosted mornings, WMJI achieved the highest total weekly listenership of any Cleveland radio station in the decade of the 1990s. It later became the FM flagship for Cleveland Browns broadcasts from 1999 to 2001. The popularity of WMJI in the late 1990s allowed Clear Channel to "franchise" WMJI's format and "Majic" nickname on several FM oldies stations and one AM station, mostly in the Midwest. These stations included, at its height: WYNT in Marion, WIMJ in Findlay, WMJK in Sandusky, WZOM in Defiance (then also branded as "Majic 105.7"), WMKJ in Louisville and WKEQ in Somerset.
One of the most significant programmes in the Asian Network lineup was an ongoing Asian soap opera Silver Street which was first broadcast in 2004. Storylines focused on the lives of a British South Asian community in an English town of unspecified name and location, with themes that generally related to issues that affect the daily lives of British South Asians and their neighbours. Following a cutting of episode lengths to five minutes per day and continued falling listenership, on 16 November 2009 the BBC announced they would be cancelling Silver Street.Image Dissectors The last episode was broadcast in March 2010.
Founded as WVBC, "The Voice of Boston College", the radio station began in 1960 as a carrier-current AM station, broadcasting solely to the university community through the electrical wiring of on-campus buildings and dormitories. After operating in this capacity for 13 years, Boston College applied for and was granted a license to operate WZBC, a 17-watt station which aired a wide range of music, from folk to country to rock. With the advent of WZBC, the radio station expanded its listenership and began serving school's neighboring community. WZBC has seen tremendous growth since its inception in 1974.
The station was granted a power increase in 1975, bringing the station's output to 1,000 watts, allowing for further expansion of its listenership. Another important change took place in 1979, when the station started broadcasting in stereo. The first stereo broadcast was officially marked by a guest appearance by British radio DJ John Peel. Perhaps the most important change in WZBC history occurred shortly after the switch to stereo, when the station narrowed its rock format to the genre known as modern rock, playing new bands which, for the most part, commercial radio would not touch, often because they were unmarketable.
On February 7, 2003, Way of Life Broadcasting received approval from the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to operate a new low-power Christian music format.Broadcasting Decision CRTC 2003, Low-power Christian music FM radio station in Dryden, CRTC, February 7, 2003 The new station would broadcast at 97.3 MHz with 50 watts. The station was launched on March 17, 2003. On February 20, 2013, Way of Life Broadcasting has requested the revocation of its broadcasting licence for CJIV-FM, as of September 1, 2013, as they contended that it does not have the listenership to justify operating the station.
With the increasing electronic dance music scene in the United States, there are several terrestrial radio stations in the country that broadcast a dance-oriented format as their primary programming. Joel Salkowitz, program director of Pulse 87 and Las Vegas station KYLI, has argued that the format is not as widespread in the country because popular EDM songs often cross over into the playlists of contemporary hit radio and rhythmic contemporary stations, presuming that major station owners would not want the listenership of their pop and rhythmic-oriented stations to be cannibalized by an EDM-specific outlet.
Beginning in 1965, the occupant of the frequency was licensed to Russellville, Kentucky, in Logan County. Since 1976, it was originally home to CHR/Top 40 formatted WAKQ, which later became a country music-formatted station, and eventually became WBVR-FM. The station was serving Bowling Green, but also attracted listenership in the Nashville radio market. On September 1, 1994, WBVR moved itself to a frequency of 96.7 MHz, a frequency in which was previously used by the now-defunct WMJM, and now licensed to Auburn, with offices located in Bowling Green along with its sister stations WUHU and WBGN.
On November 30, 2005, KQBZ changed its format from FM Talk to Country music. BJ Shea's show, newly rechristened as "The BJ Shea Morning Experience," would move to KISW on January 3 to fill the timeslot vacated by The Howard Stern Show's move to satellite radio. No details were given as to the status of the Robin & Maynard show, or the ongoing litigation, except that the show would not be picked up by KISW. The show has become one of the few shows across the United States to succeed in maintaining and growing its listenership after the departure of Howard Stern.
As a community radio station, Jozi fm was expected to fail from the on set. Many were skeptical about the lack and insufficiency of reliable equipment and the station battled to secure a loyal listenership. The station was involved in numerous scandals which included fired deejays and numerous changes of station managers. various deejays such as the late Fana Khaba, Penny Lebyane,Penny Lebyane Zanele Magoso-Luhabe and Mapaseka Makoti launched their careers at the station, not to mention Phindi Gule, Patrick Guma, Khanyi Mkhonza, Vusi Langa, Hlengiwe Mabaso, Nyakalo Leine, Christ Matshaba, Owatile Jacobs, Siphiwe Mtshali, Papa Moalusi and Khumbuzile Thabethe.
As a broadcaster Muyiwa has for the last 10 years presented on Premier Radio's flagship programmes Gospel Tonight and Worship Tonight, to an audience of 500,000 listeners. Muyiwa has also, for the last five years, held the position of station director of Premier Gospel, the number-one Gospel music station in the UK, boasting a listenership of 180,000 a month. Muyiwa is the Host of the Turning Point television show, a vibrant programme with a global audience reach of 70 million. Lufthansa Airlines is the home of Sounds Of Africa, a radio show hosted by Muyiwa for the last seven years.
Mediocre listenership figures for Radio South, lead to a relaunch in July 1990 and a name change to 'Hits and Memories 96FM'. The station was now under a 'Classic Hits' format imported from Australia, similar to that of the by then successful 'Classic Hits 98FM' in Dublin. By this stage the original special interest programmes of Radio South were gone (except the 'Oldies and Irish' show on Sundays which, thanks to public support, survived the upheaval). The programme, presented since 1991 by Derry O' Callaghan, is the most listened to show on local radio in Ireland.
Commercial Appeal, November 15, 2009 As with many public radio outlets started during that era, programming in the early years consisted almost entirely of classical music. NPR news broadcasts did not become a significant portion of the daily schedule until well into the 1980s. The station increased its power during that period to a full 100,000 watts, thereby increasing its listenership with a stronger, clearer signal. As the popularity of public radio developed, the MSPCF decided to aggressively construct and acquire transmitters throughout the region, much of which had never been served by public radio before.
WERE continued with the format featuring mostly brokered programs. Here, a radio producer would purchase blocked time from the station, and then produced the program, sold commercial air time, and keep the profit. As a result, the programming was very diverse, but listenership was very sparse, with WERE sometimes not even showing up in the Arbitron ratings. Select programs on WERE during this period ranged from America's Workforce (labor issues in the Cleveland area), to The Gay 90's (homosexual and diversity issues) to Talking Books (interviews with literary figures), to Those Antique Guys (appraisals and commentary on antiques).
The format was launched by Bonneville International, former owners of terrestrial-based all-news station WTOP, as FederalNewsRadio.com—the first Internet-only all news station, and the first Internet station to make the jump to terrestrial radio—on February 22, 2000. For some time before then, WTOP had significant listenership among federal employees, and many of them had emailed the station asking for more coverage tailored to federal employees. The programming concept has changed little to this day, except that the Associated Press' All News Radio service originally filled in during the overnight hours, as a complement to WTOP.
"Smashie and Nicey" are two disc jockeys working at Radio Fab FM, a parody of BBC Radio 1. Each sketch would involve the two talking a stereotypically, obsessively self-regarding disc jockey spiel: reminiscing about their careers, modestly shrugging off their many works of "charidee", and generally being bland and irrelevant, before using a fader (in the form of a giant lever) to play their favourite record "You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet" by Bachman–Turner Overdrive. The characters reference a stereotype of late 80s Radio 1 DJs, in that they are egotistical, bland, and out of touch with their younger listenership.
Online listenership was raised from 100 per week to over 5000 per week, and the station found space in a small store room in the UWESU Media Centre (nickname "The Huboard"). In years to follow, budgets were increased to cover promotion, new equipment and wages for main team members. The studio moved to the gallery position next to the student union's main bar in 2011, before relocating with the rest of the union to the new U block in 2015. In 2016, Hub introduced a fresh new logo (shown) and brand to coincide with the expanding areas that Hub cover, including events and video productions.
WNTN signed on April 1, 1968, broadcasting a "middle of the road" format. After a year of poor ratings, management was convinced, in 1969, to initiate an original format of free-form "Adult Rock" after 2 PM, somewhat similar in style to the radio industry's current adult album alternative format. WNTN's after 2 PM programming featured an eclectic, freeform rock-based format mixed with folk music, progressive rock, soul music, jazz fusion and various other musical genres. With FM radios still a rarity in cars at the time, the station received a boost in listenership and notoriety, primarily due to the Boston area's high concentration of college students and musicians.
On August 14, 1976, 94.5 was renamed WNED-FM, and the following year began offering a classical music format. WNED-FM is the only station exclusively broadcasting classical music 24 hours a day in the Buffalo media market. WNED-FM, along with sister stations WBFO and WNED-TV, began collectively referring to themselves as "Buffalo Toronto Public Media" on February 4, 2020; concurrently, WNED-FM amended its own branding from "Classical WNED 94.5" to "WNED Classical". While the rebranding in part reflected WNED-TV's significant Canadian viewership and financial support, WNED officials told The Buffalo News that the organization's radio stations have minimal listenership in Canada.
The NMPC was started out before the time of martial law when they acquired the facilities of the Voice of America in Malolos, Bulacan in 1965 and steadily brought the old complex up to standards by a steady overhaul, fine-tuning, and outright replacement of outmoded equipment and machines. The NMPC operated the Voice of the Philippines, VOP, on both medium wave-918 kHz and shortwave 9.810 mHz transmissions. In 1975, the NMPC obtained DWIM-FM. With this new station and some provincial stations that came under its wings earlier, the NMPC was a network and effectively covered a wide range of the Philippine listenership.
A budget was to be submitted by each congregation based on the communicant membership of such congregation. This plan later became known as the "Ahlbrand Plan".Personal recollections, My Activity in Synod and District Church Matter (June 24, 1945) By A. H. Ahlbrand Dr. Walter A. Maier, the initial speaker of The Lutheran Hour, and the inspiration behind the radio program, was able to secure funding from the LLL in 1930 for new radio program titled The Lutheran Hour. The Lutheran Hour saw some rocky times during the Great Depression of the 1930s, but persevered to grow listenership and financial support throughout the 20th century.
Fresh 92.7 (formerly Fresh FM) is a not-for-profit, community radio station broadcasting out of Adelaide, South Australia on a frequency of 92.7 MHz. The radio station can also be accessed through iHeartRadio and the Live Player on their website and via the free Fresh 92.7 App, available via the App Store and Google Play. Fresh Broadcasters Incorporated is the name of the incorporated body under which Fresh 92.7 sits and 5FBI is their call sign. Over the last 20 years, Fresh 92.7 has grown to become the most listened to community broadcaster in South Australia, with an established weekly listenership of over 138,000.
In 1981, KROY shifted to adult contemporary, seeking to capture the aging baby boomer audience. The next year, to give the AM station a separate identity, the call letters were changed to KENZ. (Eventually, KROY-FM would become a contemporary hit radio station, following in the mold of its former AM sister.) Dick Tracy, radio columnist for the Sacramento Bee, questioned Jonsson's management of its Sacramento stations, noting that "long-range ineptitude" had caused listenership to 1240 AM—and to 96.9 FM, which was renamed KSAC in 1984—to decline considerably. In 1985, Jonsson sold its two Sacramento radio stations to Commonwealth Broadcasting for $12 million.
In September 2001, Baker joined BBC London 94.9 presenting a Saturday morning show from 8 to 11am. Just 6 months later, in March 2002, and with a new co- presenting team which included Amy Lamé, Mark O'Donnell and David Kuo, he took over the breakfast show from 6 to 9am, with a new theme tune in the form of the Anthony Newley song The Candy Man. Although not drawing a large listenership, Baker won "Sony Radio DJ of the year" for the show. However, the day after winning the award, he announced his intention to leave the show at the end of the month.
The media expressed concern at its relative lack of star names and proliferation of unknowns, though noted the presence of George Hook and Seán Moncrieff. In 2009, Ms Geraghty resigned as CEO and Frank Cronin, Setanta's board representative since 2002, was appointed CEO. Schedule changes included the appointment of former Minister for Agriculture Ivan Yates as breakfast presenter, Damien Kiberd to Lunchtime presenter and the re-engagement of Eamon Dunphy to Sunday Newspaper review programme presenter. This schedule together with the continuity of George Hook, Off the Ball, Sean Moncrieff and Tom Dunne has driven the station to new heights of daily listenership and standing.
In 2001, shortly after the ownership changes, Clear Channel launched WHKF in an attempt to reduce Wink 104's market dominance by stealing the younger portion of WNNK's audience. This ultimately led to Clear Channel's adult-oriented station WRVV taking the overall #1 position in the market; not because of improved ratings at WRVV, but because of decreased listenership at WNNK. Cumulus Media reacted to WHKF by launching their own youth-oriented station, Hot 92, the former WCTX and WNCE. Although WHKF never approached Wink 104 in Arbitron ratings, it did cause Wink 104 to change formats from Hot AC to AC in March 2002.
His advantage in funding proved important in this. While Hoppner relied on television advertising on stations in Omaha, Lincoln, Grand Island, Hastings, Kearney, and North Platte, Nelson bought advertising in all of those markets and also on Sioux City, Iowa television, which reached northeastern Nebraska, and on radio station KRVN in Lexington, Nebraska, with a large listenership in rural central and western Nebraska. To reach more voters who were outside of the areas covered by the eastern and central television stations, he staged a direct-mail campaign, sending up to three letters to registered Democrats in rural areas near the state's northern, southern, and western borders.
Thameside Radio was an unlicensed radio station based in London UK. It launched in the winter of 1977 offering "very slick pop rock with competitions", according to Time Out. According to the Richmond and Twickenham Times, they broadcast from "a certain Notting Hill tower block" – a reference to Trellick Tower. The station received 30-40 letters each week"Sounds", "Touch That Dial", 15 January 1983 and had an estimated listenership of around 20,000. It pioneered new music and is noted by the New Musical Express for giving airplay to "Win a Night Out with a Well-Known Paranoiac" by Barry Andrews which was subsequently picked up by BBC Radio 1.
Jawhar Sircar was a Member of the Governing Councils of Indian Council of World Affairs (ICWA), Consortium for Educational Communication, Film & Television Institute of India and also Trustee/GB Member of IIM (India Institute of Management), Kolkata, Victoria Memorial Museum, Indian Museum, National Museum, National Library, National School of Drama, IGNCA, the Three National Akademies,etc. He has also served on the National Advisory Council of Spic Macay., and was nominated on the National Executive Council of CII. He had also been on the Board of Governors of Media Research Users Council (MRUC), Mumbai, which does research/surveys for readership, viewership and listenership of various media for advertising.
WDAS-FM's rising success paralleled the red-hot popularity of the new R&B; sound developed at Philadelphia International Records. By 1975, as the Philly Sound laid the musical groundwork for disco, the station began to integrate more dance music into the station's playlist to go along with its rising popularity. By the end of the decade, WDAS-FM introduced its listenership to new sounds of Rap with artists such as Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, and Kurtis Blow as well showcasing local talent like Frankie Smith (of "Double Dutch Bus" fame). By 1980, WDAS-FM was the number one music station in Philadelphia.
WaYfm is not to be confused with WAY-FM Network, the nationally syndicated Christian CHR network. Ironically, WaYfm's competitor station in the Grand Rapids market, the commercial WJQK 99.3 FM, previously aired some programming from the national WAY-FM network, notably the afternoon drive show "Total Axxess." WaYfm started in Kalamazoo in 1996 when Cornerstone purchased a construction permit from Grand Valley State University for 88.3 FM. After deciding on the Christian CHR format, the management of the station opted to use CHRSN's programming until local listenership and financial support allowed them to program locally. 88.3 WAYK signed on at 5p.m. on February 3, 1997, to serve Kalamazoo and Battle Creek.
In 1985, translators of KXPR were activated at Davis and South Lake Tahoe; the KXPR studios were relocated in December to a new site on American River Drive. That year, the station ranked eighth out of 257 public radio outlets in listenership. (Note that, like a slew of official sources, this misstates KERS's sign-on as 1970, not 1964.) KXPR operated on reduced power for 30 days during 1986 after flooding put the transmitter building under four feet of water and damaged the equipment; the station temporarily broadcast from the Sacramento Bee tower downtown. In the wake of the flooding, generators were installed at the studios and the transmitter site.
Because of the station's large signal range (formerly branded as "Powerhouse Of The North Coast") which also easily covers the eastern portion of the Cleveland metro, along with all of Erie County, Pennsylvania, it is heavily competitive with Erie's in-city stations, sometimes topping them in Nielsen Media (and in the past, Arbitron) ratings. It also has good listenership across Lake Erie in London, Ontario and into the Youngstown/Warren metro to the south, and some fringe coverage into western New York. The station maintains a weather partnership with Cleveland CBS affiliate WOIO (channel 19), and a branding partnership with the Ashtabula County Medical Center, including studio sponsorship.
In September 2010 WHQR hired Cleve Callison as station manager, who pushed for most of the financial changes at the station. On June 1, 2009, WHQR added the HD2 station, Classical HQR, which simulcast the morning local classical music and added NPR classical stream. Listenership was low as people had to buy new HD radio receivers to tune in. The station also had an extra pledge drive in the summer of 2009 to help pay off their debts. Local actress Mary Carole Erny died in 2010. She spent 15 years volunteering for WHQR. In her will she bequeathed the station $50,000, which WHQR learned about in 2011.
The station began broadcasting in 1997 as 106 CTFM to Canterbury, Whitstable and Herne Bay. It originally broadcast from studios on Lower Bridge Street in Canterbury. Aircheck UK: Kent The KM Group increased their involvement in the station's day-to-day running in October 2000 with a re-launch and programming re-direction. The station became the fastest growing in the UK in terms of listenership with a 48% increase in listening in Q4 RAJAR 2000 (in part due to highly successful sponsorship deal with the University of Kent Cricket Club) and a 500% increase in peak listening, during the Ian St James breakfast show.
The station went on air, originally known as Radio Ireland, on St. Patrick's Day, 17 March 1997. At first, the station was a mixed network, airing much talk programming and various types of music. However, following six months of disastrous ratings, and with a listenership of just 1%, the station was revamped, and on 1 January 1998 became 100-102 Today FM. The station axed almost all of its programming and changed its music policy entirely. Eamon Dunphy's co-host (Anne-Marie Hourihan) was axed, with him being heavily promoted as a solo act and Ian Dempsey and Ray D'Arcy were poached from arch- rivals RTÉ.
Among the programs eliminated from the old WBFO were the last jazz programs originating from a Buffalo area radio station at that time; jazz would eventually return as part of the broad-based standards format on the revived WEBR in 2020. WBFO, along with WNED-FM-TV, began collectively referring to themselves as "Buffalo Toronto Public Media" on February 4, 2020. The rebranding was in part to better identify WBFO and the WNED stations as part of a single organization; it also reflects WNED-TV's significant Canadian viewership and financial support, though WNED officials told The Buffalo News that the organization's radio stations have minimal listenership in Canada.
Grant's last UBATV show and his last WOR show both fell on the date of January 13. On September 13, 2009, Grant returned to WABC for a third stint at the station, doing a weekly Sunday talk show from noon to 2 p.m. Grant's return to AM broadcasting allowed him to continue interacting with his fan base through greater listenership and participation than his previous internet radio show provided. At the close of his first show, he expressly thanked the management of the station for "inviting him back" and said he looked forward to continuing this joint venture every week for the foreseeable future.
This was never hugely popular but gained listenership during 1992 and 1993. The second development was that President Habyarimana announced that he was introducing multi-party politics into the country, following intense pressure from the international community, including his most loyal ally France. Habyarimana had originally promised this in mid-1990, and opposition groups had formed in the months since, including the Republican Democratic Movement (MDR), Social Democratic Party (PSD) and the Liberal Party (PL), but the one- party state law had remained in place. In mid-1991 Habyarimana officially allowed multi-party politics to begin, a change that saw a plethora of new parties come into existence.
Fistaz Mixwell has performed in top nightclubs in London, New York City, Miami, Kuala Lumpur, Hong Kong, Malaysia, South Africa, Africa, France, Ireland, Zurich, Lausanne, Geneva and many more cities across the world. In 2004 Fistaz Mixwell joined South Africa's biggest Urban Radio Station with 5.5 Million listeners as the Music manager. In 2006, Metro FM reached a record listenership figure of 6 million and he was highly credited with the music strategy he applied after joining the station. He is currently the Head of New Media and Technology at METRO FM. Fistaz Mixwell also runs his digital design Company, Creativ FM and is also a partner in TOUCHMIXWELL.
WAMB was the last Nashville radio station to carry Teddy Bart's Roundtable morning discussion program. Bart and co-host Karlen Evins interviewed newsmakers involved in Tennessee politics on the two-hour show, which began originally on WLAC in 1985 and had been heard on several other stations in the 1990s. The non-profit organization founded by Bart and Evins to produce the program discontinued production in the summer of 2005, due to increasing debts and declining listenership. Elsewhere in the state, cable television systems and Martin's (West Tennessee) WLJT, a PBS affiliate, carried a video version of Roundtable, with a camera positioned inside the radio control room.
The 1995 Knight vs. Alabama remedial decree transformed ASU into a comprehensive regional institution paving the way for two new undergraduate programs, four new graduate programs, diversity scholarship funding and endowment, funding to build a state-of-the art health sciences facility, and a facility renewal allocation to refurbish three existing buildings. WVAS-FM was launched on June 15, 1984, beaming 25,000 watts of power from the fifth floor of the Levi Watkins Learning Center for two years before moving to its current location at Thomas Kilby Hall. Today, WVAS has grown to 80,000 watts and has a listenership that spans 18 counties, reaching a total population of more than 651,000.
Heart Wiltshire launched on 12 October 1982 under its original name, Wiltshire Radio (shortened often to WR). Broadcasting from 'The Limekiln' in Wooton Bassett, they capitalised on the fact that BBC Radio 1 had bad reception in North Wiltshire and it was to be nine years before BBC Local Radio launched in the county. The station began a full service commercial radio station on 96.4 and 97.4 MHz FM and 936 and 1161 kHz AM (320 and 258 metres medium wave). Because there was a lack of BBC radio for Wiltshire and therefore no competition, Wiltshire Radio found it relatively easy to build a very loyal listenership and only a few months into broadcasting became very profitable.
The extension of Best 104's broadcast into THR's Klang Valley listener hinterland in 1996 presented a challenge of sorts to THR, with at least one deejay 'leaping' from THR to Best 104. However, it was the start of AMP Radio Network's HITZ FM broadcast in January 1997 that really hurt the popularity of THR, as it did Best 104. Introduction of further English stations by AMP Radio Networks eroded the English listenership of both stations (THR and Best 104), upon which advertising revenues of both were largely dependent. AMP's stations provided the Malaysian radio audience with specialised genre playlist - with each station concentrating on one of the following - top hits, adult contemporary, and easy listening.
In June 2007, Hendrie announced he was returning to the airwaves at Talk Radio Network, starting almost exactly a year from the day of his retirement (June 25) in a later time slot (10 PM-1 AM PT). This show's format was talk radio commentary, covering political issues and news headlines of the day. Hendrie's mock guests returned to the show after a few weeks, but they did not interact with callers. Within a month of the show's relaunch, Hendrie's show had already achieved forty affiliates, although in one notable instance Brian Maloney reported that in Boston, Hendrie affiliate WTKK saw its listenership drop 91% in the overnights after Hendrie started airing in the slot.
Star FM is a privately owned radio station in Kenya and the country's oldest Somali-language broadcaster. Established in 2005, the station boasts of a listenership of millions of people in northern Kenya as well as the capital, Nairobi , and can also be heard across Somalia and southern parts of Ethiopia . With its headquarters in Nairobi, Star FM has transmitters stations in Garissa, Dadaab, Wajir, Madogo in Tana River and Mandera in the country's northeastern regions. In Somalia, Star FM has stations in Mogadishu, Guriceel (89.5FM), Bulla Hawa/Dolow (92.5FM), El wak (89.5FM), Dhobley (89.5FM), Afmadow (89.5FM), Kismayo (89.5FM), Jowhar (97.0FM), Marka (97.0FM), Dhusamareeb (89.5FM), Beledweyne (88.5), Abud Waq (89.5FM), Bosasso (88.5FM) and Galkacyo (88.5FM).
Following the addition of Nugent to The Strawberry Alarm Clock in 2000, the show would prosper with the pair dominating the timeslot in Dublin and winning several awards. In 2007, the pair joined RTÉ 2fm to host the breakfast show reportedly at the behest of Gerry Ryan who was worried with the turbulent breakfast slot which preceded his show and had been marred by poor listenership. It was reported in 2011 that RTÉ paid combined fees of nearly €500,000. Their departure from FM104 was acrimonious with the pair escorted from the station's building and blocked from using the "Alarm Clock" reference in their new show, instead settling for The Colm & Jim-Jim Breakfast Show.
This sound became a trademark in country music from the early to mid 80's in which record sales for the genre soared. However, by the mid to late 80's this sound became increasingly controversial, considered bland and formulaic by music critics and an increasing number of country fans. By the mid to late 1980s, country record sales and country radio listenership were declining as a direct backlash to this style, chronicled by the late New York Times music critic Robert Palmer in a 1985 page one story. By 1986, a new, more elemental style, New Traditionalism, arrived, building on the past popularity of Ricky Skaggs, John Anderson and George Strait.
César Chávez visited KDNA-FM, a public Spanish-language radio station located in the state of Washington's Yakima Valley, an area known mostly for its apple harvest. Impressed by the radio station's operation and control by local farmworkers, he invited the producer who trained the employees and formatted the majority of their shows— Julio Guerrero— to start one on behalf of the UFW. Particularly wowed by KDNA's immigrant-based shows, Chávez marveled at the station's commitment to a decidedly rural and farmworker listenership. According to KDNA station manager Ricardo García, Chávez not only publicly applauded the small Yakima station but his visit inspired the UFW to craft their own community-based radio stations along California's agricultural heartlands.
Effective September 2012, with an expiration of a Corporation for Public Broadcasting grant and limited uptake at public radio stations, The Takeaway was reduced to one hour, feeding at 9am Eastern with an updated hour feeding at 12 noon Eastern for the Pacific Time Zone and midday Eastern markets. WGBH Boston airs the program every weekday at 10am and 2pm Eastern. The difference between the expectations of public radio listeners and the tone of the program initially led to a negative response from some listeners."Axolotl.com" "The Errant Aesthete" However, a 2012 study noted that the program had succeeded in attracting a more diverse audience, with African American listenership exceeding public radio averages by 60%.
Grandy served as president and CEO of Goodwill Industries International from 1995 to 2000. He later became a political commentator for National Public Radio and served as a visiting professor teaching a course on nonprofit organizations at the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland, College Park. From 2003 to 2010, Grandy and radio veteran Andy Parks were the hosts of The Grandy & Andy Morning Show, a conservative radio talk show on 630 WMAL in Washington, D.C. In May 2010, the program was reconfigured and was afterward called The Grandy Group. On March 3, 2011, Grandy resigned from the program allegedly over a dispute about his and his wife's statements about Islamic extremism or low listenership.
The station changed its calls to WDOQ in 1980, but the format remained top 40, the moniker remained Q102, and the ratings remained high. Due to new competition in the Daytona market from WNFI in 1982, Q102 began to more aggressively target the Orlando market as opposed to only Daytona Beach. Although plans for a big 100,000-watt signal that would have extended to St. Augustine, Gainesville and Ocala were scrapped, WDOQ's listenership continued to grow. In 1984, WDOQ was sold and adopted the new calls WCFI, with a satellite-fed adult contemporary format from Transtar (now Dial Global), using the I-4 (a tribute to Miami's WINZ-FM) and later Sunny 102 monikers.
On February 11, 1996, Stretch and Bobbito began airing their show Sundays on Hot 97, the prominent commercial hip hop radio station in New York, while continuing to air late Thursdays on WKCR. The transition to Hot 97 resulted in new FCC restrictions on the hosts and guest lyricists who could no longer use profanity, which altered the show's overall vibe and created a schism in their core listenership. While the show had changed its time slot and demeanor for Hot 97, the artists who appeared on the show continued to be prominent and relevant. Guests on their Hot 97 show included DJ Premier, Black Star, De La Soul, Common, Xzibit, Noreaga, Brand Nubian, and more.
He purchased the stations to further Christian communications in the valley, concurrently, WEXC dropped the oldies format to assume a Christian rock format known as Freq 107 (which was later renamed Indie 107). Before the sale to EMF, WEXC changed formats to the "Today's Hits and Yesterday's Favorites" Hot AC genre as C-107.1, boosting their listenership greatly. During the Goodtime Oldies format, an on-air joke started from Gene Habbyshaw about Bob's voice (Bob Irvine) being the only one in the computer. BOB FM, then later the slogan changed to "we play anything" as Bob came up with a format that started playing a random play, any style and genre of music, that was anything but polka.
Over time the web became a major aspect of WMHB's listenership base, attracting listeners from all over the world as well as an increased number of Colby students. Beginning in the fall of 2007, station staff led a dramatic digital renovation. Previously, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act had prohibited WMHB from broadcasting online unless there was a live DJ in the studio to update playlist information, but the incorporation of a digital music library allowed WMHB's webcast to run twenty-four hours a day when no DJ was in the studio. In March 2007, WMHB was added to the iTunes radio tuner, as well as the radio tuners of Windows Media and TiVo.
Presenters on the station included some who were already established personalities in the East Midlands region. Among them were John Peters (who launched the station as he had done with Trent in 1975). In the late 1980s a new South Asian Indian program brought extra listenership to GEM- AM from the large South Asian Indian community that lived in Derby and Nottingham. A number of the original presenters were later to be heard on a newer oldies and easy listening station broadcasting to the East Midlands, this time on Saga 106.6 FM, which came on air in 2003, and was later rebranded as 106.6 Smooth Radio after it was acquired by GMG Radio.
This replacement happened because of the new Microsoft Zune player's feature: which allows listeners to hear HD stations as well as their MP3s, but, turns out, won't be able to tune into the AM dials. So, in order to make sure KRLD 1080's news feed still got out to the ever-evolving listenership, CBS bumped The Indie-Verse in order to make room. However, The Indie-Verse continued to maintain its online presence.The Indie-Verse is Homeless Now... But Not Going Anywhere, Says Program Director Eric Landrum - The Dallas Observer (released June 9, 2009) Sometime in late 2010, The Indie-Verse returned to the radio airwaves, this time on KJKK 100.3 HD-3.
In November 1993, Buckley announced the sale of KKHI-AM-FM to Group W, the owners of KPIX-TV, for $14.2 million, setting off immediate speculation about a format change. Loyal KKHI listeners decried the sale; later in the year, Saul Levine bought the silent KTID in San Rafael, obtained the KKHI call letters from Group W, and relaunched KKHI on 1510 AM and 100.9 FM. In July 1994, KKHI-AM-FM became KPIX-AM-FM, a news station during the week but airing jazz music on the weekend. It debuted to low listenership. However, a news event would soon emerge to give KPIX an identity and prompt the region to take notice of the new outlet.
Despite the innovative programming produced by WMIH, and the devoted listenership from the Catholic community in Cleveland, Divine Mercy ended up having serious financial trouble in maintaining that original programming, which emphasized local hosts and remote coverage of sports and other events. At the same time, ABC Radio was looking for an outlet for its Radio Disney in the Cleveland market, and it purchased the station. It took over the station on May 1, 1998, and the call sign was changed to WWMK on December 4. On August 13, 2014, Disney put WWMK and 22 other Radio Disney stations up for sale, to focus more on digital distribution of the Radio Disney network.
In Dublin a couple venture on air mainly at the weekends, using low power. Outside Dublin there are a few larger, full- time operators left, but they generally don't tend to last long. Stations which operate intermittently, or regularly change name and/or location tend to survive longer (many have never been raided) although obviously have more difficulty building up a substantial listenership and hence are perceived as being less of a threat to the licensed stations. ComReg's policy has come under criticism from many in the radio industry, who believe that the organisation should focus its resources on stations which cause interference, rather than simply carrying out blanket raids on all stations.
Significant changes came to KCHF-FM when it was sold in 1977 to Sodak Broadcasting, Inc. On December 1, 1977, the new owners blew up a format that was considered a perennial also-ran in the ratings and relaunched KCHF-AM-FM as KLYX-AM-FM, a soft rock station. To the station's surprise, however, ratings dropped; the station blamed its "Stereo 93" moniker being close to a more well-known station, "Stereo 92" KELO-FM, resulting in KELO-FM being attributed listenership to KLYX-FM. The station had adopted the "X93" brand by 1979 and an album-oriented rock format which caused it to surge to fourth place in the Sioux Falls ratings.
WHIN was joined by an FM station in December 1960 when 104.5 came on the air. The FM station has broadcast under many call letters, but probably its most famous days were in the late 1970s and 1980s when it was known as KX (pronounced Kicks) 104, a popular music station that battled with Nashville stations for top listenership. During that time the station was owned by Ron Bledsoe, who for years had commanded CBS Records in Nashville, and was a former employee of the station in his younger years. Currently, the station is Citadel-owned sports radio station WGFX, which targets the Nashville market and is the flagship station for the Tennessee Titans and Tennessee Volunteers.
In November 2018 the band received unexpected media coverage after they were included by Spotify's playlist curators in South America, leading to their single Gwenwyn (English: poison) receiving over 850,000 streams and an international listenership. The attention was a result of the band joining international distributors PYST (funded by the Welsh Government) who provide Welsh musicians with label services, digital distribution, playlist inclusion, physical distribution internationally, as well as bookings for shows and tours with promoters and venues globally. Gwenwyn went on to become the first Welsh language single to receive over one million streams, in December 2018. They were reported in The Guardian and the national front page of BBC News Online.
The end of live programming was marked by a production piece consisting of a portion of the song American City Suite by Terry Cashman and Tommy West interspersed with old WFIL airchecks. The "Epilogue to WFIL" was produced by Charlie Mills, who at the time was working cross-town at WPEN, and had been an avid fan of WFIL during his teen years. In November 1987 FM stations WOGL and WIOQ both adopted oldies formats and quickly won the majority of the potential oldies audience. The Oldies Channel format continued with minimal success and listenership until 1989, when WFIL quietly began simulcasting sister station Easy 101.1 WEAZ (which had a soft adult contemporary format by then).
THR (short for "TIME Highway Radio") is a defunct radio channel in Malaysia. It was the first private commercial radio station in the country, having based in the capital of Kuala Lumpur. The station was originally the initiative and for some time the flagship station of the conglomerate TIME Engineering Sdn Bhd, and as the name suggests the station was targeted at road and highway users with traffic reports and entertainment. It heralded a new era in the Malaysian broadcasting scene as it was the first station to provide an alternative to government-owned Radio Televisyen Malaysia radio stations and it marked the beginning of a stiff competition for the Malaysian English speaking audience, in turn affecting its own listenership as a whole.
Voted "The Classiest Lady in Detroit" by the Detroit Free Press, Geri Brooks had a devoted listenership who warmed to her charming on-air style and delightful English accent. She served additionally as a program host for the Michigan Opera Theatre. Never a ratings powerhouse, WQRS nevertheless attracted a loyal audience of affluent adults, as was often the case with classical radio stations. WQRS was also the flagship station for radio broadcasts of Detroit Symphony Orchestra concerts, and the program schedule included such popular features as the "Sousalarm" (a broadcast of a John Philip Sousa march heard every weekday morning at 7:15) and the Wednesday-night "Film Classics" program hosted by Jack Goggin, which highlighted scores from classic motion pictures.
The beginning of 2005 saw a takeover by a new committee, which would change the face of the station. Jointly led by Oliver Quinlan and Simon Hunt, Sure capitalised on new technology and became a full-time internet station broadcasting across the University of Sheffield Union of Students and the web. This provided a full-time radio service to Sheffield students for the first time in its history. Full-time broadcasting allowed continuing development of the quality of programming on sure, which was acknowledged by a nomination for Oli Q at the Student Radio Awards A revamp of the radio studio increased the quality of Sure's output, increasing listenership and leading to the visit of BBC 6 Music and Phill Jupitus on 7 December 2005.
In each setting 3 months of training and programme making with people of all ages and abilities would take place to really ground the locality of content and ownership. Small towns hosting their own stations included Lydney, Sedbury, Mitcheldean, Cinderford, Newent and Coleford. This community involvement bubbled toward the opportunity to broadcast across the whole area and become the first ever Community radio station to be awarded a full-time licence in the UK following a couple of years on air as an Ofcom pilot experiment which included 12 other community stations. At this point an independent survey commissioned by Ofcom came up with a FOD Radio listenership of almost 10%, with BBC Local radio at around 8%, this was quite an achievement.
Exploring Music Official Site – Bill McGlaughlin The show debuted nationally on October 6, 2003. Exploring Music in essence replaced Karl Haas' long-running show, Adventures in Good Music, since the aging and retired Haas had recorded no new episodes of his show after 2002. When encore broadcasts of Adventures in Good Music ceased entirely on June 29, 2007, Exploring Music gained an even wider national listenership, as it was then scheduled in the retired show's time slot on many radio stations. In 2013, after repeated requests from listeners and following years of negotiation with recorded-music copyright lawyers, Exploring Music reached ground-breaking legal agreements which allow it to stream any of its past shows on demand from its site.
The station enjoys diverse listenership, and its core audience includes upwardly mobile, community-involved adults age 25-55 throughout the greater Athens area. The majority of station sponsors are local independent businesses, and many sponsors opt to dedicate their radio campaign to featuring a local nonprofit of their choice. Since 2016 the station independently donates more than one-third of its annual promotional campaigns to local charities and nonprofits, with most of these organizations benefiting children, animals, and the local education and business communities. The station broadcasts from Downtown Athens at The Fred Building on College Avenue, less than a quarter-mile from the historic University of Georgia Arch, and the station's FM signal covers the Athens Area including most of Oconee, Oglethorpe, and Jackson counties.
The Hot AC Music Format created a listenership of Palestinians, Israelis and Jordanians as well as a substantial number of foreign nationals who worked for Embassies, UN and international organizations and foreign press in the region. 93.6 RAM FM’s format comprised music, Middle East news on the hour, presenters from South Africa, Palestine, England and Australia. Its intent was to create a bridge between Palestinians and Israelis, providing a platform for both sides to discuss and listen to the other’s narrative and thereby create meaningful understanding. With Studios in Ramallah and Jerusalem, connected by microwave link, it employed state-of-the- art technology which is used by modern media today. Middle East Eyewitness News was ‘in touch, in tune and independent’.
In 1969–70, the partners Meister and Bollier established a commercial offshore radio station, Radio Nordsee International (RNI), in international waters aboard the radio ship Mebo II, anchored off Scheveningen,The Netherlands. Transmissions to Northwest Europe began in January, 1970. By 1971, the station had established a large listenership, especially in the Netherlands, its programs broadcast simultaneously on mediumwave (105 kW), shortwave (2 X 10 kW), and FM (1 kW). After transmissions ceased in 1974, and a lengthy legal battle with the Dutch government over its impounding of the vessel, in 1977 the Mebo II sailed for Tripoli, Libya, where it was initially leased to the Libyan government for use as a radio station; then later sunk during military target practice in the Gulf of Sidra.
In June 2012, WRDL began broadcasting mainstream contemporary hit radio music in an effort to increase consistency in listenership and increase the presence of the station at on-campus venues such as the recreational center, athletic event, and dining areas. The station's new positioning statement, "More Music, More You," was designed to let listeners know that WRDL would provide them with both more music and more local content than the competition. WRDL offers local news weekday mornings and evenings and also an entertainment and local information-based morning show, "The Early Bird's Word," which airs 7:00 am – 9:00 am on weekdays while school is in session. The show features regular appearances from university and city authorities, including Ashland Mayor Matt Miller.
Its original management team included Aevann Upton (CEO), Nessa McGann (Programme Director), and Julie White (Sales Manager). The station started with a total of 47 staff, including an on-air line-up of Seamus Barry, Dan Mooney, Jacqui Leahy, Muireann O'Connell (The 6 O Clock Show), Ed Roche (who now presents Fully Charged on the Station), Ciara Revins (Red Fm), Chloe Liddy Judge, Michelle Mc Mahon, Conor Quaid, John Hayes (now of Dubai 92), Aiden McAuliffe and Caroline Smith. The Programme Director, Nessa McGann joined SPIN from Wired FM, a student station in Limerick. Joint National Listenership Research listener figures as of 17/02/2011 showed SPIN South West had a weekly audience of 143,000, an increase of 4000 since the last figures.
A full account of Hill's wide-ranging career can be found in his autobiography Over the Airwaves (2005), which includes much detail about Children's Hour. He was later asked by the BBC to write and produce radio programmes in tribute to three Children's Hour regulars, Derek McCulloch (Uncle Mac), Wilfred Pickles and Violet Carson. The programme's closure was decided in 1964 by Frank Gillard following an enormous decline in listenership—by the end of 1963, the number of listeners had fallen to 25,000. Gillard said that most of them were "middle-aged and elderly ladies who liked to be reminded of the golden days of their youth", and that young listeners had instead turned to watching television, listening to the BBC Light Programme or to pirate radio.
On the May 10, 1951 Suspense, Lewis reversed the roles with "Death on My Hands": A bandleader (Harris) is horrified when an autograph-seeking fan accidentally shoots herself and dies in his hotel room, and a vocalist (Faye) tries to help him as the townfolk call for vigilante justice against him. With the rise of television and the departures of Lewis and Autolite, subsequent producers (Antony Ellis, William N. Robson and others) struggled to maintain the series despite shrinking budgets, the availability of fewer name actors, and listenership decline. To save money, the program frequently used scripts first broadcast by another noteworthy CBS anthology, Escape. In addition to these tales of exotic adventure, Suspense expanded its repertoire to include more science fiction and supernatural content.
After only five months on air the radio show gained an impressive listenership and has the third highest audience figures on 2FM with an impressive 143,000 listeners, beating one of the stations flagship show Breakfast with Hector and beaten only by Ryan Tubridy with 216,000 and Colm Hayes with 161,000 according to the JNLR figures released on 17 February 2011.RTÉ Top 5 Radio programmes February 2011 In the JNLR figures released on 5 May 2011 the show gained a further 5000 listeners and became the stations second most listened to radio show behind Ryan Tubridy with 148,000 radio fans tuning in every Saturday morning.RTÉ Top 5 Radio programmes May 2011 This is unprecedented success for a weekend radio show on 2FM.
However, technical glitches were frequent and listenership dropped. For a brief period starting in late 1974, the station attempted a fully automated beautiful music format for a younger demographic, called "The Love of New York". In 1975 NBC Radio launched the "NBC News and Information Service" (NNIS), a network service providing up to 50 minutes an hour of news programming to local stations that wanted to adopt an all-news format without the high cost of producing large quantities of local news content. WNBC-FM's small audience was deemed expendable to allow NNIS to have a New York outlet, and on June 18, 1975 the station became WNWS-FM, branding itself "NewsCenter 97", an allusion to WNBC- TV's "NewsCenter 4" local newscasts.
In 1998, the station manager Brad Crowe took a decisive step in building up the radio station's listenership and purchased a 1-watt transmitter which was capable of broadcasting to the campus. From 1998-2001, former Office Manager and transplant from CKLU in Sudbury, Ontario, Ryan LaFlamme continued Brad's work as Station Manager. Accomplishments included increasing volunteer number to over 85 undergraduate students and creating the first complete programming schedule in many years, obtaining an LPFM license, rebuilding the secondary production and interview room, finalizing the re-cataloging of the music library, and restoring the 'vinyl vault' from storage for run-down equipment. Ryan was responsible for training several of the future station executive and Station Managers, including Seth Wotten.
WCBS is the dominant Class A signal on 880 AM. The station was formerly known as WKDA. Under this name and its former 1240 kHz frequency it broadcast from the Stahlman Building in downtown Nashville for many years, becoming the first Nashville radio station, in the early 1960s, to convert to an all-rock music format. WKDA attempted to make its disc jockeys into major local celebrities, as had become the rage in many large U.S. cities. WKDA's listenership went into decline in the late 1960s, under withering competition from WMAK, WLAC, and especially the switch of music listeners in general, and, at the time, rock listeners in particular, to FM. By 1970, WKDA had changed to a country music format.
Listenership eroded slightly in the late 1980s with the success of former Top-40 giant CKLW-AM's "Music of Your Life" format but Joy 97 remained a consistent top performer in the ratings. However, most of the station's listeners were older than the demographics usually courted by advertisers. Thus, in early 1991, the station made some adjustments to its format, dropping the syndication and going to a staff of live announcers and at the same time adding more soft pop and mellow rock vocals to the mix while replacing many of the traditional orchestra-based instrumentals with new-age and smooth jazz cuts. The "freshening up" of the format, however, did not reverse the station's fortunes, and ratings steadily declined.
Despite these changes, WRMR still experienced a loss in listenership and advertising revenue so significant that Radio Seaway opted to sell the station back to Salem Communications on July 6, 2004 for $10 million. The permanent sign-off of WRMR was made more poignant just days later after the death of signature WRMR personality Bill Randle, on July 11, 2004. The final day of programming on WRMR was punctuated with the final installment of a long-running music program hosted by Randle that had been pre-recorded just days earlier. Carl Reese hosted the final air shift from 7 pm until sign-off at midnight; fittingly, he was also one of the first voices heard on WRMR (850 AM) when it signed on back in June 1985.
Ratings for the station during this time were extremely poor. By the end of 1993, WNMX had changed to urban Contemporary and had boosted the signal to its present 25,000 watts, with little change in audience or advertising revenue. In 1994, WNMX's format was changed again to country (with a musical lean toward classic country) under the handle "Big Bubba 106.3". For a time, the station actually did very well, but listenership started to drop as the audience started to drift back to the area's other country stations. In early 1995, WNMX was issued a cease and desist letter from WBUB, another country station in Charleston that was using the "Bubba" moniker and had trademarked the name in South Carolina.
In July 2007, KRSX-FM was one of 16 stations in California and Arizona which Clear Channel sold to El Dorado Broadcasters for $40 million. On December 7, 2009, El Dorado took KRSX-FM silent in anticipation of a relocation to Twentynine Palms, California, citing a lack of listenership and revenue in the Barstow area. In June 2010, the company sold the station to S & H Broadcasting for $100,000. KRSX-FM returned to the air November 14, 2011, broadcasting to the Twentynine Palms area with a hybrid talk/sports format as "Talk 105.3". On January 1, 2014, KRSX-FM adopted the KQCM call letters and contemporary hit radio format of a station on 95.5 FM in Twentynine Palms, California (now KCLZ).
In 1983, the station flipped to soft rock as WWCL, taking the moniker "Classy 101", advertising itself heavily with a series of TV commercials inviting potential listeners to call or write with feedback to improve the station, "because you're building Classy 101!" The attempt failed to make any kind of ratings success, largely due to its signal that limited it to listenership in Pittsburgh's North Hills and eastern suburbs, with listeners south of the city of Pittsburgh unable to hear it. The station also faced heavy competition from established soft rocker 3WS and from longtime easy-listening WPNT, which had operated for years as KDKA-FM. The latter station also switched to soft rock that same year and embarked on a heavy advertising campaign that proved to be highly successful.
The station was intended to be a niche format to eat away at the listenership of Cumulus's WWCK-FM and WDZZ and protect the ratings of its Adult Contemporary sister-station WCRZ. In its first year, the new Club 93-7 playlist was heavy on Top 40 hits, especially upbeat party-type songs not limited to dance music, House, Urban, other crossover titles and artists. The debut was better than Regent expected, so the station began to broaden its audience by playing less dance- and house-influenced music and more Urban Pop titles such as Destiny's Child, Usher Raymond and Eminem. The success of WRCL also served as the blueprint for future Regent Rhythmic Top 40 formats. The company has 6 other Rhythmic Top 40 and Mainstream Top 40 stations.
The station has been able to renew its licence under the Electronic Communications Act awarded in 2014. The station broadcast within a 50 km radius from 06h00-00h00 daily and has a listenership of 50 000. We target mainly the youth aged between 15 and 35 and broadcasts in six languages that are English, Tswana, Pedi, Zulu, Venda and Tsonga as per regulatory framework. TUT FM 96.2 broadcasts on 96.2 MHz FM Stereo from studios in TUT- SOSHANGUVE CAMPUS most of Pretoria areas within the 50 km radius including Soshanguve, Ga-Rankuwa, Mabopane, Winterveldt, Pretoria suburbs and CBD, Centurion, Hatfield, Brooklyn, Menlyn, Orchards, Sunnyside, Arcadia, Theresa Park, Akasia, Wonderpark, Wonderboom, Montana, Kempton Park, Lynwood, Silverton, Zambesi, Sinoville, Gezina, Laudium, Eastlyn, Madidi, Klipgat, Mmakaunyane, Letlhabile, Mothotlung Cullinan, Tladistad, Jericho, Makapanstad, Attridgeville, Kgabalatsane, Hammanskraal, and Mamelodi.
The WKDA callsign was used in Nashville for a long period on the AM frequency of 1240 kHz. The old WKDA was the first Nashville station to adopt an all-rock and roll format when that form of music first became popular; in the 1960s its on-air staff of disc jockeys were promoted as the "WKDA Good Guys" and it had an on-air rivalry for much of this period with WMAK. WKDA then had its studios in the downtown Nashville Stahlman Building; a giant neon sign readily visible across the Cumberland River in East Nashville advertised this fact. As AM radio declined in popularity with music listeners in the 1970s, WKDA lost listenership, largely to its own FM sister, now WKDF, which then had an Album Rock format.
Some of the choices had connections to the show such as the show itself, Riverdance (first introduced to the world by the presenter) and, although not the case at the time, The Late Late Show, which Ryan presented the following month. Despite repeated reshuffles which have seen all other presenters shifted around, RTÉ never moved The Ryan Show from its traditional slot. After a brief period of decline in his audience, all of the recent JNLR figures showed a consistent and significant increase in his listenership - with his audience growing by almost 15% in the course of the past year (The Irish Times, 16 May 2008). The Green Day single "Know Your Enemy" received its first play on Irish radio on The Gerry Ryan Show on 16 April 2009.
At the same time, the Mass Communications magnet school program at Hale begins, including courses in radio, television, journalism, photography, and graphic arts. KNHC's format entering the 1980s featured light rock and pop music, with specialty shows in the evenings and on weekends, including jazz and classical. After yet another power increase to 3 kW, this time non-directional, in October 1981, the station overhauled its format the next year to R&B; and urban, prompting an increase in listenership. The "C89" name entered use in 1983. New technologies were also deployed; in 1984, a satellite dish was added to receive the urban- oriented Sheridan Broadcasting Networks (an antecedent to today's American Urban Radio Networks), and in 1987, a microwave studio-transmitter link was brought into use along with a new and more efficient antenna.
In 1990, General Manager Sheri Pizzi and Program Director George Reese landed funding to renovate the station's on-air and production studies and convert the entire station from LP to CD. They began a program to reach out to the local community that included shows broadcast by Lewiston/Auburn residents. As Summer 1992 approached General Manager Denis Howard and his fellow staff members announced an open invitation to residents of the greater Lewiston / Auburn area to attend the weekly station meetings. This was done to determine interest in (and the potential of) broadcasting throughout the summer months after most Bates students had returned home. This program increased the station's listenership in the twin cities as many WRBC genre directors are members of the L/A community and not Bates students.
His listening figures for this late night slot often drew audiences equal to those of many radio stations breakfast shows. The overall 'audience reach' of the programme drew in the region of 100,000 listeners per night, but a total listenership across the North West, West Yorkshire and North Wales often approached 500,000 listeners. He was well known for his straight-talking, uncompromising style, ability to argue his case stubbornly, often playing devil's advocate and he had a penchant for insulting callers with whom he disagreed or didn't like. He was also known for his on-air professed dislike of Liverpudlians ("scousers"), which perversely made him extremely popular with Liverpool listeners, as they felt he typified woollybacks – people from outside the city – and all that was wrong with them.
These were pirate radio stations run for the first time on a commercial basis with the critical support of Ireland's advertising industry based in Dublin. Radio Nova in Dublin, launched as a 'clutter free' radio station, was arguably the catalyst for a sea change in radio in Ireland. It was an era of unregulated freedom on air that produced what many view as perhaps the most exciting era for radio in Ireland. Professional market research conducted in the 1980s by reputable market research companies such as Lansdowne Research, Irish Marketing Surveys and Behaviours and Attitudes showed that these radio stations consistently lead RTE in terms of reach and market share. In Cork, Radio ERI had a consistent reach in excess of 50% with a reach of 63% recorded in 1986/87, an unprecedented listenership figure.
These critics point out that while a mechanism has been put in place to remove pirates within a week, little has been done to free up the procedures for starting a licensed radio station. They call for a more tolerant attitude towards benevolent pirates, until a framework is introduced to allow niche stations to be set up and run at low cost with less strict regulation. Many of the remaining stations are so-called "Border Blasters", which operate from just inside the Republic of Ireland, in counties Cavan, Donegal and Monaghan and broadcasting with directional antennas into Northern Ireland. These stations had been generally more tolerated by Comreg/ODTR/DOC due to the broadcasts being aimed across the border, and not taking advertising or listenership to a significant degree from stations licensed by the BCI.
In February 2019 the station rebranded from "Limerick's Live 95fm" to "Live 95", bringing a fresher look to the station and priding itself on being 'Limerick's Best Music Mix'. Live 95 is once again the most listened to radio station in Limerick City and County and has grown its audience over the last 12 months. The popularity of the radio station is clear as 65% or over 100,000 Limerick people tune-in to Live 95 weekly, according to the latest Ipsos/MRBI JNLR radio listenership figures, covering 12 months up to September 2019. Live 95's schedule includes Breakfast with Mark and Catriona, the three-hour Limerick Today Show with Joe Nash, Afternoons with Declan Copues, the Live Drive with Gary Connor and the Hit Mix with JP Dillon.
WLR FM or "WLR" (Waterford Local Radio), licensed since 1989 (WLR had previously been a pirate radio station) by the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, is the local radio station covering Waterford City and County. In addition to the official franchise area, the station also enjoys a considerable listenership in South County Kilkenny and East County Cork. WLR broadcasts on three frequencies: 95.1 MHz for most of the county (and a low- power transmitter also on 95.1 MHz for Waterford city centre), 97.5 MHz for Waterford city and much of East Waterford, and a low-power transmitter on 94.8 MHz to cover the East Waterford coast. On 10 October 2019 and again on October 2 2020, at the IMRO Radio Awards 2019 & 2020, WLR was named Ireland's Local Station of the Year two years in sucession.
In 1995, KWKW experimented with a talk format but could not fully commit to it because of contracts relating to the hosts of its music- driven shows. On August 11, 1997, KWKW left its Regional Mexican music format and became just the second Spanish-language all-talk station in the United States (KTNQ was the first). It was the only Spanish-language radio station in the United States to send a crew to cover the 1998 visit of Pope John Paul II to Cuba. In 2000, Arbitron surveys showed its listenership included the oldest and wealthiest Spanish speakers in the area; its programming, in addition to the Dodgers, included a live call-in show on immigration topics (Inmigración 1330) and hourly newscasts covering Mexican and Central American news.
MediaWorks commercial director Paul Hancox said the partnership would allow the company to take its brands and personalities into Tarana's markets, which would have otherwise been hard to reach. Writer Damien Venuto said the partnership made sense given the increase in new migrants to New Zealand since 1996, and the growing divide between broadcasters that are dedicated to ethnic minorities and those that are targeting a broad audience. Khan claimed the station's listenership was growing rapidly, with Hindi becoming the fourth most spoke language in the country and Indian becoming the fifth largest ethnic group. He said the radio market was rapidly changing, audiences were becoming more fragmented, and major radio companies were starting to recognise the value of commercially successful niche broadcasters with a loyal client base.
Many college radio stations in the U.S. also carry syndicated programming, such as that of National Public Radio and affiliated regional networks. Some radio stations have had student programming taken off the air by the administration in favor of other uses, such as WWGC and KTXT. The original WGST was the subject of an involuntary takeover which saw the state's board of regents sell the radio station as "surplus" property. A few radio stations have been added to the airwaves as the result of LPFM licensing in the U.S. One example of a Campus Radio station licensed as an LPFM is WIUX-LP of Indiana University, which is able to cover the entire city with its LPFM signal and is competitive in listenership numbers to nearby higher-powered commercial radio stations.
As AM broadcasting listenership declined in the late seventies, the station went through a series of format changes (including Adult Contemporary and Big Band) before settling on the oldies format. Classic Oldies 1340 AM WMID focuses on the history of music and radio when rock and roll was on AM radio. The mission of WMID is to re-create the old days when the memorable sound of rock & roll dominated the AM frequency, a sound no one who experienced has ever forgotten. WMID plays the songs and voices – the timeless music that is never left the rock and roll generation – all day and all night. The motto of the station is: "It’s the Music you grew up with on the Station you grew up with: AM 1340 Classic Oldies WMID".
Originally started in April 1969 employing various forms of pop and rock music that was aimed at a student listenership, WMOT ran a full-time jazz music format between 1982 and 2009, aimed at a somewhat larger, more adult audience. By the late 2000s, WMOT was one of only a handful of U.S. public radio stations employing a jazz format full-time, without filling much of the broadcast day with news and other genres. At various times in the station's history, it has broadcast MTSU football and basketball games as well; WMOT has broadcast those athletic contests mainly because of the lack of interest from commercial stations in the immediate Murfreesboro or Nashville markets in doing so. In 1995, the MTSU student government body started another college radio station, WMTS-FM, to serve the campus audience once served by WMOT.
CKAC had historically been a dominant station in its early years, with its listenership fuelled by popular programming such as a Sunday church broadcast, news coverage, as well as its broadcast rights to the Montreal Expos of Major League Baseball. In 1968, the station and La Presse was acquired by the Power Corporation of Canada, and CKAC was in turn sold to Telemedia the following year, becoming the flagship of a provincial network of stations. By the 1990s, the station had begun to lose its dominance due to competing stations and other factors, resulting in a decision by Telemedia to merge its radio network with competing chain Radiomutuel as Telemutuel, and CKAC becoming a joint venture of the two owners. Telemutuel's CJMS was shut down, and much of its programming and personalities were moved to CKAC.
On August 13, 2014, Radio Disney's general manager Phil Guerini announced plans to sell all but one of its remaining owned-and-operated stations on or before September 26, 2014, in order to focus more on the network's programming, co-branded events, and digital outlets. Listenership reports indicated that the majority of Radio Disney's audience listened to the network via satellite radio and other digital platforms, and only 18% via terrestrial AM/FM radio. KDIS remained operational to serve as the originating station for the Radio Disney network, while the remaining stations would continue carrying Radio Disney programming until their respective sales were completed. The last five Radio Disney owned- and-operated stations for sale were sold on September 15, 2015 to Salem Media Group (who was the largest purchaser of the stations) for $2.225 million.
The station had significant listenership in the Sioux Falls, South Dakota market during the 1990s, despite its transmitter tower being located over 50 miles away, as it was the de facto Top 40/CHR for Sioux Falls until KKLS-FM flipped to "Hot 104.7" in 1997. While KKCK continues to be a minor factor in the Sioux Falls market, the station primarily focuses on Marshall, Minnesota, the surrounding southwestern Minnesota region, and the nearby Brookings, South Dakota area. Unlike most Top 40/CHR formatted stations, KKCK had flexibility to introduce new music to listeners (including, but not limited to, Top 40 (CHR), Rhythmic, Dance Radio/EDM, and Mainstream Urban) as well as included genres such as indie, alternative, modern rock/active rock, and Hot AC/Modern AC including those genres' new music in its music mix.
Also involved in the deal are sister station WFER AM 1230 (which switched from adult standards to talk radio) and stations in Ashland, Park Falls, and Eagle River, Wisconsin. Coursolle has said he felt a country format would give WIKB-FM a stronger association with a long-running rodeo in Iron River. () However, with the format change came a shift from mainly locally originating programming (with the exception of Delilah nights) to Dial Global's True Country satellite feed, with the only locally originating programming being the station's "Shopping Show" hosted by Marian Volek. It has been reported that the station's listenership has declined significantly since the change; in addition, parts of the station's listening area can already receive country stations from Iron Mountain and other nearby cities, whereas the former "Breeze" was the only mainstream AC format serving the area.
WRDU's early format was AOR with some Hot AC artists such as Cyndi Lauper, Lionel Richie, and the Pointer Sisters added to the mix, probably to soften the sound a bit in anticipation of a duel with crosstown powerhouse WRAL (FM) an legendary AC station. But by the late 1980s, WRDU's Hot AC tunes were officially all gone and the station, bolstered by high listenership for its "Reynolds & Silva" morning show, dominated the Triangle ratings. Arguably, the pinnacle of WRDU's success came in the early 1990s when it won the Rolling Stone Magazine Reader's Poll as "best station of the year" for several straight years starting in 1989. Other airstaff members who worked at the station during the late 1980s and the early 1990s were Donna Reed (Nights); Eric Curry (News), Ron Phillips (Rock & Roll Classics), Tom Gongaware, Lizz Wall, and Paul Jackson.
WBZC began broadcasting in January 1995, and in 1996 was named the number one college radio station in America based on listenership, large coverage area in the nation's fourth-largest radio market and unique programming and content, the award was bestowed by the National Association of College Broadcasters in Providence Rhode Island. The station was a platform launching many careers of prominent broadcasters in the industry today. With the moving of the Pemberton campus of Burlington County College, the station ceased its regional programming and transmission on January 18, 2018. After being sold to Four Rivers Community Broadcasting Corporation in March 2019, WBZC came back on the air with Word FM and Rowan College's part of the radio station becoming a popular online music and information radio station known as RCBC Radio with a downloadable app heard worldwide on TuneIn and Amazon Alexa.
Radio France registered the trademark "Mouv'" and its new slogan "Mouv on it" with the French Intellectual property office on 23 December 2014.INPI registrationINPI registration On 2 February, Le Mouv' changed its name to become simply Mouv',Le Mouv' becomes Mouv' – Le FigaroLe Mouv loses its "Le" with a new musical format focused of hip-hop and urban culture. It was set the goal of reaching 1% share of national listening, (approximately 500,000 listeners) before December 2016. In Radio France's audit report of April 2015,"Radio France: Reasons for the crisis, the Path to Reform" – Cours des comptes it was revealed that the station never reached its listenership target share of 1.5%, last achieved in 2009; the average age of their listener rose from 28 to 34 and the cost of running the station almost doubled (from 4.5 million euro in 2004 to 8.7 million euro in 2013).
The station was relaunched on 9 November 1992 as the New DevonAir FM with the slogan "Devon's Better Music Station" - a change which coincided with the departure of several presenters as a result of a change in format. DevonAir's broadcast licence went up for renewal in 1993 with two further groups bidding to take over – Gemini Radio (owned by Somerset-based Orchard Media) and Wild West Radio. The Radio Authority requested more time to make a decision on the licence award - Wild West Radio was ruled out of the final shortlist before on 8 October 1993, the authority announced that Gemini would takeover DevonAir's licence from 1 January 1995. The winning franchise had proposed to broadcast two separate services on the FM and medium wave frequencies while DevonAir proposed to continue with a sole service, claiming it had maintained a listenership of around 80,000 listeners because of simultaneous broadcasting.
As such, the jockeys got continuous anonymous threats and local "bad press". After much discussion of the station's community relations problem, consideration of the rising popularity of mainstream country music among younger listeners, and falling ratings against market leader WZYP, station management decided to try a country format again in 1984, this time with an emphasis on current hits and a polished presentation. Collins and most of the other staff members were fired, a new program director was hired, and the station became successful, especially in the early 1990s when country listenership reached new heights all across the U.S. and it began selling advertising in the Huntsville area. From 1986-1996, WDRM had high ratings with the Bob and Elaine Morning Show, which would boast the highest ratings of any station in the country, gaining a 32 share of the audience in the ratings in 1992.
Dennis Miller, with no prior experience in radio, hosted a national conservative talk show from 2007 to 2015. There has been a relative dearth of new radio hosts launched into national syndication since the late 2000s, in part due to personnel declines at local talk stations; most new national hosts have jumped to talk radio from other media (examples include Dennis Miller, a stand-up comic; Fred Thompson, Herman Cain and Mike Huckabee, all former Republican Presidential candidates; the late Jerry Doyle, an actor; and Erick Erickson, a professional blogger). This has also opened up opportunities for less orthodox hosts than were common in the 1990s and 2000s; civil libertarian/nationalist Alex Jones, who spent most of the 2000s as a radio host heard primarily on shortwave, began securing syndication deals with mainstream conservative-talk radio stations during the presidency of Barack Obama. The genre has also lost ground in listenership.
The stations provided 24-hour music, with hourly news updates to Dublin City and County. The stations were raided only once, in 1983, leaving Nova off the air for less than a week and Sunshine a little longer because it waited for the District Court to order the return of its equipment confiscated in the raid. Pirate radio had a very noticeable impact on both listener figures and the advertising revenue of RTÉ, which could resort only to frequency jamming of the Nova and Sunshine MW & FM transmitters to try to reduce listenership. The Irish communications minister ordered the then chairman of RTÉ Fred O'Donovan to stop the illegal jamming campaign. Well-known names in radio associated with the superpirates Sunshine Radio, Radio Nova, Nova's sister stations, Magic 103, Q102 or Energy 103 include: now retired broadcasters Bob GallicoRadio Nova host Bob Gallico passes away Irish Examiner, 5 August 2013.
References to records or songs being "banned" in Ireland refer to one or more radio stations refusing to play the songs rather than any legislative ban, although before 1989 it may have been a moot point given that the only legal broadcasting stations in Ireland were those operated by state broadcaster RTÉ. In the 1930s there was even a short-lived airplay ban on an entire genre of music known as the "ban on Jazz" (with an exceptionally wide definition of what constituted "jazz"). Such bans only served to further increase listenership to foreign radio stations (such as Radio Luxembourg and the BBC) in Ireland, and led to the growth of Irish pirate radio. The ban by the Irish courts of the song "They never came home" by Christy Moore along with the original version of the album "Ordinary Man" on which it appeared has apparently never been overturned.
The station had significant listenership in the Sioux Falls, South Dakota market during the 1990s, despite its transmitter tower being located over 50 miles away, as it was the de facto Top 40/CHR for Sioux Falls until KKLS-FM flipped to "Hot 104.7" in 1997. While KKCK continues to be a minor factor in the Sioux Falls market, the station primarily focuses on Marshall, Minnesota, the surrounding southwestern Minnesota region, and the nearby Brookings, South Dakota area. Unlike most Top 40/CHR formatted stations, KKCK had flexibility to introduce new music to listeners (including, but not limited to, Top 40 (CHR), Rhythmic, Dance Radio/EDM, and Mainstream Urban) as well as included genres such as indie, alternative, modern rock/active rock, and Hot AC/Modern AC including those genres' new music in its music mix. The station also aired The Shag, a long running alternative rock program, on Sunday nights.
On October 13, 2014, after having dropped a low-rated all-news radio format five days prior in favor of all-Beyoncé music as a stunt, the Houston radio station KROI, owned by the urban-oriented radio group Radio One, launched a classic hip-hop format branded as "Boom 92". Radio One stated that the format was the first of its kind among major-market stations in the United States, and would serve to complement its other urban-oriented music stations in the market. Listenership of the new format saw a dramatic improvement over its previous all-news format: the following month, KROI improved its audience share of 0.9, 26th place among Houston stations, to 3.2, 14th place in the market. In response to its success, Radio One began to flip further stations to the Boom format and brand, including Philadelphia's WPHI-FM and Dallas's KSOC.
Rolling Stone's contributor Nick Catucci described the song as a "musical gymnastics routine." Upon reviewing I Got a Boy album for AllMusic, David Jefferies named "I Got a Boy" a highlight on the album. Time named "I Got a Boy" the 5th best song on their Top 10 Songs of the Year list, calling it a "pop phenomenon" that rivals the likes of One Direction and Katy Perry. In August 2014, Pitchfork Media's Jakob Dorof listed the song as part of his 20 Essential K-Pop Songs Lists, writing that "I Got a Boy" helped "prove the adventurousness of K-pop’s listenership," and believed it was "perhaps the most structurally variable mega-hit since 'Bohemian Rhapsody'." "I Got a Boy" became the fourth best-selling K-pop single in the United States in 2013, behind Psy's "Gangnam Style" and "Gentleman" and Big Bang's "Fantastic Baby".
In March 2000, when KQLI and sister stations KBOB, WXLP, KORB, and KJOC were sold to Cumulus Media, plans were already being formulated to revamp several of the company's radio stations, including 104.9 FM. The plan involved scrapping KQLI's AC format and moving KBOB's country format from 99.7 FM to 104.9 FM, as 99.7 FM flipped to Top 40/CHR as "B100". KBOB's modern country format, in use since it began in March 1994, remained the same until November 2001, when the station adopted a classic country format under the slogan "Great Country 105." Although "Great Country 105" had a loyal audience (as it played songs from artists such as George Jones and Merle Haggard), the ratings remained low. In March 2005, the station switched back to a modern country format, dubbing itself "The River 104.9," but listenership remained near the bottom of the Quad Cities market's ratings.
Due to its transmitter location on the top of Mount Washington, the station has one of the largest coverage areas in North America, reaching most of New Hampshire (except where WKNE comes in better), the Northeast Kingdom and other portions of Central and Northern Vermont (including Montpelier, Saint Johnsbury and Burlington), Western, Central and Southern Maine (including the Lewiston/Auburn, Augusta and Portland areas), Southern Quebec (including eastern exurbs of Montreal and the Sherbrooke/Estrie area), and small portions of northeast Massachusetts (the northernmost areas of Essex County). However, as the slogan shows, the station chooses to focus mainly on New Hampshire (specifically areas north of the Lakes Region and Maine (specifically the Western Maine Mountains tourism region and portions of greater Portland), while still getting some listenership in Estrie and the Northeast Kingdom (especially within the former, as it is the only country station audible there).
The station returned to KOOK-FM on November 4, 1985, as part of a format and call sign trade between the AM and FM stations that moved country to AM and the former contemporary hit radio format on KOOK to FM. The move failed to generate increased interest in the stations, and Miller left the management group and KOOK. After the FM station improved in listenership over the course of 1987, KOOK-KBIT was sold again in 1988, to Citadel Associates of Phoenix. Citadel wasted little time changing the format on KOOK-FM back to country; KOOK and KBIT began simulcasting as KCTR-AM-FM, retiring the KOOK call letters from Billings radio after having been used since 1951. In October 2007, a deal was reached for KCTR-FM to be acquired by GAP Broadcasting II LLC (Samuel Weller, president) from Clear Channel Communications as part of a 57 station deal with a total reported sale price of $74.78 million.
Most AM stations that did not migrate were stations serving indigenous communities, in large metropolitan areas or border regions where there was no room to migrate stations, or stations that were forced to become AM-FM combos in order to guarantee the continuity of radio service in parts of their coverage areas. However, even in the largest of markets, the decline of AM radio is such that some stations are no longer economically viable. XEDA-AM in Mexico City signed off in May 2015 after seeing listenership, commercial advertising income and federal government advertising all drop; its owner stated that "there's no market for AM". After initially authorizing it for stations within 320 kilometers of the United States-Mexico border in 2008,"Mexico Authorizes Transmission of HD Radio Broadcasting", Wireless News 27 May 2008 Cofetel adopted the HD Radio standard, as used in the United States, for digital radio transmissions nationwide in 2011.
With fiercely loyal listenership to BBC Radio Solent, direct competition from Original 106, Wave 105 and BBC Radio 2, Dream 107.2, Radio Hampshire (formerly SouthCity FM & The Saint) and a failed revival of Radio Victory (later 107.4 The Quay), Ocean was still a well-known brand and regularly featured among the better-performing local music stations. It was such a strong name that GCap Media bosses refused to re-brand the station as Century FM along usual radio network lines, and the station only broadcast special network shows. Ocean went digital in 2003, airing on DAB digital radio in South Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, along with sister stations Power FM and Capital Gold; competitors Wave 105, The Saint, BBC Radio Solent; and new stations Capital Disney and XFM. In May 2006, Ocean dropped the 'FM' from its previous 'Ocean FM' name to become just 'Ocean', simultaneously introducing a new set of logos and the tagline Hampshire's Greatest Hits.
DZWR was one of the pioneer FM stations in Baguio. It was formerly located at the St. Louis University Compound along A. Bonifacio St. until 2013, when it moved to its present location. Its old studios are now occupied by The Halfway Home for Boys, an SLU-owned Foundation. There were only three FM stations operating in the city that time, the others are "MRS 102.3 Most Requested Song Baguio" (now Radyo5 102.3 News FM Baguio) and "103.9 Smile Radio Baguio" (now 103.9 iFM Baguio). Magic 99.9 slogan then when it became No. 1 in listenership was "The Official Number One FM Radio Station in Baguio", while 103.9 Smile Radio Baguio puts its slogan at the same time as "The Only Number One FM Radio Station in Baguio", while on the other hand, MRS 102.3 Most Requested Song Baguio puts its slogan as "The Real Number One FM Station in Baguio" at the same time.
In the mid-1990s, another frequency of 103.3 was assigned to Brookville through the efforts of WPXZ licensee Renda Broadcasting, which had been looking to gain a foothold in the county seat. In order for the new station to go on the air, a series of channel shuffling would have to take place to accommodate the new frequency. The shuffling would enable WMKX to take WPXZ's frequency of 105.5 as its own, and with the move of that frequency northwest, it also enabled WMKX to petition the FCC for an effective radiated power increase from 3,000 to 25,000 watts (something that wasn't possible at 95.9 due to the presence of an FM station on 95.9 in Sharpsville, Pennsylvania, now WAKZ), thus taking the station from a local to more regional listenership base, allowing it to also serve the communities of Clarion and DuBois. With the right conditions, WMKX can be heard as far west as Butler, Pennsylvania.
To cater for increased demand, the 2011–2012 Committee revamped the schedule to re-adjust shows to one hour in length, opening up more opportunities to get involved. Shows increased from around 60 to 132 per week, with some pre-records during times in which the Students' Union was closed. Outside broadcasts during this year became more frequent, with a 24-hour broadcast from the Union foyer for RAGathon (the 24-hour RAG event) as well as the first live shows from Endcliffe village, Freshers' Fair and Ultimate Fair. Playout and listenership increased with the introduction of greater streaming opportunities and playout across campus with an agreement reached with New Leaf in the Students' Union The success of this year was recognised on several occasions; the station was awarded 'Best Working Committee' by the Students' Union, as well as receiving a nomination in the category of Best Student Radio Chart Show at the Student Radio Awards.
In the New York tri-state late night market, Vaughn Harper deejayed the quiet storm graveyard program for WBLS-FM which he developed with co-host Champaine in mid-1983. In 1993, Harper took ill and Champaine continued the program as Quiet Storm II. Following in the footsteps of KBLX, Lawrence Tanter of KUTE in Greater Los Angeles changed his station to an all- day quiet storm format from January 1984 until September 1987, playing "a hybrid that incorporates pop, jazz, fusion, international, and urban music". Addressing the misconception that quiet storm was only for blacks, Tanter said his listenership was 40% black, 40% white, and 20% other races. WLNR-FM in Chicago also changed in August 1985 to a 24-hour quiet storm program called "The Soft Touch", featuring more instrumental music and even straight-ahead jazz, a mix which sales manager Gregory Brown described as "not so laid-back" as other quiet storm shows.
The success of the song led to a signing with XL Recordings and M.I.A. requesting Dickens to work as her manager, beginning Dickens career in music industry management. M.I.A. wanted to sign to XL due to the label office's proximity to her house, and her respect for label owner Richard Russell and his pioneering involvement with the rave scene in 1990s London that the singer was a fan of. Uploading the song and others she had recorded onto music sharing website MySpace in June 2004 paralleled the file-sharing and fast propagation of "Galang" and "Sunshowers" around the Internet by word-of-mouth, increasing the songs' international listenership. This led to wide acclaim for the singer, who is hailed as one of the first artists to build a large fanbase exclusively via these channels and as someone who could be studied to reexamine the internet's impact on how listeners are exposed to new music.
In broadcasting, cancellation refers to when a radio or television program is abruptly ended by orders of the network or syndicator that distributes the show. Programs are typically cancelled for financial reasons; low viewership or listenership will lead to lower advertising or subscription revenue, prompting networks to replace it with another show with the potential to turn a larger profit. Likewise, a disproportionately high budget is potentially undesirable (this is somewhat complicated, as prominent programs have effects on the viewership of programs that air before and after; an expensive program may be worth the cost—a loss leader—if it increases the ratings of other shows on the network, while a profitable low-budget show may still be cancelled if it lowers the ratings of the surrounding programs). Other potential reasons for canceling television programs include unfavorable critical reviews, controversies involving the program's cast, conflicts among the show's staff members or to make room for new programming.
Due to the high listenership from people in their automobiles, Radio Caracas Radio, on 16 November 1969, began airing traffic reports made from the "Tango Tango Fox" airplane. In the beginning, the traffic reports were conducted by Alfredo José Mena and Efraín de la Cerda. Both these men hold the merit of being the first traffic reporters in Venezuela and having created a very peculiar narration style. The 1970s gave rise to new programs on Radio Caracas Radio: Venezuela Canta Así, hosted by Jorge Galvis; Por el Mundo de la Música, a program dedicated to the broadcast of classical music which was hosted by professor José Antonio Calcaño and aired between 1975 and 1978, a date in which the famous Venezuelan musicologist died; Venezuela en los 750, produced and narrated by William Guzmán; La Gran Consulta Popular, a program produced and hosted by Miguel Toro in which the general public could interrogate the invited guests through telephone calls.
His first decision was to lay-off all of the station's personalities, some of which were veterans (including Don Imus, Cousin Brucie, Norm N. Nite and Joe McCoy), replacing them with younger- sounding disc jockeys from Boston and medium markets. He also shifted the format from Adult Top 40 or Hot AC to a more aggressively current-based Top 40 format, with occasional nods to FM radio (such as commercial-free hours). As a result of this tweaking, the station was now playing artists such as Andy Gibb, KC & the Sunshine Band, Boston, Peter Frampton, Fleetwood Mac, the Eagles, Billy Joel, the Bee Gees, among others. However, listenership did not go up, but actually went down, and while some of the new air personalities would find success (Johnny Dark, Frank Reed, and Allen Beebe would be heard on the station well into the 1980s), others would not (Ellie Dylan, who replaced Imus in morning drive, would be gone within months).
In the United States, Westwood One carried the broadcast nationwide, with Kevin Harlan on play-by-play, Boomer Esiason and Mike Holmgren on color commentary, and sideline reports from Tony Boselli and James Lofton. The Westwood One broadcast was simulcast in Canada on TSN Radio. Each team's network flagship station carried the local feed: WBZ-FM for the Patriots (with Bob Socci and Scott Zolak announcing), and WZGC for the Falcons (with Wes Durham and Dave Archer announcing); under the league's contract with Westwood One, no other stations in the teams' usual radio networks were allowed to carry the local broadcast, and unlike in recent years when at least one of the two flagships was a clear-channel station, both the Patriots and Falcons use FM radio stations as their local flagships, limiting listenership to those within the local metropolitan areas or with access to those feeds via Sirius XM satellite radio or TuneIn Premium. Spanish-language radio rights are held by Entravision as part of a three-year agreement signed in 2015.
At the same time that the BBS was blazing a broadcasting trail now known as "network broadcasting", another government organization was building up its broadcast capability to rival, or in some instances, to complement, that of the BB. The National Media Production Center (NMPC) had acquired the facilities of the Voice of America in Malolos, Bulacan in 1965 and steadily brought the old complex up to standards by a steady overhaul, fine-tuning, and outright replacement of outmoded equipment and machines. The NMPC operated the Voice of the Philippines, VOP, on both medium wave-918 kHz (formerly at 920 kHz until 1978) and shortwave 9.810 mHz transmissions. In 1975, the NMPC obtained DWIM-FM. With this new station and some provincial stations that came under its wings earlier, the NMPC was a network and effectively covered a wide range of the Philippine listenership. In the 1970s, public broadcasting in the Philippines was thus represented by the BB and the NMPC and catered to the educational and cultural needs of its audiences while endeavoring to keep it entertained with fare from indigenous material.
Nick Grimshaw replaced Moyles as host of the breakfast show on 24 September 2012. Features include Call or Delete – a game carried on from his previous show on Radio 1, where celebrity guests choose to either prank call a contact on their phone or delete their number altogether. Other segments include The Nixtape – which sees Grimshaw select 30 minutes of party-oriented music before a DJ comes in to mix listener requests to close the week on Friday morinings, Happy Monday, a half-hour of uplifting songs on Monday mornings, Showquizness, an irreverent daily quiz based around pop culture, Happy Hardcore FM, which sees listeners phone into the show to scream over happy hardcore beats, and the daily Waking Up Song, which features celebrities encouraging listeners to get out of bed to the sound of Pharoahe Monch. Grimshaw's incarnation of the breakfast show has received strong critical reviews through his tenure but has polarised public opinion, which is reflected in the show's often fluctuating listening figures – in February 2015, the show had 5.9 million listeners, with a small increase in listenership of 100,000.
Following the launch of Schwartz Pro at the end of May 2019, Schwartz Media announced the launch of 7am, a daily new podcast.. 7am is hosted by award-winning investigative journalist and documentary host Ruby Jones and with editor Osman Faruqi. Available every weekday morning, the podcast followed a global trend of increasing engagement, popularity and adoption of podcasting as a new medium of media, having increased by 700,000 active Australian listeners since 2015 (an increase of 70). In May of 2020, 7am announced it would be partnering with Acast the world's largest podcast company for the distribution of it's growing listener base, with it now being available on all the major podcasting platforms being Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Google Podcasts as well as other smaller platforms such as Acast, Castbox, Overcast, Pocket Casts, Podbean and Stitcher. Following this announcement, Schwartz Media also celebrated a new audience listenership milestone, with an average of 45,000 Australian listens each day, or almost a quarter of a million listens weekly, placing it in the top five Australian podcasts.
In 2002, the company was bought for £23.5m by the media company Chrysalis, which trumpeted its purchase with the promise that it would lift the listenership to at least one million from around 700,000 (LBC had enjoyed an audience of more than two million in the early 1980s). Production was moved to Chrysalis's base in North Kensington, and the formatting of the two frequencies was swapped, the talk format moving to FM and the news format to AM. Mark Flanagan, the station's Managing Director, left Chrysalis in 2005 to set up a political consultancy company, and was replaced by David Lloyd. Some claimed he held no previous experience in the talk and chat radio genre, which overlooked the almost two years he spent with the Century FM brand in its Border TV ownership days where the station was a 50/50 music/talk service. He also introduced a podcasting service called LBC Plus, and a number of premium-rate promotional opportunities to replace falling advertising revenues experienced by the radio sector.
Feel the Fire received a positive review from AllMusic's Alex Henderson, who awarded the album three stars out of five, saying that it "made quite a splash within the heavy metal community and listenership", and "possessed all the blistering riffs and complete abandonment fans would learn to expect from Overkill." Henderson then finished his review, saying that Feel the Fire "solidified a loyal fan base that would grow steadily as the band expanded their sound and catalog through the mid- and late '80s. The classic original band lineup of Bobby "Blitz" Ellsworth on vocals, Bobby Gustafson on guitars, Rat Skates on drums, and bassist D.D. Verni sounds surprisingly accomplished on this major-label debut, giving tight performances and ultimately helping (along with fellow second- wave thrash bands like Flotsam and Jetsam and a myriad of Bay-Area metal outfits) define a generation of spastic, but impressive second wave of aggressive thrash metal." Feel the Fire did not initially reach the Billboard 200 charts or become a commercial success.
The station was created as the second iteration of heritage station WHBL's FM sister WWJR in 1993 as part of a large frequency swap in northeastern Wisconsin that also involved WKTT moving from 103.1 to 98.1, and WWJR from 97.7 to the new 93.7 frequency to facilitate the creation of Kaukauna-licensed WOGB on 103.1. For the first four years of 93.7's history as WWJR, it carried a basic adult contemporary format. In early 1997, the Walton family, the longtime owners of WHBL and WWJR, acquired the license for a new station licensed to Sheboygan Falls at 106.5, which would transmit, like WHBL and WWJR, from their Washington Avenue three-tower array site on Sheboygan's south side. The Waltons determined that Sheboygan County was underserved by the lack of a locally based country music station, and at that time country listenership in the area was mainly split several ways in all areas of the county among WKTT and WCUB to the north from Manitowoc County, and West Bend's WBWI-FM and WMIL-FM from Waukesha-Milwaukee to the south. On April 7, 1997, another frequency swap took place with the launch of 106.5.
URE possessed this - and relayed Capital overnight, and for early breakfast until 8am: this considerably drove its listenership, although it took a knock in 1990 when URE's main competition, BBC Radio 1, started broadcasting in FM - previously BBC Radio 1 had been at 1053 & 1089 kHz AM, and for some students switching from FM to AM and back was too complicated, as other Medium Wave stations later also found. Ironically, to celebrate the launch of Radio 1 in FM, Radio 1 toured East Anglia by Helicopter and touched down at the Wivenhoe Park campus: alas, they did so in the middle of the Easter Holidays, and the only people to greet them were members of URE. However the Student Union had become wary of the newly resurgent URE. In 1991 a band of Sabbatical Officers, aware that the main players in URE stood for elections - using it as a platform for their own agendas - demanded cutbacks in URE: the most severe being a move from URE's coveted studio complex above square three to a couple of rooms at the back of the union corridor.
The Packers Radio Network is a broadcast radio network and the official radio broadcaster of the Green Bay Packers football team. The network's flagship is the Good Karma Brands's WTMJ in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which has broadcast the games since November 24, 1929, and was the former flagship station of Journal Communications until the E. W. Scripps Company and Journal completed their broadcast merger and publishing spin-off on April 1, 2015 (Good Karma took over WTMJ's operations on November 1, 2018 upon Scripps' second withdrawal from radio).Packers, WTMJ Sign Long-Term Extension Of Radio Rights Agreement This is one of the few arrangements where a team's flagship radio station is not based in their home market and the local station serves as a network affiliate only, as WTMJ's signal to Green Bay and most of Wisconsin's population centers is city-grade; the rights for Packers games in the Green Bay area have bounced between Midwest Communications and Cumulus Media throughout the last few years, while stations carrying the games owned by Woodward Communications which nominally serve the Fox Cities exclusively have equally heavy listenership in Green Bay. Two internal Part 15 radio stations are operated within the area surrounding Lambeau Field during Packers home games.
The station recorded increases in listenership (weekly reach) in every JNLR survey published in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017 and again in the reports published in February and August 2019. The JNLR published on 24 October 2019 recorded the station's best ever results for daily reach in the station's 18-year history, recording 84,000 daily listeners. Sunshine 106.8 recorded a 7.1% market share in the same report (7a-7p All Adults). The station recorded an 8% daily reach of 'all adults' in the JNLR on 24 October 2019 (for the period Oct 2018 to Sep 2019). The station has 223,000 listeners per month (monthly reach of 21%) according to JNLR figures. The station currently has a weekly reach of 14% or 158,000 listeners and an 8.3% market share for 35+yr olds and 7.6% for 45+yr olds (7am-7pm) (IPSOS MRBI JNLR Oct 2018 - Sep 2019). Sunshine 106.8 is the number 1 music station for 35+ adults and 45+ adults in the Dublin City & County area based on Market Share in the period 7am to Midnight (Monday to Friday). Sunshine 106.8 is also ranked as the number 1 music station for all adults and number 2 overall in the Dublin City & County area (based on Market Share) in the period 7am to Midnight on Saturdays and Sundays.

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