Author: Bob Cavanaugh
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KKNU May 10, 2013
Sorry this post is so late in the day, as I expected I had a busy day today. This aircheck comes from Eugene, and it is of the country station in that market, KKNU. Many of the airchecks from this market at around this time period exist because I was only going for the legal…
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KFAT May 4, 2017
Today is another one of those airchecks I was trying to get because to my knowledge, there weren’t, and still aren’t, that many airchecks of it out there. This is KFAT from Anchorage, doing rhythmic CHR, which they’ve been doing for many years now. Unfortunately, it appears they’ve gone jockless in recent years, but they…
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KNCU February 6, 2021
Sorry this aircheck is so late, I was in Seattle for a couple days and am catching up on things today. As I said last week, we’re taking a listen to two very different country stations over the next couple weeks, this being the second part of that. This is Lincoln County, Oregon’s U92, 92.7…
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WXTU February 25, 2015
Today and next week, we take a listen to two country stations. That’s about the only thing these stations have in common though. This week, it’s Philadelphia’s heritage WXTU. I don’t remember why I recorded this, but it was probably because the legal featured in this clip was one of my favorites in the country…
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WINC January 9, 2017
We’re spending a couple weeks on the east coast, first going to Winchester, VA where we take a listen to heritage WINC. This station had been on 92.5 for many years, that frequency dating back to 1947. In 2020, that frequency was sold and the format moved to two other signals in the market. I…
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Nearly a year later, where does AI on the radio stand?
In November 2022, CHATGPT burst onto the scene, fundamentally changing the national conversation around AI. Just three months later, Futuri launched a radio specific AI, RADIOGPT, later revamped as AudioAI. It was a year ago this month that Alpha Media made headlines when it launched an AI version of Live 95.5 KBFF/Portland midday host, Ashley…
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KSYN June 5, 2024
This aircheck is in much better shape than the one I posted last week, as I didn’t have any screen reader anything to worry about. I was actually listening to the one I posted last week the other day and outside of the notification I didn’t want, it actually sounds okay. This week, we hear…
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Comparison, WRKU and WJZQ
Interestingly, the column from Shawn Ross is about the throwback format in bigger markets this week, as he profiles Chicago’s WSHE and Miami’s WPOW. I’ve been planning to profile WJZQ/Traverse City, MI and WRKU/Door County, WI for a couple months now. I finally did the comparison listen last week. WJZQ transitioned from CHR last October…
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What needs to be fixed about spot load
One of the things that industry writer Shawn Ross talks about a lot when he writes about how to keep radio relevant today is radio’s spot load and how it needs to be fixed. I was talking with my friend about something else that Shawn Ross talks about a lot, and that is the streaming…