Author: Bob Cavanaugh
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Why Townsquare’s streaming strategy makes no sense
Everyone in radio is trying to figure out the streaming world, but one company’s strategy makes no sense to me, and that is Townsquare. Townsquare is one of the largest radio companies in the country, yet its streaming strategy feels to me like a company stuck in some earlier era of internet radio. Why do…
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KBFF January 13, 2014
As promised last week, this is an aircheck that features the full top 8 at 8 countdown. I actually got distracted with another project, which is why this clip runs 84 minutes unscoped instead of the 60 or so I had intended.
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Looking ahead to 2025
Last week, we looked back at 2024, this week we’re looking ahead at 2025. What might happen in 2025? The big theme of 2024 was cuts, but I don’t think we will see as many in 2025. In a story I saw a month or so ago about iHeart’s debt restructuring, a slight increase in…
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KBFF May 5, 2013
We are in what is now my home market for the next six weeks, as we listen to Live 95.5. Although I’ve posted airchecks recorded from Global Tuners on this site before now, this is the first one I actually recorded, as it was done on the day I signed up for the account, May…
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Looking back at 2024
It’s the time of year to look back on the year that was, so that’s what we’re doing this week, looking back at 2024. The single biggest story of the year was the bankruptcy of Audacy. With that complete, it means that all the major radio companies have gone bankrupt in the last 14 years,…
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The third new market in a row
That market is Charlotte, NC. This is the only aircheck I have from that market, recorded October 14, 2015. I obtained this clip in a trade with my then only trading partner Bob in Ohio, who likely recorded this in the Charlotte airport on his way back from New Orleans. He sent me a few…
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My thoughts on Christmas programming in 2024
This was originally going to be a post comparing radio’s Christmas selection to that of other streaming and music options, but the one station I was going to use appears to be dead, despite still showing up on the Radio Pup app, so I don’t have a sample hour of that station. From what I…
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The City I Wasn’t In This Summer
Why do I title my post this? Because it refers to Jacksonville, Florida, where the national convention of the American Council of the Blind was held this summer. It’s also a new market to the site, the second one in as many weeks. This clip was recorded about two and a half years before I…
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WSNY June 9, 2015
It’s a new market to the site this week, Columbus, Ohio. This is the first of many airchecks that I received from my first trading partner, though some of the others I’ve already posted I have also received in trades. This one is of WSNY from Columbus, and I don’t remember now what I traded…
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WPST July 17, 2015
Sorry this post is late. I’m not sure how updating slipped my mind on Friday, I didn’t even do any holiday shopping. I usually don’t start until after my birthday, which is tomorrow. I was going to post yesterday, but the defining event of that day was upgrading my phone, and by the time I…