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Fresh Listen, KZFN/Moscow, ID
Last week, I wrote a rather pointed commentary about Inland Northwest Broadcasting’s KZFN, Z-Fun 106 Moscow, ID. This week, let’s take a fresh listen to the station. I first heard KZFN on an orchestra trip to the University of Idaho in 2009. At the time, I thought the CHR format had to be big and…
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What’s the strategy with Townsquare’s national streaming channels?
In last week’s commentary, I focused on the overall streaming experience of Townsquare’s stations on various platforms. This week, let’s drill down to specific national stations, and why their programming strategy doesn’t make sense either. Launched just before Christmas 2012, the only promotion these stations ever got was in the update description for Radio Pup.…
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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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How my understanding of radio programming has shaped my concept automation
This is a commentary I have been meaning to write for quite a while, but I’ve been pretty busy the last month, so haven’t done it yet. Over the years, I’ve been playing with the concept of developing my own radio automation system. This concept has evolved over the years. How it has done so…
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Radio’s Jock Breaks
A recent commentary by industry writer Shawn Ross has me thinking about my own opinions about how much DJs should talk. Ross has talked about the content of these breaks more often than how many exist, and in listening to the national programming services, I hear a lot of the stuff he is so against.…
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In today’s streaming world, a unique branding is more important than ever
In the age of the internet, having a unique branding is more important than ever. With smart speakers, it’s easy enough to get two stations confused, and you may get a station you don’t want. There are numerous examples of this that I can think of when my friend who has a smart speaker and…
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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…
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Is it possible for free automation to sound good?
In the past few years, I’ve become more interested in the technical side of radio. No, I don’t want to be an engineer, but I’ve become interested in how radio automation systems work, and from a listener’s standpoint, what’s necessary or not. I’ll be comparing two systems today, both of which can be downloaded free…
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Is radio in a better position today than it was in the past?
This post appears to have been written in early November of 2018 for the Radio crytic, but never got posted up there. It seems to have held up well in the subsequent five and a half years, so with a few corrections, here it is. Also of note, there may only be one more post…
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Questions I have surrounding the future of radio formats
We’re actually already getting down to the end of the posts I want to keep from the Radio Crytic. Part of the reason this post is late is because I didn’t really have a plan as to what I wanted to post today, so this evening I sat down to take a look at what…